Episode: 4681
Title: My Disabilities
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4681/hpr4681.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:16:42 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4681, for 2026-07-13
Today's show is entitled, "My Disabilities"
The host is Antoine and the duration is 00:04:06
The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "(reading a story with more than two characters)"
Hello and to one, true HPR.
As a child, I was so fond of reading what I saw as beautiful, even when I above the understanding.
The perception of beauty came mainly from the cover and the fonts used, same thing today,
or from the place the book occupied on my father's shelf.
One of them was Twarak.
Furthermore, I took this classic from the home library, only to glance at the first page
with no interest.
It was only decades later, some years ago, that I saw the title again and read with pleasure
and no difficulties.
Not a hard read, even to a 12 year old, probably only the argument, the plot, didn't
catch me by them.
Anyway, I was attracted to the book, as if simply wanting to read it made me part of the classic
the intellectual.
I have less of this today.
Not the inability to read a lot of books, but the urge to be a consumer of certain
cultural product, maybe due to not greeting to build a personal image, content without
exposition.
Still, sometimes wanting to consume a piece of media and being unable to.
I wanted a story of robots, the book I thought was not available, so I bought one, one
of scientific fiction.
Some how it attracted me when I flipped the few pages of planet of exile at the bookstore.
An item that could lead me to a travel outside of this place, I'm scape.
At home, I immediately saw, I couldn't grasp it.
There were too many characters, too many equals to more than two in the first page, especially
when another atmosphere is invoked and new physics to grasp.
Too much information can't retain the minimum necessary in the way to the second, third,
fifth page by when more is being presented.
This was always a disability of mine focused on a little tiny thing, intensely for some
time, all lost in some weeks or months.
I know it happens to me because people are able to remember the names of the cards of the
movie cards.
Not an incredible feat for them, maybe they haven't paid attention, nor actively tried
to remember, only did, and something strange to me.
It was decided to register this today, because when I saw myself unable to read the Legans
book, I got nervous.
I've already been forgetting more, mutimately, take, confuses, steps, and now I can't
center on a book, what's happening?
But then, I took a breath.
Much can be going way too wrong, from current circumstances outside an inside, but your
limited comprehension of the road, and it's art, is very part of you.
This trace or frailty of her character is not your brain rotting, now, it's part of what
you have been since always.
Thank you.
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