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You're hereby invited to:
The Reading with ADHD Challenge! 🤗
Hey fellow (would-be?) reader with ADHD! ❤️ If you're like me, reading sometimes feels like a chore, no matter how much we love and want to read. That's why we're doing it together in The Reading with ADHD Challenge, where you pick your own book, read at your own pace, and enjoy the power of a supportive community! 🤗
Next challenge starts this week - join us! 🎊
Some readers stick mainly to a single genre/ type of books; others read widely. I have a guess about how ADHD fits into that - Will you please help me test it? 🙂
Are you:
ADHDer, niche reader
ADHDer, wide reader
non-ADHDer, niche reader
non-ADHDer, wide reader
Readers (/audiobook listeners /Braille readers /...) with ADHD, as well as writers, parents, teachers and anyone who relates - you're invited to share the joys and horrors of reading with ADHD, tips for easier reading/ listening, book recs, rants and lots of support in -
✨ The Cozy Reading with ADHD Club ✨
Our online community has multiple homes - a Facebook group, a Discord server, a (e𝕏-)Twitter community, and a Medium blog.
✨ Join us! 🤗 ✨
Readers with ADHD: what does a perfect book look like?
✨ One of my goals in writing a cozy fantasy novel inspired by ADHD is to make the book as friendly as possible for readers with ADHD. I'm just one reader with ADHD, so I need your help! Please answer the poll and share! ✨
If you could magic all books to fit your needs/ wants, what would you change? Answering this poll will help me, and possibly other authors, write more ADHD-friendly books! ❤️ Please add missing options in replies!
Add ADHD representation (anything specific? Adult? Women/girls? Anything else?)
Keep all chapters short (or have frequent section breaks)
Add memory aids: list of characters, maps, or...?
Print larger format editions (how large?)
Print larger fonts/ bigger line spacing
Something else, see replies!
I'm perfectly happy with books remaining as they are!
Just a few days ago someone in my Twitter Community of "Reading with ADHD" mentioned how audio books are often not considered actual reading.
This bugged me very much. I see this as very harmful prejudice, often ableist. So I made this.
And also this... in case you'd like to join us 😍
Reading with ADHD on:
Discord
Medium blog - Books, seen through ADHD eyes
I'm not sure GoodReads has motivation fully figured out... 🤔
Have you ever dared take out a book and read in a social situation?...
Say, when you or others would easily peak at your phone.
Or would you just read on your phone? 😁
(Annoyed that phones are acceptable, but books aren't! 🤷♀️)
ADHD and quitting: there’s also a good sense!
It took decades. Not years. Decades.
Us ADHDers DNF (= do not finish) so many things, that even leaving a book that doesn’t click with us ends up feeling like a failure: here’s another thing I started and will never finish.
After decades of forcing myself through books I did not connect with so as not to “quit”, I realized I’ve been wrong all this time.
A better, more correct way to look at this is - here’s me re-evaluating and realizing that this specific effort is simply not worth it!
Today I quit reading Terry Pratchett’s “The Colour of Magic” a third way in. Not because it wasn’t good, not because I’m a bad reader, and certainly not because I’m a failure.
The book is funny and cool, but at the moment I need characters to deeply connect with. This is not that kind of book.
Glad I realized this was the reason for my very slow advancement with it!
As a farewell to Pratchett, here’s a quote that seems like a description of the path of an ADHD thought: 😁
“In his somewhat defenceless state a stray thought, wandering through the dimensions in search of a mind to harbour it, slid into his brain.”
Starting T. Kingfisher’s “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking” now!
