Rewiring My Writing Brain
I've always struggled with the way my brain works. Some days everything is perfectly linear - all straight lines that make sense. Then there are other days where my brain feels like chaos. Up until this year, I just thought this was normal, but then I was diagnosed with autism & ADHD. I've known people with ADHD who epitomized the hyperactive aspect of what I thought ADHD was. It's been an eye-opening experience to go through it myself and find out exactly how ADHD has affected me personally. The "H" in my diagnosis is more hyper-focused driven. When I am interested in something, I want to know EVERYTHING about that specific thing: kpop, history, Greek mythology, gaming, k-dramas...the list goes on and on. Instead of getting the gist of something, I want to get all of the details my brain can compute. In some ways this is great, especially for writing purposes, because 99.9% of the time, a topic will come up that I've focused on ...