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29 Jan 2009, 12:50 am

MizLiz wrote:
For those of you interested in this topic, "The Midnight Disease" by Alice W. Flaherty is a pretty good book (and cheap, mine was only like $10 at overstock.com but shop around). I read it a few years ago, before being diagnosed, so I don't remember if it mentions ASDs. It DOES mention epileptics having a tendency towards hypergraphia (which is why I read it since I also have epilepsy).

Anyway, I write a lot, but not a lot to qualify for hypergraphia. My dysgraphia gets too much in the way.


The Midnight Disease? That that mean staying up well past midnight because you've just got to write your thoughts down? Because that is what I do. Anyway, I shall check out the book.
I type, because writing gives me a hand cramp.



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29 Jan 2009, 1:18 am

I know how to induce hypographia 8)

It's a secret though unless you PM me your name, social security #, and bank account # :P



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29 Jan 2009, 2:24 am

Eh, yeahno.

I have a compulsive need to write certain genres, but it's anything but hyper in outcome. I struggle greatly to produce more than a few sentences of a story in an hour.

Just can't focus.

The words flow when I manage to write on a story, they come from who-knows-where then but quite soon I'm distracted and... full stop.

The compulsive part I can understand, but how a person manages to write more than a few words in a row - that's what I can't understand for the life of me.


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29 Jan 2009, 11:15 am

definite periods of it. i used to have these huge black bound art books filled with catrdigdge paper that were scrawled with column after column and page after page of my mirror -wriitng. l
i'd say i have a tendency for it.
but you knowwhat?

i am already replete with labels and couldn;t really give a toss.


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29 Jan 2009, 12:14 pm

I feel like the opposite of the posters here because I always write too little. I'm very brief when writing, relaying the necessary information and nothing else. This makes it very difficult to meet word counts but luckily as a mathematician I rarely have to write essays (I've got to do a 3000-4500 word one this term though :( )


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31 Jan 2009, 10:22 pm

I have a huge problem with writing concisely. If there's a word limit for a paper, I can't stick to it. Does anyone else have that problem? It really drags my grades down.