I have ADHD myself, but I can’t stand the sobs the ADHD people leave everywhere, makes me despise them. Learn to work with your impulses instead of whining all over the place about it.
‘I can’t write longer than a tweet.’ Here is a hundred tweets for you. Yeah, thank you very much.
They're posting thoughts as they flow on Twitter in threads. It's not a single tweet, it's a thread of many tweets.
Think of it as a livestream vs an edited video. In their case doing the content live is less resistance than cutting and polishing an edited video.. but in text form.
What's the difference between a twitter thread that requires more than one tweet, because of its length, and writing it in something that accepts the message as a whole?
Or hell, just a plugin that tweets a picture of the whole message?
I'm not suggesting that they hire an editor, do multiple passes, get a proofreader to give suggestions, etc...
This is actually what they said:
> Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?"
> CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. I have ADHD. I have bad ADHD that is being treated, and the treatment is NOT WORKING TERRIBLY WELL. I cannot focus on writing blog posts. it will not happen
> if I try to make a blog post, it'll end up being abandoned and unfinished, as I am unable to edit it into something readable and postable. so if I went 100% to blogs: You would get: no content I would get: lots of unfinished drafts and a feeling of being a useless waste
> but I can do rambly tweet threads. they don't require a lot of attention for a long time, they don't have the endless editing I get into with blog posts, I can do them. I do them a bunch! They're just rambly and twitter, which some people don't like
^^ that doesn't fit in a tweet. Yet their ADHD didn't prevent them writing it. Why is it a tweet?
In fact, the thread continues for several more statements. It's basically a blog post already, yet denying that they are able to write a blog post.
You seem to be quoting their reasoning but either not reading or accepting it, I'd just be quoting the tweets you've cited in your comment which seems like it'd just waste both of our time as you're already aware of them.
I'm not sure there's any further discussion to be had on this one.
> You seem to be quoting their reasoning but either not reading or accepting it,
I'm not accepting it, no. Because it's a self-contained contradiction. People are wrong all the time. I don't find it as baffling as you seem to.
If someone goes on a long tirade, in English, about how they can't speak English, and answers followup questions about it, then no I don't take them at their word. It'll be clear very quickly (in interactive questions) whether or not this is merely memorized sounds.
I've had a guy (on drugs) get afraid and argued to try to convince me that he did not have a pulse. I didn't need to check for a pulse to know he had one. He finally accepted my argument that "if you did not have a pulse then you would not be sitting here talking to me".
But... You just did. Even the argument itself is an example of how it's false.