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!)

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (4 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.

[–] MBM 1 points 11 months ago

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

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