As a child I would read all the time. I got Jaqueline Wilson’s “The Cat Mummy” for Christmas one year, went upstairs to read, finished it and everyone was like “Where have you been?” 🥹 In secondary school, when Borders still existed, I accidentally stumbled across “Brass” by Helen Walsh which at the time for me was basically offline, word porn. Anyway, as I got older I just stopped buying books. I’m now 33 and during the entirety of my twenties the only thing I remember reading was His Dark Materials (reread) in preparation for the new book. Read both of those and then last year someone introduced me to Richard Osman’s “Thursday Murder Club”… That was it. I was obsessed with these murder solving pensioners and I’m up to date on all 4 books. Now at 33, I’m actually gutted if at any point I don’t have a book to read. I’m currently addicted to Lynda La Plante’s “Tennison” series. Finished “Hidden Killers” in 3 days and I’m so excited I’ve got 2 days off work and my friend’s kids are away so I can start “Good Friday” in peace 😂 Any other neurospicies just end up hyperfocusing on books and not getting life done?
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Worse is having to re-read sentences over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over because they don’t stick and my mind wanders. I read a LOT of books, but it took years of patiently sticking with it to get to a point where I could live with the distraction and work through it.
Until I got diagnosed when I was in my 30s, reading was the only time my thoughts weren’t running and jumping. I read a lot and all the time. I wouldn’t call it an addiction as it hasn’t had any negative impact on me or interfered with my relationships.
I love listening to books :) especially during hobbies and chores. Helps my mind from wandering too much.
I read anything I could get my hands on as a kid. And am always looking for new things to read. I don’t consider it an addiction per se but I definitely feel compelled to read anything and everything I see. But it has been only a positive for me. I do get lost in books and sometimes forget to do (important) things but I’ve learned so many interesting things. I have adhd, never occurred to me that this could be related!