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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember being so sad as a child that no one would listen to my stories; I was so immensely interested in what I was talking about and to see people just start gazing off really hurt.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Either I do this, or jump straight into the middle of a story with zero context

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to start in the middle then once started remember there's important details at the start then add those until the story is jumbled mess no one even myself is interested in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Start somewhere in the middle and fix the undefined variables later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do this. I already started the conversation in my head and then started talking to my wife in mid-mind conversation. She's always confused.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Me doing some worldbuilding (no it's not for a game or novel, it just happens)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

My wife showed me this, and in the process of explaining it, she did this. It was quite fun, kind of like bingo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh God yeah, I've done this a lot.With meds and practice I've gotten a lot better about being concise, but I'll still sometimes end up rambling on for a good long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What Canadians and ADHDers have in common.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is me so much. I even have supervisors groaning when someone asks me a question at work because I can't stop talking for like 30 minutes and I cansee them edging away but I have to finish my current chain of thought or I won't remember and it'll bug me all night.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I feel the "apologize" at the end so much 😂 but yes that's mostly how I've always been doing it I don't remember exactly since when but at least since I can remember which is probably since I was 12 or something my memory is really bad (I can't remember what happened yesterday by now).

I do know that that was pretty much how I formed an argument recently on here as well I think but it was mostly coherent as far as I know I do still always apologize at the end of texts or speech if I know I've been talking too long which I do like to do.
What helps is putting in some paragraphs and new lines though in terms of readability which I always try to do when it makes sense but I'm not always sure when to put paragraphs and when to put new lines but still better than to write a single block of 5000 words like an essay. It took me a while to learn that though in school I used to, for the longest time, write single blocks.

Anyways at this point in the text I'd usually already have forgotten what I had written at the beginning, I guess that's maybe the point where I should just stop because nobody's reading it to this point anyways.

Sorry for the text wall I hope it was at least as readable as possible!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My boss has ADHD and every meeting with him is like this haha. He's a nice guy though so I don't mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

this one hits close to home

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And then I found a 20 on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I brain fart mid story and heart goes brrt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget: context context context

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is exactly why I can never be the DM in a DnD-type game. My players would just slowly drift off before I finished the exposition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So, how many of you are doing an epilogue, too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

First should be [starts the story in the middle without context] - [realizes people don’t understand what you’re talking about]- ….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I call this non-linear story telling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some say, they're still telling their story to this day.