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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 61 points 10 months ago

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[-] snor10@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Is this what it's like to have a stroke?

[-] BigMoe@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago

Oh thank goodness I thought it was just me. When I read that I thought 'dang covid messed me up'

Been a few years since having covid, but my wife and I both feel like we lost some memory and brain power from it, even though we were both vaccinated and had less evere symptoms than others.

In our 30s by the way

[-] cubedsteaks 14 points 10 months ago

nah its a copypasta internet meme from waaay back in the day. Probably like around 2004.

[-] jungle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Shhh! Don't tell them my age!

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on where really.

[-] davidalso@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

This☝️ so true

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