Also FYI the ADHD subreddit is hilarious. We're so eager to dump feelings in 5000 word posts but NOBODY there can read any of it because it's too long.
We need to hire some normal folk to come in and TL;DR that shit for us.
I have never understood the need for paragraphs. Bullet points seem like the condensed form of paragraph prose, and thus are more efficient for absorbing the contents.
It depends on how you want to convey information. I prefer writing a few sentences or a short paragraph explaining what my bullet points will be about, and then I proceed to use them to get more information across.
Lol, any comment of mine that goes beyond a paragraph tends to become bullet points, even when utterly inappropriate. Helps to contain and organise a rant into coherent points.
Bullet points... that's how I did essays at school.
Write down all my thoughts in bullet point.. arrange them in order and then expand into paragraphs.
GOOD GOD..... JUST LOOK at my comment moment ago.... i ABSOLUTELY LOVE BULLET POINTS. LIKE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE... even at my work.... oh fuckk........
why hasn't a seamless "create event from email" feature been implemented?
make the email's unique ID a link that is attached to a reminder or calendar event.
instead of smashing red notification bubbles and forgetting to go back and address the emails, i would smash the red notification bubble and then get reminded of the email at a time and place where i can actually do something about it.
Yep, I just tell all of my friends straight up that if they text me something and I don't answer in a timely manner, keep nagging me or actually call me.
Is that why I do that? I can type almost as fast as I think so there's that. And I read a lot when I was a kid so I naturally like to see short punchy sentences that encapsulate separate ideas.
i mean most stories follow similar patterns and differences are mostly in the colorful metaphors that surround the verb.
if the next sentence does not make sense then I'll back up and give a more thorough glance and gather the context.
This is why I'm getting the new Blackberry KeyONE. Autocorrect took away the voice so to speak in my text. Back during the days of qwerty phones, I would right more like I speak instead of all formal.
Oh wow... is that why I do that when I message or text? I am 31 and have had ADHD something fierce for as long as I can remember (which unfortunately isn't long). I always would use AIM or now FB messenger and I make sure to hit enter quite often without thinking about it to get what I am thinking out there before I lose my train of thought and then do something else completely...
I sometimes write blocks of text then get lost in it myself, re-read it and see I've repeated myself 3 times with different phrasing and left two sentences unfinished.
I like to be detailed, but I do better being concise.
I never realized thats why i do that.... i use the "..." so much and i never realized why. Didnt realize it was part of having ADHD.... been doing it as long as i can remember.
When people send me emails at work, i get irrationality upset at massive walls of text.... all i can see is how it could have been shortened into several bullet points
I have adhd and do that but never thought of it as an adhd thing. But friends always gave me shit for sending like 4 texts with separate ideas like that at a time
Shit, I thought that was just me being weird or something. I use spaces and/or "return"/next column to quickly jot down the brief ideas (even if it's just a word) that I'll further elab. on, and then have to arrange and compose my response from all that. It's like I'm vigorously taking notes/annotating during a lecture, except the lecture ... is my own thought processing.
I also just realized I use "/" a lot, and typically feel the need to add something in parenthesis, as well as prone to run-on sentences that I'll have to stop and edit. But this could just be something else
What's pretty amazing is the way that Dr. Barkley organizes his books (the ones geared toward those with ADHD anyway). I don't think there is a full-page wall of text in the entire tome - it's completely interspersed with tables, tips, anecdotes, and other useful info tucked into the main text. Drives my wife nuts but makes it easier for me to read it.
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Also FYI the ADHD subreddit is hilarious. We're so eager to dump feelings in 5000 word posts but NOBODY there can read any of it because it's too long.
We need to hire some normal folk to come in and TL;DR that shit for us.