ud839_Miwok | app displays lists of vocabulary words | Architecture library

I just wanna know if I'm doing something wrong since I'm kinda new to all this.
If there is anything else that you'll like me to add just let me know.
This is the repo branch where I'm trying to implement the ViewPager if you wanna see all the code.

So I have 4 Categories represented with Fragments, each of this categories holds an ArrayList of items that each has a onItemClickListener that should reproduce some audio.
I'm trying to display the Fragments with a ViewPager but the problem is that when I scroll from a Fragment to another, then come back to the already created Fragment, it doesnt register the touch event, nothing happens, not even an error nor exception.
If I go to a newly created Fragment the touch works just fine.
Also, after switching back to an already created Fragment if I scroll even just a little bit to another Fragment and comeback or through the ArrayList of that Fragment for some reason it starts to recognize the touch in the ArrayList items again.

• Fragments in ViewPager2 does not respond to clicks if scroll position is 0
  
• ViewPager2 conflicting with SwipeRefreshLayout
• Android ViewPager2 with fragment containing a recyclerview not scrolling

• I tried to use a coordinatorlayout wrapping the ViewPager2 but there is no difference
  
• I've been reading some of the official viewPager2 examples that are written in Kotlin but none of them seem to have a similar situation (also it's hard for me to read Kotlin code)

word_list.xml: