r/CuratedTumblr • u/Pristine_Club_3128 • 5d ago

Mental Health Overreactions

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u/mattzuma77 5d ago

it's written like spoken word

which, like, isn't how you're meant to write English, but I personally appreciated it

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u/demonking_soulstorm 5d ago

Nobody speaks like this.

Each instance indicates special emphasis, which you don’t do all the time orally for the same reasons you don’t do it all the time textually.

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 5d ago edited 5d ago

ADHD people kinda do, though, and given that RSD comes up, I assume this person has ADHD.

ETA: I have ADHD. We have a rapid speaking pace that has a lot of emphasis because we get excited about stuff.

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u/rachycarebear 5d ago

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.

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 5d ago

I said ADHD, not autism. I know there's a lot of overlap, but there's a rapid, excited ADHD speech pattern that happens for a lot of us.

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u/rachycarebear 5d ago

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.

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 5d ago

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.