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Moments of Madness: ADHD Tangents and Neurodivergent Joy episodes
- Hobbies, Habits, and Hot Takes!Shenanigan Report
In this lively episode of Moments of Madness, hosts AJ and Marly dive into the delightful realm of hobbies and habits that add spice to their lives—and maybe a little madness too!
AJ opens up about her creative passions, revealing her love for crochet, spinning, and sewing. She dreams of having the ultimate “lady cave” where these pursuits can flourish. Meanwhile, Marly shares her journey into the world of wooden models, now exploring painting techniques, as well as her foray into cross-stitching (that was never completed) and briefly into knitting that resulted in a single scarf.
The conversation shifts gears as the duo emphasizes the significance of structure and routines, particularly for those navigating life with ADHD. We discuss how establishing habits can lead to benefits and offer some ideas on approaches to helping to establish new routines and habits.
But that’s not all! Prepare for a rant as AJ and Marly dissect the ideas surrounding “wellness” versus “healthy.” They explore how easily people can be swayed by the allure of wellness culture, challenging listeners to think critically about what truly promotes well-being.
Scintillating Segments- Hobbies: AJ likes to create things, Marly mostly makes messes with paint pens, and never really finishes much
- Habits: Can structure help an unstructured mind? Routines and habits for ADHD legends, can they help, can they be formed, are we too chaotic?
- Hot takes: Wellness versus health, what’s your thoughts?
Madness Resources and Links- Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild of NSW - where AJ learned many and varied obscure fibre and textile related hobbies.
- Sticks & String Podcast - AJ was on one episode doing a natural dyeing experiment with eucalyptus leaves. Unfortunately the episodes are no longer available but the Wordpress site is still around.
- Habitica: This app is all built around gamification of habits. Input the habits you want to form and when you complete them, you level up like an RPG character!
- Building Habits with ADHD - ADD.org page about habits building and approaches for people with ADHD
- The Dopamine Dispatch: Useful Substack site for ADHD tips.
- How to Get Your SHEET Together: Another great Substack recommendation, by Maggie Jon. Contains many swears.
- Why is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?
- The Cleveland Clinic: What is Vaginal Steaming and is it safe? Short answer is … don’t do this!
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
46 min - Moments of Madness TangentsShenanigan Report
A chat about multi-level marketing schemes from The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association turns into a story about pilates, mutations, cilantro, Mexican food, chicken and leek pie and lasagna. It just gets weirder from there.
Scintillating SegmentsThere are no segments, there is only Zuul.
Madness Resources and LinksLinks are minimal since we were just gasbagging and we were too tired to do actual show notes for this one:
- Berlotti’s Syndrome - Because AJ’s spouse has an extra lumbar vertebra
- Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?
- ARFID - Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
- Amigos y Familia
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
39 min - Murderbot: The Books, The Show, The ObsessionShenanigan Report
This episode sees AJ and Marly stay on topic more than ever before! Apparently obsession reduces tangents, who knew? The girls talk about their feelings about the show, the books, how much the show was true to the books. Thoughts about themes of good and evil, identity and mental health, and who does Murderbot better: Alexander Skarsgård or David Cui Cui? ⚠️ Warning: Spoilers, ahoy! ⚠️
Scintillating Segments- Building a community: Get involved, we’re on all the things, comment on Spotify, Facebook, BlueSky and (sighs) Twitter X. We would love to hear from you!
- The Show: What did we think of the show? Can you get Murderbot’s pronouns right, or is your crush on Skarsgård so deep you can’t? (Spoiler: AJ’s is)
- The Books: Our thoughts on the book are more scattered throughout, but we definitely have thoughts!
- The Themes: Is AI ethical? Do creators have responsibilities for artificial constructs? Creative opinions on identity, mental health, and community.
Madness Resources and Links- Martha Wells official website
- All Systems Red (printed book)
- All Systems Red (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Murderbot (show streaming on Apple TV+)
- Murderbot coverage on Reactor Magazine
- Totally gratuitous Tiktok of Alexander Skarsgård getting his Murderbot costume on
- This is how Tom Hardy handles a weird interview question
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
51 min - Schooled! Magic, Mayhem, and MisinformationShenanigan Report
Book reviews, education related trauma responses, fake news, and a dunce cap! This week we fumble our way through all these things, while trying out a new recording service, which has added additional chaos and cross talking!
Scintillating Segments- Book Club: What did we think of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association? Remembered trauma, book and education review!
- Fake News?: How do we hold up against the list of Headlines found, and faked, by Crimson Llama!
- Today I Learned: Dunce caps: where did they come from?
Madness Resources and Links- South Park (NSFW language)
- https://youtu.be/CcpMm82pimk?si=TbiRXe-_Y_EV1lEJ
- https://youtu.be/ZQDxTVlQqVk?si=rJ-TLUraHkFba6zC
- The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association
- Undocumented Migrant, 24, is arrested after he pretended to be a teen to enrol in Ohio high school.
- 15 sets of twins are graduating from one New York high school
- Twin Statistics:
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2020/may/older-women-more-likely-to-conceive-twinshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Statistics- Better late than never? Library book returned 50 years after due date
- Parents and teachers warned not to ridicule schoolkids who identify as animals
- School band director Tased and arrested after refusing to stop music
- Inside Victoria ‘ghost schools’
- Dunce Caps
- Piers Anthony
Techy Note from AJThis week we tried out a new recording tool and… long story short, it didn’t go swimmingly. Therefore I wasn’t able to eliminate as much of the cross talk as I would have liked. Hopefully, it doesn’t detract too much from the overall listening experience. Please bear with us while we’re still learning about this new podcasting gig!
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
54 min - It Begins...Shenanigan Report
In this episode, we get to know Marly and AJ, because we know everyone wants to, and learn something of their wacky plans for their podcast. They’ll spill sampler spoon sized servings of the types of segments you can expect in future episodes. Then they’ll vanish again like thieves in the night!
Scintillating Segments- Introductions
- Background and plan for the podcast
- Introducing future segments
- Burning Obsessions
- Book Club
- No One Asked You
- Stop the Madness
- This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Madness Resources and Links- Psychiatry.org definition and information on ADHD
- The Murderbot Diaries books on Amazon
- The Murderbot TV show
- Australia isn’t built for winter
- Book Club Book 1: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association
- Fesshole (on Mastodon)
- NT News: Frog struck down by lightening!
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
41 min - Circus? Or Podcast?Shenanigan Report
Well we had to do a dry run didn’t we? And now it’s episode 0… or The Trailer, as Marly thinks of it.
Scintillating Segments- Circus? Or Pocast: In which the origins of the podcast are revealed, we discuss our vast following, and we say inappropriate things.
- Why aren’t you the green dinosaur: Marly covers her latest fashion statement and identifies which dinosaur persona each one of us aligns with.
- First Episode Idea: We plan out the concept of our first real episode.
Madness Resources and Links- momentsofmadness.au
Music CreditsOur lively intro and outro tracks are courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Stay Connected with the MadnessSubscribe: Love the chaos? Hit that subscribe button wherever you found our podcast and join us every fortnight!
Join Our Community: Let’s keep the conversations going on Facebook, BlueSky, X, Instagram or our blogs, AJ or Marly
Visit Our Website: For bonus content, outtakes, and more madness, swing by momentsofmadness.au
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About Moments of Madness: ADHD Tangents and Neurodivergent Joy
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to Moments of Madness! We're Marly & AJ, two neurospicy chaos-goblins bouncing between hyperfixations faster than a caffeinated squirrel—niche obsessions, pop culture pandemonium, and…
whatever shiny thing hijacked our brains this fortnight! Wave your freak flag high for ADHD tangents, flashes of intense seriousness, and zero chill. Podcast or glitter bomb for your brain? Why not both? Hit play and embrace the chaos!