#gonna try someday
HEY! adhd students! is reading academic texts physically PAINFUL. is it not helping to use read aloud or take pretty notes or use your regular coping mechanisms, even if the text is on a topic you’re interested in?? because I think I cracked the code. you gotta actively read. listen to your lecture or watch a YouTube video or even read a Wikipedia article about the topic, something short and easy. And then come up with some conclusions or theories about it. Now when you read you can find out if you were right or not!! you’re engaging with the text so it adds interest, we LOVE being right so now it’s personal, and you can start sorting the info you get from the reading into useful or not useful depending on what area of the topic you’re interested in which is gonna make it easier when you start writing about the topic. (obviously you’re gonna wanna write about the part you cared about right?) And even the information that was deemed not useful? you’ll be surprised how much of it sticks with you just because you had to know what it means to know if it is relevant to your interests! Now go be the scholarly geniuses I know you are and don’t be intimidated by lengthy readings. this isn’t a tedious task you HAVE to do, it’s an interesting puzzle you’re GOING to solve.
