Losing The Ability to Read While Stressed

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I have this, too. I normally read very fast. But when I'm stressed or disinterested, I tend to become even faster and faster until my brain reads the words, but doesn't interpret them anymore. So I might read an entire page in a few seconds, but don't remember anything, and have to read it again and again.

Not really, but I do lose the ability to speak.

I can't think straight or focus well on anything when I'm stressed. Reading is especially difficult, and especially if it's complex reading material. One thing I've always hated is to be presented with an agreement to sign when there's a lot else going on or even just someone waiting for me to read and sign it. I want to know what I'm signing, and I have a lot of trouble in those situations.

I'm glad it helped. I actually understood I was autistic by way of understanding my shutdowns. I was having several a week (my usual is closer to 2-3 full shutdowns/week) and I saw a post on another forum by pensieve describing them, so that was essentially my starting point, at least the second time I investigated the possibility

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It explains a lot. I noticed when I experienced full shutdowns, but I never considered partial shutdowns to be responsible for some of my issues. Particularly loss/partial loss of vision & language.

So, autism, my life explained.[/quote]

Indeed. My partial shutdowns are harder to nail down than my full shutdowns. The full shutdowns are unambiguous, but without understanding how individual abilities can go off and on I had no framework to explain my successive burnouts as well as the sense I had that I was less "able" after each major burnout.

I'm glad it helped you.

When I'm particularly stressed, my mind feels like a container of condensed gas particles that are heated up to a high temperature. The particles are haphazardly bouncing all over the place until the container cools off, expands, and the particles settle down. Reading in such a state is virtually impossible.