The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)
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@dvoraen @Auspice I do my very best to spellcheck, which is why I still have my paid copy of simplemu from like 20 years ago. But sometimes I press enter before i can even look back and oh well thems the breaks.
Also I do redundancies a lot too because sometimes i write my poses like frankenstein made his monster, going back, cutting and pasting things in different orders, etc.
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@Wretched ...I was going to say definitely not in my case, but... well, I do have to know part of what my character is going to do or say or have something specific that amuses me metawise to respond to part of things or I can't get started. But... beyond that, I often don't know where else it's going until it does. And I very definitely do the cut-and-paste frankenstein pose writing thing. Often the thing I started with ends up in the middle, or I get hit with what the end of the pose should be before I've written most of what comes in between... I usually have a blank file open in notepad++ to paste bits that get cut from a pose into so I can (I hope) use them in the next pose or later in the scene because they didn't really fit right in the one I wrote them in.
Sometimes I also get lost between paragraphs and have to go reread various parts of poses, or I have to go look up synonyms because I know what I want to say but the right word won't come on its own and my brain refuses to use the similar-but-not-right one.
I'm good on the spelling and (mostly) the proofreading and usually catch the redundancies, though. I'm also a pretty slow writer/poser. This fact is not unrelated to any of the rest of this post.
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This is why I love my DuckClient... it just uses the same spell check as the rest of my internet browser.
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@Wretched ...also, figured I'd mention BeipMU has spellcheck, if you ever decide you want a client that's not abandoned.
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@Ninjakitten Yeah I have it downloaded but it's not familiar, if I do switch, it'll likely be biep, because I really like it, but changing habits takes mental energy and space and right now I am spinning too many plates already.
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Atlantis conveniently underlines my spelling borks, which helps warn me if I'm going to commit a stupid. It's fairly rare? But I eyetic when I'm using a 'sooooo' or a name that it blips over.
I need a 'punctuation, it's a thing!' and a 'Did you really intend for that sentence to ramble on for six lines?' check.
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I wish I could control my brain. Just now and then, even. So I don't have 8 million thoughts screaming through my brain, freaking me out when I'm in a dark space. That I could sleep. Just... frustrated, right now. Clearly the 'anxiety' meds isn't doing what she expected. Fuck this shit.
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@Macha All the hugs. I get this, too.
Lay down, start to drift off, then it's like a fear drops straight down like an ice cube down my back, and since all of those are kept together in a mental thought cluster, all the rest go, 'wheeee, time to playyyyyyyyy!' and, welp, then I'm up.
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@Macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
I wish I could control my brain. Just now and then, even. So I don't have 8 million thoughts screaming through my brain, freaking me out when I'm in a dark space. That I could sleep. Just... frustrated, right now. Clearly the 'anxiety' meds isn't doing what she expected. Fuck this shit.
What may be happening, if it happens at night, is the meds are wearing off.
The anxiety meds I'm on, I take twice a day. But I absolutely, if I stay up too late, hit the window of my anti-depressant wearing off.
You may just need the dosage adjusted or a different time schedule to take it on.
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@Auspice I wish, but it could be 2 in the afternoon when I need a nap. The speeding thoughts is making me feel like it's doing the opposite of getting better, lately.
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Wait, there are people who plan their poses before they write them?
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Hit a hyperfocus zone right before I was due in a meeting.
Meeting reminder: 15 minutes
Me: OK, cool, I'll head up in 10.
20 minutes later, my Skype dings: 'Hey are you coming to this meeting?'Siiiiiiiigh.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Yeah, I've been there. I feel ya.
Edited to add: One way I deal with it is set an alarm to go off the time the meeting is supposed to start, so when it goes off I know I have to get up and leave.
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@Alamias said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Auspice Yeah, I've been there. I feel ya.
Edited to add: One way I deal with it is set an alarm to go off the time the meeting is supposed to start, so when it goes off I know I have to get up and leave.
I SO RARELY hit those hyperfocus states that it's just... not a thing I think of. Usually I'm glancing at the time glancing at the time glancing at th- fuck it, I'll just get there 5 minutes early.
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@Selira said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Wait, there are people who plan their poses before they write them?
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@Alamias said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Edited to add: One way I deal with it is set an alarm to go off the time the meeting is supposed to start, so when it goes off I know I have to get up and leave.
I always have two alarms for anything important:
- Hey you have to go soon.
- HEY YOU REALLY HAVE TO GO NOW
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@faraday said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Alamias said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Edited to add: One way I deal with it is set an alarm to go off the time the meeting is supposed to start, so when it goes off I know I have to get up and leave.
I always have two alarms for anything important:
- Hey you have to go soon.
- HEY YOU REALLY HAVE TO GO NOW
I do 3. One at 15 minutes, one at 5 then one when I need to go.
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On the days I need to get up at 245am for work at 330am...
- 2:45 - get up
- 2:47 - just in case you hit snooze.
- 2:50 - Your SO will kill you out of bed at this point.
- 3:25 - You should be at work at this point so double check everything is in place.
- 3:30 - Start working.
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I used to use an alarm on my phone where all I needed to do was lift my phone up and set it back down to snooze.
Alexa is my morning alarm now because half the time I can't manage to speak clearly enough to say 'Alexa, stop' or 'Alexa, snooze' and by the time I figure out what even are words I'm awake.
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