Except nobody was making excuses not to read and learn from native content, and sometimes when people say things are difficult for them, that means those things are actually difficult for them, more so than for others. Nobody’s claiming it’s easy for others either, for that matter. But there’s a difference between “it’s a chore but I have to just push through it” and “my brain is literally not letting me do this.” Or to form a more intuitive example, running a marathon isn’t easy for anyone but it’s a damn sight harder with a broken leg.
What the point is is that learning from native materials is (or can be) different with ADHD. And I fail to see how that’s in any way an excuse.
What the trap is is not reading itself, it’s the idea that it is the two-step process you drew up. It’s not. Each of those steps consists of a bunch of others, each of which takes executive function and offers yet another opportunity to get distracted, and that’s just the part before you’ve even done a single review. What exactly is the problem with acknowledging that ADHD gets in the way of that specific process, and that maybe a different, simpler process is probably more effective for us, allowing us to learn more from native materials, not less?