Toddla T
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We bring you a very unique episode this week, where Annie speaks to her husband Tom (a music producer who goes by the name Toddla T). It’s an incredibly insightful and generous conversation about being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, becoming sober and how they have both navigated those changes together.
‘Four years after meeting Tom at Fabric nightclub, we had a baby together. We had another kid just under four years later. We’ve been together for 13 years in all. We’ve both had to grow up a lot since becoming parents, but since we got married in 2018, Tom has had a reckoning of sorts in terms of understanding himself, and this is all due to a huge change that happened in his life a few years ago, where he got an adult diagnosis of ADHD.
I asked him to talk to me about his changes, and we covered his journey from being a misunderstood kid in school, to his epiphany of discovering music, to becoming famous, to becoming sober and the crippling anxiety that came as a result of that, to finally finding clarity after visiting an ADHD specialist and the work in progress that is his recovery. ‘
We really hope you enjoy this very special episode of Changes. All the links that Annie and Tom mention in the episode are as follows:
https://adhdaware.org.uk/what-is-adhd/getting-nhs-diagnosis/
https://aadduk.org/help-support/specialists-support-and-coaches/
Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scattered-Minds-Origins-Attention-Disorder/dp/1785042211
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unexpected-Joy-Being-Sober-alcohol-free/dp/1912023385
Untangle Your Anxiety: A Guide To Overcoming An Anxiety Disorder By Two People Who Have Been Through It by Joshua Fletcher and Dean Stott
ADHD and Anxiety
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZiPPFHK7Xp/?utm_medium=copy_link
Should you be affected by any of the issues raised in this episode, in the UK, The Samaritans can be reached on 116 123. You can also contact Mind on 0300 123 3393 or head to mind.org.uk.
In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Changes with me, Annie McManus. |
| 0:12.7 | I met my husband Tom Bell in Room 1 in Fabric Nightclub when I was 30 and he was in his |
| 0:18.8 | early 20s. |
| 0:20.4 | He was a tall, remarkably handsome, skinny, big-haired, thick, accented Sheffield man boy. |
| 0:28.0 | He was an artist and a DJ. |
| 0:29.7 | He went under the name Todd Latee and he just released his debut album, Skanky Skanky, |
| 0:34.3 | to great acclaim. |
| 0:36.8 | We fell in love fast and four years after meeting Tom, we had a baby together. |
| 0:41.3 | We had another kid just under four years later and we've been together for 13 years in |
| 0:46.2 | all. |
| 0:47.2 | We've both had to grow up a lot since becoming parents but since we got married in 2018, |
| 0:53.0 | Tom has had a kind of reckoning of sorts in terms of understanding himself and a lot |
| 0:57.9 | of this is due to a huge change that happened in his life a few years ago, where he became |
| 1:02.9 | sober and then got an adult diagnosis of ADHD. |
| 1:08.7 | Tea has managed to achieve a varied and brilliant career in music. |
| 1:13.7 | He went on to release two more artist albums, a presenter show on BBC Radio One for ten |
| 1:18.7 | years and is now a full-time music producer having produced songs for all sorts of people |
| 1:24.7 | from Heide One, H.A. Tracey, Stormsy, Frado, H, Young Tea and Bugsy, Roots Manoeuvre and loads, |
| 1:32.5 | loads more. |
| 1:34.1 | I suggested to Tea recently that he come on changes to talk about the last few years |
| 1:39.1 | of his life and the kind of epiphanies he's had about himself. |
| 1:42.4 | I thought it would be really helpful to our audience and really impactful for a lot of |
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