so I have inattentive type ADHD (unmedicated bc all the meds had horrible side effects) and Ive been trying audiobooks but i honestly feel so disheartened bc idk if it's an ADHD thing but having an audiobook playing makes me so exhausted. for some reason, trying to process auditory input is so exhausting and I was just wondering if anyone else experiences this.

it's not just my mind wandering and missing out entire chunks of important plot scenes and information (which is already a big issue). but also even when I'm trying to focus, or even when I play the audiobook at a faster speed as others have suggested, it doesn't work and I become so fatigued just from the amount of energy needed to process spoken words.

I've never been able to actually follow along with an audiobook, it's just so hard to process things this way, and it makes me feel so down and idek why i struggle so much to process auditory input. I've tried so many times, with so many different audiobooks and narrators, and i think I have to give up on audiobooks once and for all.

but I feel like I often hear others with ADHD talk about how audiobooks actually help them process books better or get through a book faster. does anyone else with ADHD/neurodivergence experience this? 😔

I've seen a few headlines and read a few articles about mass market paperbacks going extinct, and frankly i'm sad! I feel like there's an ideal size for a book, and a lot of the hardcovers are too big in my opinion (plus i'm not a huge fan of hardcovers in general), and trade paperbacks are sort of a hit or miss. Plus, they've always been more affordable. Apparently ebooks have taken over the market that was previously held by the mass market paperbacks. Anyways.. does anyone else care about this? I don't really know that much about publishing but I feel a bit 😦 about the news..!