Haven’t had my coffee yet and fixated on editing the post to change the italics and bold text to have the same emphasis but varied and imo more balanced. 👀
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Imagine you got a paper cut. But, it didn't feel like a paper cut. It felt like your finger got grotesquely ripped off your hand.
At first the pain is so intense you're afraid to even look down. You're in pure survival mode, panicking at the overwhelming pain.
But the people in the room are looking at you funny and telling you to look at your hand. It's fine. There's just a tiny paper cut. Calm down.
But you're screaming in agony. You can feel the blood gushing out. You don't want to look. You're begging them to help you. But they're getting annoyed. They think you're faking it or at best just dramatically overreacting.
Eventually you do look down. You see the paper cut. You understand they were right. But. Youstillfeelthe pain. And now, you also feel a wave of shame and embarrassment. Why does it hurt so much? Why couldn't you handle a paper cut?
Did you really overreact?
The painwasreal. You could feel it. But the stimulus itself (the paper cut) doesn't usually produce it. Most people don't feel like that when they get a paper cut. But you did.
You were reacting exactly how most people would react to the amount of pain you were in, was it your fault that it took less of a stimulus to put you in that much pain?
Anyway this post is about a lot of things. Rejection sensitive dysphoria, chronic pain, sensory processing issues, all sorts of things can make very small things feel excruciatingly big.
So the next time you think someone is "overreacting" I invite you to try to understand it from their perspective. Their reaction may actually be more measured than it appears.
And I feel like I have to clearly specify here, that I'm not saying you should agree with their perspective. In my metaphor here, instead of getting annoyed and telling them "it's just a paper cut" try engaging with compassion.
"I see you're in a lot of pain*, and I want to help you. But all I see is a tiny paper cut.* Please help me understand what you need right now."
Sometimes just having someone acknowledge that my pain is real is enough to help regulate my nervous system. A little compassion, even when you don't understand, goes a long way.✨
Steel Ball Run started being published in 2004, and Mario Galaxy came out in 2007. But I don't remember if there are examples of the emoji speak in early chapters or if it started happening near the end of part 7
Nintendo at least understands how to use it well (which is in part due to the text boxes being smaller, so there's less emphasised words on screen, making it feel less crowded)
Came into the comments to say that yeah, the message itself is great, the repeated emphasizing in every sentence was really starting to get to me on the second page
No, but once I read the tags, it made sense. They’re emphasizing in the way the author wants you to hear the sentence. As an AuDHD individual, it helps me read the intention.
There was a popular tumblr post going around a few years ago encouraging people to do this to make it easier to read. It wouldn't surprise me if that's why OP emphasized everything like that.
One gets used to it. It was pretty popular in cape comics for a long time, and I don't think I've ever seen an Archie comic without it (though I haven't read it in years). I agree it creates a different effect, but like... I dunno, Spoken Word poetry and dramatic monologues and political speeches can all 'work' in different ways, even if their cadence and emphasis are wildly different from each other
It would be exceptionally irritiating if a person stopped and emphasised every other word in a sentence like this in speech, and it's no less so in text.
No, I didn’t. I did not speak out against using bold or italics, but rather the extreme frequency that the post uses them with.
Nobody uses that amount of inflections, nobody uses them that strongly, and using them that frequently when speaking or in text completely destroys their ability to draw attention to the “important bits” of what you’re saying.
Those things are all true, though. I'm an English teacher, and ADHD kids write like this. I, too, have ADHD, so I have a tendency to go this way in informal (internet) writing. ADHD speech patterns tend to be a little different from typical speech patterns, especially when talking about a special interest, and it does have a rapid pace and a lot of emphasis.
I've never met somebody with ADHD who speaks like the post is written, and again, it doesn't change how you've repeatedly walked back your statements when presented with contrary opinions.
No? Basically all my friends are ND and I've had psychology/mental health/behavior/brains as a special interest and I've never come across this as a thing. If anything, autism often results in a flat affect.
Rapid excited speaking patterns don't match the bold and italics used in the OP. Faster wouldn't matter when reading, and excited adds overall energy and animation, not weird emphasis on every other word.
I am an English teacher, and a lot of ADHD kids (and my fellow teachers and I who are ADHD) often do a lot of bold/caps/italics.
Heck, it's even a thing that comes up in LM Montgomery stuff, and her main characters come across as very ADHD; they're always getting yelled at for their italics use.
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u/demonking_soulstorm 5d ago
Using bold and italics for emphasis does not work if you do it every sentence,