quinintheclouds:

ADHD culture is overusing ( ) and — and ; and … in everything you write because you have so many side thoughts that just GO there and wouldn’t make sense anywhere else

New tag game: are you a Too Many (Parenthesis) ADHD, a Too Many — em dashes — ADHD, a Too; Many; Semicolons; ADHD, or a Too…. Many…. Ellipses… ADHD…? 

OKAY YOU STUPIDLY BEAUTIFUL WRITERS OF CHAOS AND SELF-EXPRESSION here are hella relatable ADHD grammar and punctuation compiled from the comments. 

so aside from side thoughts, ADHD culture is writing to express/clarify things like:

• emphasis 
• complex explanation
• idea parsing or breaking down into parts
• but also multipart build-up/nesting/connecting/meandering
• feeling
• tone
• pauses
• hesitations
• insertions
• written equivalent of both verbal and nonverbal cues/expressions

which we like to make manifest thru:

• commas
• also aggressive lack of commas/punctation
• paragraph/line breaks
• also large text blocks
• brackets
• footnotes
• lengthy sentences and run-ons
• lots of clauses
• hyphenated compound words
• capslock aNd yeLLiNG
• italics
• ???
• !!!!
• bulletpoints
• “etc”

ppl likely pointed to some of these already but i would also like to add:

• colons
• slashes
• #tagline subcomments
• different colored fonts and highlights
• bold text
• lots of conjunctions
• split infinitives (fight me)
• Capitalization for Importance
• S P A C E S
• basically ways to visually signal emphasis, distinction, and organization

do you ever feel unbearably frustrated or constrained by conventions of writing? i.e. linear presentation of ideas or narrative, argument that “progresses” by building on previous points, intro-thesis-support-conclusion structure, the beginning-to-end nature of reading and writing, etc… 

if you could write in a way that better suits your ways of thinking, speaking, or sense-making, what might that look like? or, what are some practices that have helped liberate you from the mold? how would you change up structure, style, or medium? would you incorporate other sensory modes like visuals, audio, or physical materials? 

I have an associate way of thinking, and I often visualize my ideas in mindmaps with networked, interconnected, ecological points. I’m thinking of inserting such a mindmap in a paper. writing in websites with multiple sections/pages have helped in some ways too, though often, there’s still linearity in how we navigate menu bars. I want to explore other stategies and tools that could empower us.

I’m interested in flipping the script - questioning and reimagining it.

When you’re autistic but your therapist uses metaphors to help you understand

[ID: a gif of a man in a tuxedo with a microphone looking confused and saying “but I don’t get it.”]

flavoracle:

dearbisexual:

dearbisexual:

dearbisexual:

dam……..that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

for some reason, with this website, i was able to complete small tasks ive been fruitlessly bugging myself to do for weeks??

anyway, i feel almost good now :^)

im glad this got some notes!!!! i hope it helps y’all find some measure of peace or comfort <3

Reblogging for my own reference later, and in case it benefits anyone else reading this.

frogpronouns:

what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I’ll like it, I can’t watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don’t know when that will be, and I don’t have any more control over it than you do.

Movies, Books and comics too and I’m sorry it’s just the way my brain works

nattfjaril:

i need people to understand that whereas theres nothing wrong with being disabled, a disability does imply a defect or damage. it means that something isnt working properly. autism is not any kind of defect or damage. nor is it caused by any kind of defect or damage.

autistic brains are functioning as they should. optimally. and are a natural variation in the same sense that any normative variation in personality is.

autism is not a disability.

autism is not a disorder.

the fact that autistic people have a harder time than others in modern society is not evidence that autism is the cause, but that modern society is flawed and has not taken us into account.

arguing that autism is a disability is equal to arguing that being transgender or gay is a disability, because it is a variation in much the same way and it negatively impacts the person with that label for much the same reasons.

Reblogging with original tags.

thearoagenda:

57circlesofhell:

I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full. And you don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and you’re sick of the taste and you don’t know if you will ever enjoy food again and you don’t know why this is happening.

If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says, “Well have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?” It isn’t necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everything…tasted…like mashed…potatoes.

tigerator:

before you ever even consider having a child you should be ready to handle a disabled child, you should be ready to handle twins, you should be ready to handle a gay child or a trans child

because if you’re not ready for your child to be anything other than one straight, cis, able bodied and able minded child, you’re going to end up neglecting and abusing somebody for years to come

and even if your child is all that, you might have a feminine boy or a masculine girl on your hands. so be fucking ready for your child to be a human being and not YOUR PRODUCT or PROPERTY or CREATION

fucking sort your shit out, i am so tired of shitty parental sob stories about how “hard” it is to “raise” (read: beat the divergency out of) an autistic child or whatever. do you know what’s harder? being the divergent child of parents who you’ve already let down by virtue of existing in a way they didn’t ask for. putting up with years of neglect and abuse because you’re just not good enough for them, you weren’t what they were planning for or expecting.