Prime Junta
RPGCodex' Little BRO
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Nobody I know finds it easy to read stuff that doesn't interest them. I read ridiculously quickly -- easily a thousand pages a day, assuming I don't have anything else to do -- but I remember exam books that felt like forty years in the wilderness.
I don't think your problem is an inability to read, Damian. It's a lack of motivation to read. You're not really, genuinely motivated to explore information about, say, the origins of the universe, and therefore you find any text about it so tedious that you give up after a screenful or so. That's not schizophrenia, it's entirely normal -- people don't like to read about stuff that doesn't interest them.
It's up to you to decide what you want to do about this. You could either give up on the topic altogether and get into something that does genuinely interest and motivate you (and, consequently, give up these futile attempts to defend creationism), you could attempt to somehow discover a genuine interest in science, or you could muddle on as you do and keep hitting this same wall. Hiding behind your diagnosis every time the going gets tough isn't really your best option, IMO -- you *are* trying to deal with your schizophrenia, not use it as an excuse. Right?
I don't think your problem is an inability to read, Damian. It's a lack of motivation to read. You're not really, genuinely motivated to explore information about, say, the origins of the universe, and therefore you find any text about it so tedious that you give up after a screenful or so. That's not schizophrenia, it's entirely normal -- people don't like to read about stuff that doesn't interest them.
It's up to you to decide what you want to do about this. You could either give up on the topic altogether and get into something that does genuinely interest and motivate you (and, consequently, give up these futile attempts to defend creationism), you could attempt to somehow discover a genuine interest in science, or you could muddle on as you do and keep hitting this same wall. Hiding behind your diagnosis every time the going gets tough isn't really your best option, IMO -- you *are* trying to deal with your schizophrenia, not use it as an excuse. Right?
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