'What’s up! I can’t read.'
That's how Oliver James began the viral video that launched his TikTok account,“I went in my van and I pretty much just said 5 words ... and that just started the whole entire journey on TikTok," James told TODAY's Joe Fryer.
So James took the task upon himself. And as an aspiring motivational speaker, he turned to TikTok last year in the hopes of encouraging others while removing the stigma surrounding illiteracy. Alongside classics like “Percy Jackson” by Rick Riordan and “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein, James is also reading books on. He says he was diagnosed with the mental health disorder, among others, after his abusive schooling experience and serving time in federal prison.
“I think my main goal was to put out motivational content to grow in any aspect of their life,” he says. "When they gave me the gift card, I was just like, ‘I'm going to be able to build a library.' I went from no books at all when I put that post up," he says."It's shocking. It's support toward the dream."
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