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Relevant Lemmy communities:

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

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Do you also find that speech/video is only bearable at 1.25x-1.5x speed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm over 40 and slowing down with age, so I do 1.3 for most podcasts. I usually leave video at 1X but I'm generally doing something else at the same time like folding laundry or gaming.

Honestly, getting old sucks. Like, I used to play Lemmings a lot and hum the theme song to myself constantly. But I hadn't played the game in 20 years. I heard the song recently, and the tempo sounded twice as fast as I remembered, so much that I fired up emulators and whatnot to confirm... yes, that's really how fast the song is.

The song didn't get faster, I got slower.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Oh to be 40 again. Time perception does change (scientific fact I believe) but cognition usually doesn't decline until much older than either of us, unless dementia is a factor.