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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t read books. My mom was a school librarian and I was a total bookworm through high school. Engineering undergrad broke my brain. The summer after college I lived with an English MA student and tried to read books because I was living in a house full of them. My reading speed was crazy slow after reading mostly math and engineering textbooks for years. I have ADHD and I was no longer able to hyper fixate on books to finish them. 
I’m ok. I read the NYT daily and I enjoy long form journalism in the New Yorker and The Atlantic. I listen to a lot of podcasts. I no longer think it’s a personal failure that I don’t read novel length fiction unless I am reading to / with my kids.

I am an avid runner - outdoors, all seasons. It’s my escape and main form of stress relief. I do it alone and with friends - like a book club! I don’t go around bemoaning how most Americans don’t run a single mile each year. “Don’t they know what they are missing? They must be such boring, lazy people!”. I understand that other people get physical activity from other sports, walking, gardening, doing home improvement projects, etc. [/quote]

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