Hypergraphia and ASD

[RileyG]

Anyone with Autism experience Hypergraphia (writing or drawing excessively).

It does not necessarily need to be creative or structured.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

Get me near a forum with algorithms of threads !!!

Who tells you what's excessive anyway? (Why would people disapprove of something harmless instead of harmful)

Donna Williams pointed out perseveration happens because we hadn't yet developed a skill in initiative taking.

I sometimes alternate tasks every 30 minutes, and sometimes every 90 seconds.

That way excessive (filling in blanks) gets a look in, but so does everything else as well !!!

 

[RileyG]

Oh no, I never said it was harmful. I was just curious if anyone else experienced this. That's all.

God bless

 

[OldAbramBrown]

Do you mean it takes up time you could spend resting, or alternating it with something else?

 

[Clare73]

Anyone with Autism experience Hypergraphia (writing or drawing excessively).

It does not necessarily need to be creative or structured.

Do you mean it takes up time you could spend resting, or alternating it with something else?

Interesting. Not familiar with that.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

If it wasn't harmful, maybe it was creative after all. I'm heavily into sensing structures, maybe you mean loosely structured or presented as fragments?

 

[RileyG]

Do you mean it takes up time you could spend resting, or alternating it with something else?

Not necessarily. It's more of an intense desire to write and write and write. To document everything.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

Then it's creative, even if it's non-fictional. Set yourself up with simple materials / procedures. On file in laptop, or pieces of paper and pencil (keep paper & pencil by your bed). Rudimentary filing system or piles.

I have a "pile" for philosophy, history and science, one for words, and one for spirituality, dreams (very few) and jokes. And a fourth one for Youtube channels / reading list to perhaps look up another time. If I write in two places I indicate this alongside.

I've never heard this called "hypergraphia" before! I write things I've seen, things I've thought of, or potted versions of my reading / viewing of videos. Your imagination is the laboratory atop your shoulders, for investigating everything. If I overlap previous topics, I paraphrase a new way each time, practising my vocab. But that's just me!

Christians need more: philosophy, imagination, repetition (only not the vain kinds).