i recently deleted tiktok (read: my friend took my phone and deleted it (with permission)) and i feel like ive gotten a lot more productive? its only been a week so i cant make any real notes yet but my hope is that my attention span gets better. im riddled with adhd and ive known for a while that the whole tiktok schtick definitely wasn't helping my inability to pay attention to things for longer than 30 minutes. i've been using tumblr instead, which has also had interesting effects. i'm dyslexic (its not too bad in terms of reading, i have a harder time with the other aspects) so using a social media where the main form of communication is text and not oral word has been a little bit of a struggle because my reading comprehension isn't always the best. That one tumblr blog that asks reading comprehension questions has actually made things a lot better tho. i love books and reading, i was a huge bibliophile as a kid, but as ive gotten older ive been able to read less and less because i just get frustrated about not being able to focus enough to work through the dyslexia and then i cant comprehend what the book is saying and i end up just going in tiktok. some of my friends "made" me read and annotate The Outsiders and i remembered how much i fucking LOVE reading and im really hoping that using tumblr and not tiktok will help me be able to get back my ability to read full books.

this post is a mess, anyways tldr: tiktok bad tumblr good want read more book