Right after my morning stimulants if I browse comment-centric stuff (like I'm doing right now oh no)...I have to be super careful I don't suddenly produce an 8 paragraph comment outlining my points of view on the topic and then backing up each point against hypothetical but inevitable challenges to said point of view.

Sometimes this is in private messages to my long-suffering friends, sometimes it's Lemmy...

Wish I could just bang out a novel instead but I feel like gradeschool programmed me for "persuasive essays" vs. creative writing at like a 5:1 ratio. :( :(

(Stopping here before I do it again ahhh!)

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Proud of your restraint! It's difficult, but you're doing well!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, that was really sweet to read. Seriously, thank you for taking the time for this bit of kindness. It made my day! :)

PS: By your handle and domain, you sound like my kinda people. :) ✌️🏴🌎🌱☀️ Keep being awesome!

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is that actually something unique to people with ADHD? I often find myself writing way too much for other people to read kind of on impulse, get super focused on a topic and spend hours researching and adding on to the monologue, and if that's also something someone with ADHD would do together with other stuff I suspect about myself, then maybe I should actually go and look for a diagnosis or something. Either that, or I'm boring asshole.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, I've only ever been me, but this is something that people with ADHD (or sometimes autism spectrum) tend to do.

Being interested or engaged and having a lot to say is one thing, but feeling compelled to dump everything you know about Gundams or something into a huge 10 paragraph read in the YouTube comments might be a little different. :p

Also, not a doctor, but it's a tricky thing to pin down because "everybody does this stuff sometimes." The question is whether these quirks happen to you so often that they disrupt your life. It's hard to draw the line, especially when our "fast paced click-economy society" is also playing a role in lowering everyone's attention spans.

I'd recommend a channel "How to ADHD", and checking out the symptoms, and consulting a professional about your experiences.

I found out way later in life and it was a bit shocking, but also explained a LOT. I also got to realize "So I wasn't just a lazy idiot who didn't try hard enough -- THE ENTIRE TIME!!" ...and I found that quite liberating.

YMMV. :)

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Well, I'm 33 and my mother got diagnosed with ADHD few months ago, and while I know it's sometimes genetical, it's also the way I was raised up where my mother would chatter for hours about stuff like why we can't water some flowers too much. The thing was she was rather introverted and something had to happen for the dam to break and her to get comfortable. So I got some mannerisms that are similar to that, but I guess I'll need a doctor to tell nature and nurture apart. I'm not sure though if I'm ready to learn all that's wrong with me, lol.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

I usually spend way too much time rephrasing my comment and making it shorter.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 0 points 4 months ago

Autistic people tend to infodump as well.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

So real, I do that regularly

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wish I could just bang out a novel instead

You'll get there friend, you just have to hyperfocus on the novel.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

Haha well writing isn't my primary expressive art form, but I agree!

The trick is picking something that catches my monkey brain long enough to hit consistently, so it becomes a novel. :D

I've considered blogging when I gotta drop a ramble but...seems like that's a dying medium. :(

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lots of small paragraphs at least :D Blocks of long text without any paragraphs are scary...

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Haha thank you!

I feel like if I'm gonna subject anyone to it, I can at least properly format it for comfortable readability. 😂