Questions: If you could read well during your undergrad, but decades later now cannot, what happened in between those times? Did you read regularly? Is this

Questions: If you could read well during your undergrad, but decades later now cannot, what happened in between those times? Did you read regularly? Is this simply a bad case of skill fade masquerading as a medical issue? Are there types of reading that are not so difficult? Can you read articles on your phone or screen without these issues? Do you remember material that you don't directly read such as an audio lectures? If you are reading in a new field, you might not be used to actually reading every letter of a word. If you only read in a narrow subject matter then your mind can memorize word shapes rather than reading through every letter. When you then switch to a new field with unfamiliar words things slow down as you downshift into letter-by-letter reading. But they will speed up again once you get a grip on those new words. (This is a common law student complaint. The children of lawyers who grew up around words like "constitutionality", "relevancy" or "admissibility" temporarily seem to be faster readers because their brains have already memorized those word shapes. By second year this advantage disappears.)