Do you keep a diary?

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no, but i have thought about it for several years.. but still no diary

I have kept a diary continuously from I was about 11 (wrote a little before that time, but not much). I have never bothered to write daily, I see no point, I just write down things that have been important to me, and dreams I've had that were interesting in some way.
It's color coded: Real events are written in blue, dreams in red.

How do you people start an entry? I always do it like this:

I keep a diary. I have filled about 6 since 2008 when I began to write in diaries. But I don´t write something everyday. I like it to write my thoughts down because I have more structure in them later and I think it is interesting to read older thoughts later when a lot time has passed.

How do you people start an entry? I always do it like this:
Quote:
Thursday 14/3:
followed by the time if that's relevant. I never start with "dear diary", that just seems so weird to me.

Well, if I wrote in it today, I'd start it with: 14 marca 2013, czwartek - 14 March 2013, Thursday. "Dear diary" is a weird and childish way of starting an entry. You just start to describe what happened to you this day. I have a lot of entries written on loose sheets, which I have to copy into my diary - it's a VERY original one, a handmade one, with its covers made of red leather with a demonic face on it - I won it in a contest, it costs a lot but I got it for free. My model of perfect diary is the one L. M. Montgomery kept.

Maybe ever since that time, some other person started to keep one?

I had a livejournal from 2004-11, but it fell into disuse and I shut it down.

Aside from that, not really.

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Yes, I have had many journals. I keep one today. I had my journal raided before in the past, and that made me angry. So, I'm usually more careful when keeping a journal.

Well, I've got a diary but I've never used it. I've recently bought a safe for my room so perhaps I might start using one since I now have a safe place to put things I wouldn't want to be perused by others.

Nope. I'll keep my crazy thoughts to myself - less trouble that way.

Maybe ever since that time, some other person started to keep one?

A friend gave me a journal. I need to start writing it in again.

I've kept a daily diary a few times for a short while, but usually as a way to monitor myself when I'm taking medication or having counselling etc., so really only impressions of my mood, without much detail of events. If I tried to do it every single day as a matter of routine, most days would just say; "same again".

I have always kept a lot of scribblings and jottings though; they're a pretty random collection, but they do span my life - letters from friends, notebooks with my draft replies, school magazine articles, drafts of song lyrics, flyers from gigs I went to, notes to take to therapy sessions etc. I have found many of them fascinating to read again since my autism diagnosis; the growing awareness that I was different to other people is very apparent, and I was more accurate in my insights into the working of my own mind than I ever gave myself credit for at the time. Some of the more personal song lyrics from my early twenties perfectly sum up "help, I'm an overwhelmed autistic person having a burn-out!".

One of my therapy prep' notes in particular made my jaw drop; it was from my first course of CBT, when I was in my mid 20s; over two decades before an autism assessment was suggested. At that time, I knew almost nothing about autism, nor had any inclination to find out, and would have laughed at anyone who suggested that I was autistic, despite how badly I was struggling. Yet, you could almost tick off one-by-one all of the autism diagnostic criteria, and a whole load of other autistic traits and experiences that I only learned about since joining WP and other online communities. It describes most of my social problems, poor executive functioning, sensory sensitivities, and my inability to judge how any of these compared to the people around me.

I does make me wish that I'd made an effort to write more down. I'm certainly glad that I have hung on to the stuff that I have, even if some of it does make me cringe with embarrassment!

Two weeks ago there was the first anniversary of my keeping a diary and I'm going to keep it until the day I die - like some other famous diarists did, like Robert Shields, for example, for many, many years - but, of course, I'm not going to write down EVERYTHING like he did - this poor guy was spending about four hours every day, describing what he was doing - EVERYTHING.

I used to journal on almost a daily basis, sometimes writing for hours at a time, but for some reason, a year or so ago, I stopped. I wonder if it might be beneficial for me to start again. It used to be all that kept me sane.

When I'm already done with this journal, when its sheets are already filled up, I'm going to order another one - this time a Paperblanks one - for the points I gathered on my paid survey website account

It will be one of those:
https://www.empik.com/notes-arabic-arti ... iernicze-p
https://www.empik.com/notes-flexis-lind ... iernicze-p
https://www.empik.com/notes-flexis-tesl ... iernicze-p