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Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by prepend on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:48AM (#20081206)
It’s good he found something that works, but that is an illogical explanation. How does he have too much ADHD to save drafts one paragraph at a time, but not enough to stop him from tinkering with an awesome thrift store computer for hours?
Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by Jaruzel on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:56AM (#20081240)
ADHD is a bit like autism, in that many sufferers can obsess over a single thing/topic/interest, but be unable to focus on anything else.
Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by icelancer on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:17AM (#20081322)
>> illogical

Yes, that's what ADHD does to you.

Source: Have it. Not as severe as Foone, but I empathize.

Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by NathanWilliams on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:00AM (#20081257)
Ah, so I take it you don’t have ADHD then? Tinkering is something you can lose touch with time on. Writing brings with it self doubt, worry about how it will be read.

I send very clear emails (or so my colleagues tell me), but each one takes forever to write.

Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by prepend on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:31AM (#20081384)
I do have ADHD, it’s odd that you would presume I don’t.

This is why I thought the “too adhd to blog” is odd because there are blogging platforms easier than twitter. Even Wordpress has drafts where you can update one sentence at a time.

All the futzing and sequencing to get this out of twitter requires lots of effort that seems, to me, similar or greater effort than other formats that wouldn’t make me abandon an otherwise interesting post.

Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by NathanWilliams on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:28AM (#20081603)
My apologies, didn’t meant to assume you didn’t. I guess I should have stated how I can empathise with the author, as I can spend a lot of time perfecting something longer like a blog, but a twitter thread is incremental without the option to go back and edit.