ADHD and Reading! Last Thursday was World Book Day &
if you know Lindzi, you'll know she's definitely a book worm! In the most beautiful of ways!
Writing and reading are what she does to have fun, create, express herself and self-soothe! While I (Steph) have many books which I have enjoyed reading and haven't been able to put down, I prefer visually digesting information, whether it's fact or fiction, and that's because it's easier for me.
I know I'm not alone in reading a whole page to realise you didn't actually read any of it, repeat x7 and have to put it down. Where you go to focus on a word and it melts into the rest of the page. I don't believe Lindzi is unfamiliar with this experience, despite enjoying a good read. So maybe our resident teacher can enlighten us with some tips for developing a regular reading habit which we know is good for us?!
Obviously, we wouldn't be able to talk about reading without sharing some of our fave books! We will also be covering some recent events such as the tragic Willy Wonka Experience, the tragic loss of a Japanese artist and icon, and Steph confirms the whereabouts of Kate Middleton!
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Good evening what was that what did you hear something it might be the computer she's been working over time converting the odd jobs um the reason odd jobs wasn't hasn't been uploaded yet is I managed to download it from Instagram mhm hi guys and it downloaded in some strange format so I finally
Managed to convert it but it's taken a lot of engine power on my computer so she's loud right now it reminds me of a a meme flashed up on my memories this morning and it said uh I didn't want to work 9: to 5 so I
Started my own business and now I work 247 I was like wow yeah that is the truth it really got me thinking like because I really didn't want the normal 95 but I do work 247 for no money other than the love of it so what what was I
Thinking why can't I just confirm like normal person is why I'm not going to get too into politics but that is why I believe in the political Vision that I do because people shouldn't just work for money people aren't necessarily always motivated by money sure it helps
But if you already had that you'd be able to make you know what you're doing right now way easier yeah yeah and you'd be able to help yeah I'd still be doing what I was doing and helping people because that is the goal of this the reason it hasn't launched super far
Because we're ready to be famous guys we just need more people to know about us is that people haven't heard about us yet and just by the power of the people rather than the power of the profit exactly and if we didn't have to work or you know our lives were solely focused
On this we could Market the hell out of this yeah I was I was feeling that a little bit this week because the last literally three videos now of just not done as well as and we did in the hope that would get us further on the algorithm it seems to
Have done the opposite we getting far less we're getting more views of the other videos but less impact on the videos as they go out weekly so I was I I've I've been getting a little bit disheartened I'm not going to lie shed a few ti no I didn't actually tip but I
Was like what is going on so I went in and I've looked at both of there's two streams that stand out that just aren't doing as well the live streams the videos tend to do a little different anyway so the ones we think are going to do well
Don't in both of them there is mentions of something that I'm not going to say right now tell me after like I tell you after so you think that might have been Shadow ban slightly because of the topic yeah and if you don't preface these sorts of
Topics with a warning or you don't put on stream like I disavow the words of this idiot whoever's talking if I'm showing something that isn't it's uh so yeah that might be my we're usually quite good at um at avoiding trying to avoid maybe that's why we're not going anywhere we've got
Too many chins well not enough I've got so many chins to get famous there space for all of us doing just lost it now I'm G to screenshot those and they will be your birthday no it's usually me that gets like the violations in it that paused when it
Pauses it's always my face like I've got the best one of you from like the first thing we filmed and you're just laughing and I've watched the whole thing I don't remember you was talking to you and it you're just like thing since filming ourselves realizing I knew I had one of those
Faces that did lots of Expressions anyway but yeah the extent of it I often got told that like oh God your face is so expression I didn't realize what they meant is I've got really like thin lips that's kind of like thing about me I've always wanted bigger lips but I'm kind
Of okay with them they'll come fashion soon big lips have been in fashion for so long that it's got to be little one me I'm just waiting yeah I'm waiting but they move in like a they get stretched they get in like a and am of times I
Look at my mouth I'm like what is wrong with my mouth it looks like I'm chewing on something and uh but yeah that's why I'm going to get rid of actually being able to see that quite soon quite soon until talking about hey Sarah tomline Queen hello in
The chat shout out in the chat are you um having crazy weather again tonight because it is windy out there where we are my car about went over several Lanes coming over this bridge I saw some horrific road rage on the way here cuz you know where the traffic um the road
Works are on on the way into the village there was a merge lane it's like there's four lanes at the minute merging down to one and there was three car pressed together determined not to let some poor s merge I mean that's what we're meant to be doing guys that's why there's so
Much traffic if we all just merged one by one and just kept the flow going instead of like playing this stupid cat and MK game oh my goodness it only annoys me because just feel like you could show these people up by like what are you doing but there's never that opportunity
To kind you know they just Bez off and that's the like you know they give you the middle finger and they think they're the da and that's the end of that that's that's when you take the lesson to yourself and it like ah I can't control anyone but myself sometimes that's
Enraging that's I say to them like what is your problem like you're meant to be letting people merge in you absolute [Â __Â ] that's why I take a lot of um a lot of people say hand it over to God I more just rest on faith that I know that
There is going to be haror down the road they might have done that right now but they are going to be so late to something that it costs them so much money money that their girlfriend breaks up with them it's tfold for them so I'm just like off you speed
IED student I think people would be better people if Karma was instant and I know sometimes it is but it's very rare isn't it it's more of a kind of cycle and a process and but or if it was obvious like if they knew then that they
Spilled their drink down them the next day because they didn't let that guy merge when it happens it's so sweet it's right there take it more seriously if it was a bit more if you don't think I'm taking that opportunity when you've been an idiot and karma's just happened to you to be
Go see I need to you to to make the connection I'll join them dots for you right there like oh maybe it's because you talk to me like an idiot it is windy there too maybe the wind because the windy weather has always always been renowned for causing
Behavior problems so I'm like maybe that's why there was a load of rage on the road I I'm so intrigued I need to learn more about this wind and cuz it's a very like new understanding well this is something that when I first started working in education over 10 years ago
Now like getting on for like 13 years ago when I started that first job they used they they used to record the weather on the behavior forms but they'd stopped doing it by the time I started there right so it's it was a connection made a long long time ago that the
Weather will always affect the behavior so if I wake up and it's windy I know we're in for a kind of traumatic turmoil kind of chaotic day okay I've Googled the live at I've tried to find if there's any solid research well there's got to be because people governments or
Whatever plan like mass or they can uh predict like how the public will act on like you know the hottest day of the year they know that this will be on will need a lot of like consumption people will be buying a lot of ice people be
Buying a lot of ice cream like Heat's always you know that it's going to be making people angry there's idiots on the road there might be a higher chance of people drinking and driving like they take these things into account in all other mem of Life sense that just made
Me giggle I don't want to swear on this early into the stream it rhymes with bank goes with wday says Wednesday Wonka which is very fitting Wonka W oh Will Wonka wday welcome do you want to talk about the intro or do you want to bring it on
The other side of the intro do you know what I've got a small clip just to get you excited for the it's just a small little thing that I want to show you guys if you have this for the Wily WKA I know which bit this is as well I have
Been the person amongst my friendship group that's like have you heard this story have you seen all the footage it's hilarious I get it it's old if you hav't already heard about this weeks ago I'm sorry we'll be covering it really briefly I promise gypsy Rose Blanchard
Like I'd never heard of that and people were all over it you know stay tuned to where uh Kate Middleton is hiding as well I do know I'll let you know at the end resp responsible for editing our photo don't skip forward as well honestly you'll get it when you get
It um but yeah what do you think of this it's the end why is it be inv you don't agree you're the problem that we're fting open up your mind stand up become righteous why why is it like this instead of ha Should Be Love we invite in you don't agree then
You're the problem that we F open up your mind become me out she knew she knew to check me thank god um no but I yeah I'm tring myself I'm this technophobe is learning so I don't know if you saw that video before we cut to the intro well
First the outro and then the intro cuz I had to try and figure out what was going on there uh um that was a creature called the unknown and what do you mean what are you looking at me like that for you've heard of wily Wonker yeah it's a a
Well-known story book that we've known since we were children that our parents have known since they were children is this the Mandela effect is this part of the book that we just that's now added in to our memory you may remember him as what was his name guy that stole it's a
Completely different character obviously the IP is very expensive and you cannot just take Wily Wonka which is why hi it is called oh is that what it's actually called Willie McDuff wiie mcdu let's get us reacting for it want to see our beautiful faces as it happens Willie McDuff the Willy's chocolate
Experience again if you haven't heard about this already I'm very sorry I mean if you have I'm sorry if you haven't step in it should be Willie Bonkers chocolate experience you knowly won it's absolutely insane so on the oh I forgot what date it was now but
At the start of this month I believe the first she she started well guys she started well I've got the inform here hopefully Um okay so I'm an idiot I didn't find few weeks ago um that was the actual website wow no wonder so people pay oh it does say March the 1 in the top Corner that's where you brought that from so this is the archived web this is just like the
And you can see what web pages look like before they've been taken down or edited or whatever I mean that looks amazing so good right yeah all these different like it tells you Enchanted Garden your journey begins with an enchanted garden with giant sweets I mean as you start to
Read it and I'll let you do it in your own time CU we are just briefly going through this the writing is very strange the writing is very strange oh is it and uh well join me over imagination you can see that AI was definitely used in the creation of these
Adbs yeah so that's why it's it because I was what I was trying to work out was how did they manage to do this so well in terms of looking at that when I've seen the result and it was not pulled off well at all I didn't like it you were
It it's the first I heard of it that somebody said this was so so bad that it was good type thing the way they worded it made made me smile gotting live performance that sweet teats is my favorite at the end your tons padise Cy turns exos day
Lollipops and yeah you should know from the first instance right if this is uh being advertised do not spend your money on it they probably didn't even check the site you know to that extent people have just seen those a good chance it just shows what people will pay 3035 a
Ticket was it do you5 a ticket to be fair you think you were get you were getting a bargain look at this place I mean obviously it's just a artistic impression but like it's got to be something like it right what when I actually at First felt
Quite so for them purely because this is like me and Steph having these great expectations for a party we're going to pull off and what we visualize it looking like and then this is still going to cost quite a lot of money that's still quite a few hundred pound worth of props
Going on there I mean I get that they'd sold tickets for ÂŖ35 a pop and they've obviously made a fortune but that even that rainbow watch that's like 200 quid isn't it you know so and then and then it just not being enough to fill the
Room you know you think that you've been ripped off self of that background I looked at these for our Halloween thing very similar backdrops they aren't cheap no they're not cheap and you would expect it's going to fill that wall and then when it turns oh God it don't quite
Fill the wall you know the wall can imagine the kind of us to being like oh no it just doesn't look how we envisioned it to look it is like the ADHD nightmare the expectation versus what what you actually pull off the problem is that up until the night
Before they knew that it was going to be this bad yeah and you should have just been canceling it I know we would have canceled it if we were charging people that like the amount of times we have finished an event or got it set up and
Just gone I don't care what it looks like now I don't care if people enjoy or not we're doing them for free and asking as charging that we're going wrong with maybe we shouldn't be charging 35 p a head yeah honestly we did a much better
Job at the Halloween thing that we did than this there's as lot dressed up as uh as the people making meth these exactly these poor ladies being branded meth heads the interviewed weren't they on um Good Morning Britain or whatever so I've only heard about these two girls
Because or that they've like been out there talking about it because H3 had both of them on yeah yeah and Ethan Klein KIRO paid them what they were owed from the scammer yeah that's the thing I did think that when I saw the pictures I thought they've just gone in there to
Work you know they don't it's not them well you I assumed it wasn't them but saw the thing they were told to give the kids two one to three jelly beans yeah and a half a cup of lemonade three4 c i sorry some of it's got a bit of lemon in
So it like made it higher but yeah these girls I'm sure they said the same on um this morning that why would you stay well you've got all these kids coming in one after another excited for a day and you just like I can't let these kids
Down your work ethic at the end you've been hired to do a job so you stay and you do your job them thinking oh my God you know I'm in trouble here because it obviously wasn't them that organized the whole thing it's easy to like laugh at them and be like
Meth and I'm sure she's like herself but she uh yeah they are the true the true Angels here yeah they didn't have to do so thankfully we have people in like this in the world now the unknown we saw a little clip before the unknown I cannot remember the bad guy's name in
Is it slugworth or something like that slugworth the original Wily wono was the guy that wanted to steal the recipe didn't see him that often he was a very like small but obviously stealing the IP you can't really do anything like that so randomly kids were just getting scared halfway through around
This this person that comes out of the walls and steals chocolate yeah um I said this to Steph earlier but it genuinely screams that whole I've got a great idea at 400 a.m. at a party and then this is what you end up coming up with I don't know if you've seen the
Footage of the guy being confronted as well but he's like tweaking he's like moving he's he's like sh he just looks I didn't realize I'd watched that clip so many times because it would been on H3 and on the internet it wasn't until I showed Nick and he was like look at his
Mouth his face and I thought oh my God he's on some whether it's because he's like so stressed that he was like yeah I need I don't my compassion is obviously clearly too high because I'm like oh yeah this uh this is the problem with AI guys um be careful because it will
Steal your money and what if you think you just have to be online for it to ruin your life definitely not what literally when it comes to the entrepreneurial side of things that's gone into this you know 10 out of 10 the actual execution on the other hand
Two out of 10 but like the idea is there they've done the website to be fair I've seen videos of it and the kids are having fun and it's just like you can imagine being like it's my imagination that's that's what we're doing here there let's just literally hire
Leester Sports Center and uh we'll just be like you just have to imagine that it's there we did call it the imagination room it's imagination is a same as us saying it's different we could do workshop on that just literally just imagine be be anywhere right now what
You make it speaking of imagin that's quite what books are in it yes 100% And that gives us a right good link to today's topic which is um World Book Day celebrated last Thursday but before we do that I wanted to pay um a little tribute not necessarily a long one just
Um mentioning very quickly that uh Kira torama the creator of Dragon Ball Z the Dragon Ball series um one of the most influential artists anime artists of Our Generation inspired so many more mangas and animes to be created and he was only 68 so I know a lot of his fans were
Waiting for like what he was going to next be producing and putting out there so yeah it's really sad man so did you really one of my exes obessed of it he used to um get up at 6:00 in the morning on a Sunday to wait for the
I think it released in America or something to watch the new that's really sweet I know it was a I know a lot of men that are like on the outward outward you'd be like they're into football they're call like Hardman they're like rap or whatever get to know most guys
They they like Dragon Balls forth you dead are you that kind of thing and I said moved on to you know all right sorry yeah so I don't think he's like well he's got other things that he probably him to know or he's just like please it's too important to me for you
To be mocking me so to even be that like I'm not talking about it they are serious about it I remember the film came out and there was boyfriends everywhere like I'll take you with me but you can't ask me one question do not talk to me throughout
The whole thing get enough popcorn sweets for yourself that you never have to to bother me throughout the whole thing if you can't do that stay home serious so um but yeah I just wanted to give him a special mention no re influential mangar art and all of
That is it it's a real big Hot Topic yeah definitely um so Pi up um uh to not the Wily wude no but korama shout out I'll be honest I'm not a huge Dragon Ball Z fan but I'm a fan of a lot of the stuff that was inspired
By that um One Piece being one of them but anyway let's move on books yes reading my favorite thing in the world the my only savior I feel like if anyone knows anything about you it's that yeah they know but I mean even the whole double decker bus idea is because I
Wanted a book bus so you know when it's completed that's the idea that people can come and donate books they don't want anymore and they can also take books I love that idea yeah we can travel around and like offer like some bean bags to just Chuck
Out connect over ly and bring literacy to because there's so many areas that I think I heard a statistic on the news the other day like one in five kids don't own a book or is it even higher than that um so it's kind of for me it's
That dream of bringing the opportunity to own a book right to to all these areas that perhaps and the other thing is a lot of libraries have closed down haven't they they've gone through Community uh funded or yeah yeah one in L BR which leer isn't small it's got
Like a huge University campus it just shows how much they use that rather than this small local one because I think it's open two days of the week for about four hours each day yeah they've gone to Smart um a lot of them have got smart opening times which actually if you've
Got your card and you know to use it it's brilliant so I can take my students to a Smart Li it's not even manned and we've almost got the place to ourselves like big um classroom lra had that and then Co came in and they got rid of it
And they just never reverted back yeah um which is bad any go any Council that currently doesn't have their Library open and more accessible sort that out one of our posters is in love down I got replace it how dare you um how dare you try and help us the
Amount of um things I've come up against with that you know people taking like I've gone like in the in the library in my Village for example I went in during a smart time so there was no staff okay yeah and um put a couple of posters up
And then when I went back in they'd all been taken down it was like all right like it's literally free help for parents free help my love I tried I tried posting it on a ADHD uh Reddit P page ADHD support and they were like stop advertising paid like products and
I was like it's it's free you can download them for yeah they're not paid for people just don't understand that I think if we charged we would get more um more people coming on I think they just think what do you mean it's free where's the catch
Yeah hello welcome welcome to world book day which is exciting for some I think cat is one of them you're you've got a tradition where you swap books constantly you gift each other Christmas Eve we always give each other a book and quite often um our presents to each
Other birthdays and stuff and we always swap books yeah really lovely one of my books that I've bought along got me well in fact cat got me this one both my Judy books well she's got that book this was my birthday present I think it was last year cuz India Warrior by Lisa
Andre is that yeah and weirdly when I was collecting some books up to talk about I realized there's hardly any and I only really enjoy fiction books and yet hardly any of these are fiction which is bizarre it's really interesting the ones obviously my books that are product placement in the back there
They're um fiction books but yeah when I was looking I think it's because if you're thinking when it comes to fiction books I can consume those and I and I'll forget as quickly as I've read them what the titles were where and plus I've got boxes and boxes of books at the minute
Not many on my actual shelves whereas the non-fiction books you know like invisible women and they've impacted me because they are packed with research and they are you know they are full of re real things as it were it's like lessons you've learned are attributed to them they kind of
Connect to it and you're like I remember this book because it taught me this and now my life's better that yeah I mean this Indigo Warrior I for anyone out there that doesn't know what an indigo child is it's it's apparently if if um if you believe in this kind of stuff
Like I do we need to do a whole episode on stuff for sure um but it's a type of Soul that's born on this Earth on purpose to change the human race So reading this was so bizarre because I'm going to let my mom read it because
She's going to be blown away like that is describing you and it even says in there that you'll be wrongly diagnosed as ADHD as having an attention deficit because you've got so much energy to give and um you don't fit in and you don't fit in because you aren an earth
Soul you've come here to kind of like point the human race in a different direction really really interesting yeah but um but any anybody that's like finds himself drawn to teaching to police to nurs in those kind of where you're like so purposeful purposeful driven yeah is likely could
Be an indigo show like something that stands out to me that makes me think you know if I was to subscribe to this maybe I am an indigo is the thing that you said about um the average things that happen in life will bother you you'll be like that's so
Obvious to fix why can't you just fix that and it feels like you're looking at a bunch of people in charge that haven't got a clue yeah or you're like looking at certain people around you like doesn't this bother you and they're like no not really and you're like I wish I
Wasn't bothered by and that just makes me think of every time I'm like and everyone around me's like stop it's that passion isn't it like passion for reading and teaching and trying to better humans up sometimes I'm like I wish I wasn't bothered it' be such a
More peaceful life you know like why am I so bothered where is that burning desire coming from amen man amen so you you should perhaps um have a flick through this and like see how you feel about we'll have a flick through but I feel like that highlights
Something that I was going to go into next that really for me is very different to reading for you and I've gathered a short Instagram that I think will uh illustrate what it's like when I very good you like it look at you you're so cute reading a book in public do you
Think you're better than everybody else do you think that they think that you think you're better than that they're like 2 miles away they probably hate you they probably just wanted this public park all to themselves on a Saturday but you're here so you kind of ruined it for
Them didn't you I don't think they're thinking are you embarrassed don't be you shouldn't be you should be relaxed relax relax you stop what a beautiful day wow do you have to pee do you think you'll have to pee anytime in the next 2 hours would you mind if I you should
Probably go PE you should be getting your steps anyways why are you sitting down that's kind of a waste of time what did you just read you don't know what you just read did you ever learn how to read are you sure prove it prove it
Could you stop tell me every single word that you've read on this page right now stop it does look like a good book what if I just what was that weird I didn't like that I didn't like it either do it again should I do it again what are you
Doing you think you need glasses sometimes I think I need glasses does that make you feel special not being able to see I bet it do anyway loser enjoy your books yeah bye then you that is me that is hilarious I think so many ADHD people
Will relate to that so shout out to uh Elise Myers go follow her on Instagram hilarious say I'm not followed because I'm not signed in on this computer but I am oh believe me I get every upload she has if you need find her Instagram
Oh is at least Myers and as you can see I've screenshotted it from I think I am following ha you didn't believe me it's triggered me reading is a struggle for adults and children with ADHD alike um many children with ADHD have difficulty with reading comprehension while both adults and kids with ADHD
Tend to lose Lo interest Miss details and connections lose track of where they are on the page and become easily distracted and this is 45% of his ADHD that struggle with the other 55% hyper focus on reading reading can be it a detriment to some you will escape all of life's needs
And the things that responsibilities and get lost in a book I don't know how I'd have survived ADH without reading being one of my hyper focuses because for example when I'm traveling and you're in an airport waiting around and the anxiety and all of that I literally just sit and read
And read and read and read and read and it saves me I can do anything as long as I can read wait yeah airports are so stressful I don't want to be smug about that because it's not it's not like this is the other thing you either enjoy
Reading and you and you can do it you know for pleasure or you don't you can't force that yeah I fully get you know what the only time I've been able to fly stress free was the last time I went away when I went to go and visit my mom
Last year was it last year the year before Oh God that was so long ago when you just anyway last time that was I planned my whole journey to the point of like what restaurants would be what cafes would be in each of the airports that I was going
To what was near it how I could how long I would spend at each thing all the different options and also plan to Vlog and to um which podcast i' listen to and just having that structure which like I get it I know it helps it really did in that it's uh yeah
Pointing it to myself would be really helpful read one that part you've got like a a Kindle or whatever you don't even need to take all these books I remember the first cuz I was quite like a traditionalist like you know I don't want a Kindle I'll read
Books forever it's a nice feeling right and and then I got bought my first Kindle and I was like oh my God I can download and even now I've just got the Kindle app on my phone and it's like I can just download a book whenever I want
But don't get me wrong SP I need to um get off screen so for me reading a book I couldn't lay in bed reading on my screen it's like a Kindle screen's completely different it's not backlit or whatever it's not bright so but on the phone I
Think that's what I'd prefer yeah non back clip thing yeah but I just wanted to find this so whilst I was watching that I was watching the Instagram thing it looked like I was a bit distracted but it's because I wanted to find this to show you as well my friend sent me
This it's a um it's called habio app or habio app but yeah it says a new hack which is being held as a blessing for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can help help people read books almost twice as fast and with more Focus which
I was giggling cuz I was like wow I'm going to consume literature um it's not like that h b i o don't break the chain what is the the don't break the chain oh yeah I think it is I think it's actually it yeah sounds like
It I don't know why they're not using it in the readed ride though because basically what it does is it highlights the first two or three letters of each word puts them as bold oh no that's type in h h b iio reading h b o reading see Sonic reading that looks like
The got on my phone when you put that's it so it's that and apparently um how is the hack implemented it employes a special technique which helps readers by directing their eyes with artificial fixation points as they read using this method the reader only concentrates on the initial letters that have been
Highlighted which allows the reader's brain to fill in the rest of the word oh this is available in the habio app try it today so this what it is but yeah Switzerland renowned for uh reading they are aren't they they really yeah well I think that's where we got our um Christmas Eve
Tradition from me cat I'm sure is oh very cool but but anybody that's tried this let me know because I got sent it by a friend who said she was going to try it so I'll see if she has and I obviously don't really struggle with
Reading but she does okay um so is it an app where you can download books and have them given to you like this or is it like a a translation thing where it applies to the rest like no IDE same if you can read whether books have to be
Added to that for you to be able to read any uh read specifically that book it will say somewhere won't it but yeah if anyone's tried it let yeah let us know if you've tried it because that might be a good reading I think that might be particularly you know because um I'm
Quite a dyslexic reader in the sense that I'll miss out words and I read words wrong but I always notice when I'm doing it so I wonder if that might be something that's that's helpful for catch the detail as you like yeah and it kind of snags your eyes that makes sense
I actually in the comment section of our Instagram there's a fantastic uh it's Kitty Peach chops I think I mened last time or them last time I actually have no idea what gender they are nor nor should I assume who do I think I am it's fantastic did I just shoot there
I the um their partner their wife is a editor for several worldwide uh romance authors oh cool and I was like that's so cool but she or them themselves I don't know it's because I say kitty they um are not very good at reading or struggle with reading just like me but
They said something that helps them is having a soundtrack so if you've got a certain genre putting some like I don't know some music on in the background that helps put you in I wanted to release a CD to go with magah high why don't we because I was like well I
Suppose you'd have to get the rights of the tracks that you wanted to cuz when I was in magal there was certain songs that were playing and I was like how cool would it be that as you're reading the book the kind of soundtrack goes along with it so that it's not quite
Having the book read to you because a lot of people with ADHD struggle with how slowly audio books are read yeah so for me I read super quick so it's like having an audio book that's going slowly it's like come on come on come on come
On you know whereas it might help other people for me music helps set the pace of certain things doesn't it like shopping or anything you do yes that'd be a really cool thing to use alongside it going back to the reading and the ADHD thing it's it's a tricky one isn't
It because you might actually feel like you're missing out that you know I always say to my students don't worry if you're not a reader I'm never going to stand here at the front of class and make you read and force you into believing like failure because you don't
Enjoy reading that's absolutely fine that you don't enjoy it but but I am a massive advocate for having the skill to be able to read because you can make you know if you've got to sign contracts and you sign the contracts and then say well I didn't know what it said that's not
Going to stand up in court that's not you know the person's problem it's your problem you don't sign a contract if you don't know what it says so recently I've been kind of really trying to get it CU a lot of them will say oh school don't
Teach me anything that I need to know for when I'm older well I tell you now is something you're going to need because I'm here to let you know here's one thing yeah so we did like a an argument in phse last week of um I put
The statement on the board that reading is dangerous for your health do you agree and it was brilliant because they were really arguing about whether it could possibly be dangerous for your health to not be able to read and some of them you know some had got the
Answers in terms of you can get somebody to help you and blah blah blah and some had got the answers in terms of saying well you know how could you read your report from the doctors or how could you read what ingredients were in something
If you'd got an allergy or how could you read a sign that's and it was so so good to hear the match Le I was like come on you're debating this is great you know and you're not falling out you've just got these opinions about these it's
Always a bonus when they're not arguing and beating each other up yeah but I I could get to the younger generation because mine are obviously Teenagers by the time they get to me the damage is done the stage is set um and what I would say to um to parents is Don't
Force a kid to read but read to them it's just as it's just as beneficial to have heard loads of stories like and to to enjoy the process so I'll say to some of my younger ones when I used to tut a younger students I'd be like I tell you
What then we'll read a page each and then sometimes they'd bargain even more like oh I can't you read two to my one I'd be like go on then you know and I'd make them believe that that they would really winning that situation but you
Know I'm going to read I'm going to read two or three pages in the SP time it takes you to read half a page anyway so it's not you're actually going to hear more by getting me to read more and it's just about the enjoyment factor it's about being exposed to the vocabulary
Because one of the things at the minute they're studying for exams every single exam paper that we've practiced this week they don't know what the words mean so the word delay came up today what does the word delay mean and they're like they know know but not enough to
Explain it right yeah and it's like because they've not been exposed to stories and literature and vocab I'm now at this position where they meant to be taking exams they didn't know what delay meant they didn't know what debt meant right you know so you're then going oh
My God every single exam paper I'm having to put up a new postart explaining what that word means they're not going to pass the exam when they don't even know what the words being used mean I did because I was reading I was being read to you know there was lit
In the house I was being exposed to it so it's it's really really important that even if your kid absolutely hates reading that you're still exposing them to the vocabulary somehow yeah definitely I know when I was growing up um the read my reading schedule was right before bed the first book there
Was two books the first one I read and it was like uh magic key sort of thing chpp I'd read that to my mom and then because of ADHD that tie me out that's already so the second book my mom would read to me by that time I'm already
Tired I'm already ready for a book and it was like I have two different kinds of absorption there yeah and that's the even with reading you learn a lot from the flow from the pace from where you take pauses and breaks um even like putting in tone of voice is it called
Inflection is you know all of those things are so beneficial like to you're learning yeah so it's there's so many ways that you're still going to learn even even if they never read to you and you're just reading to them it's still going to be a beneficial I think we
Underestimate how much reading can really like mold you as you're growing up as well like I mean I'm ready to talk about my childhood favorites but I know that the books that I got into as a kid as a teenager that I'd be like oh I'd
Come away from after reading them and my language would be what was used in that book I'd be talking like or I'd be like oh I wish I was that character using the language that would it expand my vocabulary and expand your understanding of what's possible because you're
Reading about um you know this culture in the Middle East or something then you're reading about Australia then you're reading about somebody that was brought up in a middle class family and composed A working class family it's like you're going to learn about all these different people it's a way of
Escaping your environment definitely I'm worried that people might be saying stuff in the chat last time I said this nobody was just highlighting that no one's talking oh wait it's on this bit sorry my bad oh that's okay nobody is talking oh my God we've missed so many
Oh my God sorry yep yep welcome shout out to people in London you've got questions about how to get your child to read ask them even if you're watching this on Payback put it in the comments and I'll and I'll do my best to help you because like I say I've
Worked in education for so many years and tuted and helped support families and I know that it's a real stress of parents because they're being told by the teachers you need to read so many books a week blah blah blah blah blah but my biggest thing is read you read to
Them find stuff that they enjoy reading and and help them read that way by it doesn't matter if it's a magazine It Doesn't Matter comic books is reading it might be small but it's helping the digestion of that information reading to them is still absolutely fine as well one of the other
Products I wanted to meet was like a full I wanted to write the story and then provide a full dress up kit as well so you could dress up the room dress up as the characters and kind of immerse your immersive reading but I think all these things are being done these days
Do it as a comic book is that being done like where you are the superhero and you get to activ put the cape on yeah yeah I mean I think that probably it probably is being done but we could definitely do it but it's just sourcing all of the
Individual little parts and it we'll let you know we'll get AI to completely design all of it and we'll take your money ASAP my favorite books I'm sorry I can't contain myself I got so excited that I just wanted to draw some of
My so I don't know if any of them ring a bell to anyone teenagers Wills Lou rinson was the anger thong in full frontal do not believe the hype of the film it's named wrong then we' got MOG the forgetful cat little do I know there's an adult I
Would have a cat that's basically M he's exactly the same and then as Piece At Last I don't know if anyone read this if no one's read it it was literally just a story about a daddy bear getting no sleep and it's hilarious to think how
Little I was able to sleep as an adult going in his like for this all these problems with foreshadows of a kid but these books or they just remind me Jacqueline Wilson oh my god there was like Vicky Angel and I remember everyone was like that first uh
First chapter was like an argument or like a funny thing happening with her best friend and then her friend getting like hit by a car and like it was a really like but I remember teenage girls being like I want to read Vicky Angel picking it up and being Like puberty makes you cry though good night Mr Tom with what I read I think read that about nine years old my teacher lent it to me because I'd read every single book at um primary school so he started bringing in books from home for me completely oh my God I remember that
Was the first B that really made me quiet but it also was one that really made me laugh like when he said he said about the neighbor having kittens cuz he was so scared bombs but I couldn't stop laughing at that saying having having Kitt that a weird idium is that an idiot
Yeah I think so one of my friends um surprised me this week by uh sending me a draft over to edit like just to put the punctuations incorrectly of a little book that she had written for her daughter oh I love that and it was and I
Well I hope that she doesn't remind me sharing what it was called cuz it was just the most amazing title it was bu take it yeah well you can't she IP's taken can't do it you're um you're a lizard Larry is in like you're a wizard
Harry you're a lizard Larry and it's the cutest story about um a lizard wanting to be all these different things and it's like it's amazing so any kids Publishers watching this we've got a book for you genius name I love that you know she's ADHD and it just made me
Think a wonder how many um authors are actually ADHD because you know you've got all of these ideas and when we've spoke about it before people in the chat straight away have been asking you know for advice on how they can get their book written down and it must only be us
That are foolish enough to sit and spend 200 hours yeah it makes me think of all the people that are discouraged because they struggle with reading they've got all these ideas but then the idea of getting it down on paper or like being able to plan an entire book is like oh
You made to think from an early age you can't even write a small essay let alone a book what and it's like yeah that's the thing I couldn't write essays I used to do really badly in my English exams and the teachers used to be so shocked
Every time like what happened you smash it in class you nobody ever picked up on the fact that there was a reason for that you know it was just I was I suppose I then internalized it was me I was the reason you know that for some
Reason I could perform and I knew what I was meant to be doing but I couldn't pull it off when when it count did that's what we do man we took that brunt we did indeed it's hurtful it's hurtful but it you know what actually makes me think about you're excelling with like
Getting completed it mate oh you've read all the books in this classroom here's some adult literature for you Lindsay my best friend growing up through school was exactly the same yeah and you know you get to that c thing well like you've got nothing to do right now get your
Book out and just do some reading quite reading to yourself and you get to a certain age where you'd bring your own book you were no longer like relying on the books in the classroom room and every time this happened it seemed like my best friend had a different book and
I'm like are you even reading these and she's like yeah whipping through them I must have had this same book for about five years but just get yeah like you're turning up to school with that one I'd be out and she'd be like you're having a laugh there's no way you're still
Reading that and I'd be like I am and my book mark would be like that close into the start of it it' be like so embarrassing but that literally looks like us on the front when we're at school oh that is so cool the uh see you
Have just touched upon a thing there that really hurts me as a teacher that fact that every every kid every person develops at different rates and has different interests and different abilities and yet you're made to feel like such an idiot if reading isn't something that a you enjoy or B that
You're good at and it is that kind of you know you're the nerd or you're the buffing of the class and you're the teacher pet if you're a good reader in comparison to the ones that aren't it's almost seen as a sign of intelligence and it shouldn't be yeah it's you know
If it made me predict my future oh I just won't ever I need a job where I can't read anything where I don't need to read or write or anything if I could have got hold of that little girl and been like five years to read this but
When you are 26 you are going to get a first class degree it at all not at all world book day because I took in my books to show them because it always makes them um see me in this different light they're like what you've written
Books I'm like and there swear words in there you know like I'm like look at the uh look at the chapter list there's swear words but um but yeah one got quite defensive and he was like um I hate reading I hate reading and you could tell he was getting quite
Confrontational where he was expecting me as the teacher to kind of come back at him with oh well me and I was like no that was it he said I don't see I don't see how anyone can read for pleasure and I was like well I don't see how anyone
Can not you know just like laughed and and he was like yeah but how can you read for fun I went yeah but how can you not read for fun and I was like don't worry I was like if you don't want to read for fun that's fine you know like
I'm not going to tell you tell you you should but like for me I absolutely love reading for fun that's that is something I totally do you could you watch the egg scrambling in his brain and just giving it back to him like I don't know if you could he's like
Like why is she not arguing with me I tell you what though one thing that I have started to realize is that I've suffered with burnout more this year than ever and I think it's because I've not been um drinking and then I gave up smoking as well and both of those things
Were things that I'd relied on as downtime activities yeah so it's like I'd have a night off to get drunk and then I would have two days off aob to recover or I would um have 20 minute a 20 minute break to have sit another
Smoke and each day I would have the this downtime moment so although I'd still sometimes work when I was smoking CU it like a concentration tool it was it was very much still a downtime what you mean and now now there's no downtime it's like I'm doing things I'm doing things
I've got all this time I've got all this energy you know and there's never so I've had to literally ma um Lou bought me this book I've had to I've bought another book that I'm reading at the minute I've had to actively start buying more books because judge render yeah no
Way love the judges I love the justice system clearly of course got justice issues didn't know judge rinda was actually a judge that's really cool yeah no he is um trained as yeah and and a very good um fiction writer as well so um if you do like who
Done it though this is the book that I ran back into fet because this is a who done it really really good and if anyone wants to buy me the next one I'll happily receive it because it got right to the end and I thought it would all been
Wrapped up nicely in a boat and then there was a Twist human because now I'm like now I've got to I'm a bit annoyed because I didn't want the drama to continue but on the other hand it was such an entertaining um book what is the second one
Called there oh wait to look out if anyone wondered why it took me so long to read it and why didn't give up it's because in it it's a load of uh so ADHD what were you talking about I'm talking about this now um oh little like kind of
I loved them are they like a puzzle is that or is it just the fact that it was visual that you liked it it there is loads of um little notes I won't say who it's between but yeah there's little um messages that need to be decoded oh cool
And just yeah me and my friend had like pass things backwards or forwards like that so it is just what you're doing class and I'd sit there and I'd be like I don't know and everyone lean over and be like well that means that and that
Means and I'm like oh yeah not only is she better at reading she can connect the dots a better for me as well but I remember having so much fun doing that part because you could also have fun like saying the wrong thing you end up
With a funny sentence took me ages to get through it but I'm telling you it was a wicked book a bit of um ages oh what's that Superhero book called Captain super pants or what is it called that rings a bell it was a film recently it's not super pants Underpants Captain
Underpants those books uh they're partly um written like typed but then they're also cuz they're about two kids that do comic books in the book itself it got keeps switching to the comic book so those are my students is that's the thing not only have I read lot loads of
My books but because I read with my students or not so much I'm not toring youngsters as much anymore but I'd be like reading different book yeah those books they are a lot of fun and those kids are definitely n divergent kids as well so it's quite nice having the
Because they're very mischievous and naughty the kids are so they can see themselves within the literature yeah yeah yeah they're they're really good so if you this is the thing I think when when young people as well say oh I hate reading I do say to them you've probably
Just not found something that you've enjoyed reading yet that is definitely a big part of it I didn't realize that books get smutty they get rude yeah some of the most I'd be like my mom would lend me a book and I'd be like and I'd be like she's like good bit
Is it and I'd be like what on Earth I also didn't know that like you said earlier books could make you laugh as you're reading it it's creating this like what's happening in your mind and I remember sitting there on a beach laughing my head up like
Tears I couldn't see the next line and then just all of a sudden being like this is a book yeah how am I laughing I'm on my own quiet I love that books make me laugh out loud like gosh I mean and I get it's so frustrating I can't remember any of
Them off the top of my head but I've read some hilarious books in my time yeah uh sure I will give one a shout out just because it's my um my M's friend someone that she went to school with it's called Escape Route while Steph searching that as well sex sexy books
When I remember going to the library and I would purposefully hunt out out the ones that had like a 15 sticker on cuz I be used like a system with the teenage bit of if it should have been 15 and above and I'd be like like oh yeah if
They if it's got the 15 and the arrow then chances are that it's going to be um and I'd flick through it to kind of like capture the gist and if I noticed any sexual language I'm like yep that what's going with it was like the equivalent of a
Teenage lad finding porn I suppose like me finding these SMY books that's so funny I just imagine you like L over your bed looking at him reading them over and over and over again like yeah like say like my grandma me and my grandma were both into reading but bless
Her she was very uh Christian and if she had known I was reading purely for the smoke give her the books after you ripped them out she' be like oh that's better now thank you it was disgusting before I told you I on the stream B of
My ex's mom said about um educating jod or whatever she was like I had to reread um a of those pages if you know what I mean like oh God I unfortunately do know so was she ever like is this about you like well I mean J is not me she is
Like ba she's Bas Luc but that's what I mean did it not make her go you that's what all three books are about yeah they're just books on Alleyway sex there's definitely one encounter down an Alleyway or in a car park you'll just have to find out buy
Them yourselves go to Amazon I'll get them up after this as well uh John Parker great uh Scottish Man created this book Escape Route wow that looks well cool it's such a cool illustration and it's all written in kind of like how he pronounces stuff in his Scottish
Accent it's very funny but and it's very uh offensive if you are easily offended or even like you're not even easily um expect it's hilarious um what is an Escape Route an Escape Route is essential if you want to say stay scot-free and not end up in a prison or
Worse this is a story about myself and the many tight spots I've got myself into and how I managed to escape scotf free indeed I am a Scot and know the origin and meaning of the expression so I've always known to make sure that I had an escape route to prevent me from
Ending up in the quicks scent this just covers a load of little stories about his life and everything he's we kind of Almost Do a shout out to him by doing like ADHD hacks of how to escape certain sticky situ you know like you that heck
That we were told where it's if I introduce you first it's because I've forgotten their name like that like that's genius wait I'd forgotten about that though just to be clear until you said that so i' have been like yeah one of the stories depicted here if
You can see the mountains yelling at him um I won't go into too much detail but these two lovely uh twins sisters girls that were planning on climbing Ben nevest the next day met John in a pub the night before and he was like H never
Been up there myself but he was like I live around here I'm IU could easily go there in my flipflops I'll meet you tomorrow so he uh puts a can of Stellar in his pocket few joints bag of the white stuff feel bit rocket just like
It's just like going up G Park it's just it's just a bit of a hill shout out if you know bradgate Park if you don't you like huh um and even bradgate Park is quite difficult you know when you margin a bit you can get out puff yeah
Especially if you're as unhealthy as John is and it's like you know he had a pair of shorts on FP flops so unprepared and it got to the point where he's tripping for one because he's taken all of this substance and the brck is telling him you're an idiot you have
Effed up look how stupid you are and he's like f like it's such a good thing and he's just like The Rock's having a go at him basically messing up and it's just and the woman the woman police officer that he managed to won't go any further you need to get some
Yourself I've managed to knock off the whole time well done mate and it's starting now don't worry oh wait is it uh I just wanted to can I just say as well quickly look at this um obviously one of my one of my fan people grae hanock but look signed by
Hey we can never get you on gram please well I I um I did him a full like pack with a t-shirt I make you do a picture yeah you did him a picture I wrote him a letter loads of shout out stuff and then never even heard back just didn't know
How famous we were already I know clearly oh come on gra we know you're watching gram we know you know that we'd turn you down now because we're obviously above those Heights he just he's scared of getting big time by us I think sh's being hooked up to an Iowaska um no DMT
Experiment him and Joe R they're like that's hilarious I want to see that yeah they're like interesting it's like they're being drip FedEd for so many hours and then they're so that they can map out that world and work out if it actually exists because everyone seems
To go to the same realm it's interesting I like the theory I want to see how need any more participants it was safely like monitored as I was doing sounds quite interesting 19 views on that 19 64 on magah high I was trying to get 50
Reviews for so long and then I stopped watching it as it were like cuz we were doing this and my attention got directed and then I went back to it I oh my god I've got over 50 reviews did it I was so pleased I love that well if you haven't
Already get yourself the magahi the the trilogy as well as you've got the narcissist notebook The Poetry lyrical Instinct all great reads strongly recommend you getting them and leaving a review yes please um even you know download it on Kindle or order the paperback and leave me reviews because
It just helps it reach new audiences most um self-published authors never sell over a 100 copies but I've sold over a thousand so I'm really pleased and I got turned down by so many publishing houses when I was first um when I was first trying to get a publish
In contract and they were like people just aren't reading this well people are reading it and back then I was also I got offered one but if I took out a load of the swear words because there's quite a lot words in mega high and then now
There's books on the Shelf with the f word in the title like you know come on to ahead of the game I was to ahead of the game maybe I should retry sending them if only I could find the actual Originals I have no idea where they seem
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Was thinking um if anyone is interested in book reviews then we should do like kind of once a month I'll tell you what book I'm reading I love that that's a really good yeah lind's reads lind's reads and I guys you know I've just heard how terrible I am with my reading schedule
So you need to come and share the stories you've been reading um so Lindsay's not alone yeah and it my one book a year might not be that valuable in this club thank you toline Queen thank you so much um but yeah I don't want I always
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Fantastic podcast!! Thank you so much for mentioning me, (kitty_p_chops) đ I struggled with reading as well as when I was read to. My brain just wandered no matter what. In my assessment tests at The University of Michigan, I failed miserably and was required to attend the Universityâs writing center to help me at the beginning. The last 3 remaining required English classes always went so fantastic though. I received 2 Aâs and my 2nd A+ for final grades. My teacher throughout these 3 classes told me I should be a writer. He asked me into his office and it was so amazing to hear praise for not just writing, but praise in school was the only praise I got growing up. This teacher helped me get my 2nd job helping during my University years. I couldnât imagine doing what all goes into writing a novel, with seeing what authors I know go through. So overwhelming. I believe Steph briefly mentioned this in the podcast. Again, thank you so much for mentioning us. My name is Mark, pronouns he/ him . Just wanted to clarify and I apologize this comment is so long đ°