As a kid/teen, I read a lot - and I mean a *lot*; for example I got through nearly 1 book from the Sword of Truth series *per day*. I built a contraption to let me read while showering; I read in the car, by the moonlight, I snuck books under the glass dining table at dinner. 1/
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I don't know how my brain managed to figure out which words to read and which ones not to at that significant a scale. I can't do this anymore; my reading speed has dropped a few hundred wpm. There's still some chunking, but it doesn't feel the same.
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Sounds a lot like Hyperlexia... some believe our ability to encode info in the youthful way u describe may be hindered by the adaptive manner in which old brains accrue “priors” (associations) that may prevent/obscure the rapid intake of these “chunks”https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia
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Just as it would be with reading comprehension, the same would be w/ general language acquisition. After decasdes of associative patterning, the brains ability to imprint new language data dips purely bc a learned/imprinted mind experiences conflicting associations
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I still read like this. I'm 63. I don't read as much as I used to (even in my 50s, I was reading a book a day). Now I read a book every couple of weeks. Not quite sure what changed, but I don't seem to need it like I used to.
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