The Life Argotic

Writing is hard for me. One of the excuses I often make for not writing is the dearth of information that already exists out in the world on the topic I wish to write about. But the reality is that writing is difficult with ADHD sometimes. Even when I want to write solely for myself, I struggle to keep things linear and cohesive. My ideas bounce all over the place. And just like when a pinball hits a bumper, there is no telling which way it may get flung. I star writing one thought down and find myself meandering through tens if not hundreds of adjacent thoughts. Then I overthink those tangents and begin to worry that those ideas should be in their own pages/posts or that those topics don’t belong on my blog. But what is worse, this feeling of something not belonging doesn’t just apply to my blog posts. I have gone through countless journals, notebooks, and planners in the past few years (and probably my life) where the exact same thing happens.

In today’s example, I was writing about the current problems with the Florida school standards issue when I started to notice that the whole topic was spiraling out of control with countless subtopics, tangents, and whole ass run on sentences that even I couldn’t decipher, even though I had just written them.

In this way, there is no so-what. I don’t know how to overcome some of these issues that more often than not plague me in my work and my school. My hope is that writing them down here will at least let me log them.