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Coffeemug

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My avitar is a picture of my hand outstreched letting a deer take an apple I'm holding.

I'm an aging fan of staying fully alive, born in '52, avid motorcyclist all my life (yes it's survivable) and am an admirer of all the fine arts and spend a lot of time reading. Northern Minnesota in the somewhat united states. ♥️#Playing For Change
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Susan60 , to ActuallyAutistic group
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My oldest sent me this. My head just exploded. The first draft of my first 3000 word essay in uni was 8000 words long.

My history essays at uni were labours of love. I could never understand the concept of “pulling an all-nighter” the night before the essay was due. How was such a thing even possible? You had to do hours & hours of reading, note-taking, reflection…
And then write & write & write all that stuff that begged to be said, and then cull & cull & cull & then rewrite to knit the remaining pieces together fluently… And somehow end up with a piece that sent shivers down your spine & got you an HD.

Didn’t you? Or was that just me?

When teaching narrative writing to teens, I could only teach it in a formulaic way. I could only write formulaic model texts. They were quite good, with some character development, voice, interesting vocab etc, but the structure was formulaic.

I could never imagine myself as a writing a novel. Quirky short pieces maybe, but not a novel. And yet my oldest wrote their first novella as a teen.

I need to lie down. Oh, I am. It’s 5am and my cat adoption excitement has woken me. I’m discombobulated. Again.

@actuallyautistic

https://autisticphd.com/theblog/what-is-bottom-up-thinking-in-autism/

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@Susan60 @actuallyautistic "discombobulated" You have just given new meaning to me for Disco Inferno...

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@Susan60 @actuallyautistic Yes!
Too often for me.

Coffeemug , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic Has "Autism & PDA" ever been talked about here? I can't find anything on it short of web searches. It seems to be a trait of Autism that's prevalent. It sure seems to apply to me.

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@catswhocode I'm trying to read up on it as I find time, PDA sure seems to be the cause of a lot of avoidance in my life.@actuallyautistic

Coffeemug OP ,
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@catswhocode I should have brought this subject up later in the day as I've got to run through the shower & head out to town...@actuallyautistic

Coffeemug OP ,
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@aaronesilvers I think it got progressively worse for me quickly. I went from your point to much worse in about 2 years. @actuallyautistic

Coffeemug OP ,
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@aaronesilvers Ha, there sure are plenty of things we have to consider. I think current world events over the last few years made it much worse for me. @actuallyautistic

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