I’m by no means unable to read or comprehend text, I’m smart enough for life and people often compliment my intellect. Big tickets on myself I know.
However when it comes to reading anything it often takes me twice as long, just a meme with text or anything.
If I don’t concentrate on it I miss words or like an Ai hallucination I put random words into the sentence or muddle them around making things often hilarious for myself until I re read the text to get the actual meaning.
Same, when I read I ‘hear’ it as a voice in my head. And yeah, I can’t imagine enjoying reading without hearing that intonation and emphasis.
I can ‘skim read’ if I need to find something in an article, but that’s like doing a word search of something, glancing at paragraphs and looking for specific key words. It’s not enjoyable and it doesn’t make me think deeply about the text, even if I could probably summarise the content of article to someone afterwards.