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Regular people
can be very well intentioned, kind, helpful, and on time.
Regular people can laugh and smile and cry.
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But if they don’t, it won’t blow their day - or week or
month…
I like regular people, because they seem to have somehow contained chaos,
^
bottled it up, put it on the shelf for later – and they somehow manage to
keep it safely. Most of the time, at least, they are under control emotionally.
This is very useful.
The crazy ones
write it down, colour all over it, roll in it, and then they
spew ^
it all over everybody - they force you to pay attention to them, and to remember
them. And you will remember them.
They sing about it, dance with
it, move their bodies and their heartbeats to it.
They are the opposite. Raw emotions. Uncontained.
^
So beautiful - or grotesque - pure anger or pure happiness.
Children forever. Fuck protocol.
We can’t help ourselves. It grabs us, and we concede that control,
and it ^
makes us laugh and smile and cry – but it’s not the same as it was there
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It's like comparing apples and oranges.
Emotions are very important to people with ADD, and to contain them seems, well,
impossible. We can't take them out later, at the convenient time; we experience them
when they hit. We have to stop what we're doing and go. We could teach
ourselves a strategy - but why? It's too good a rush.
The regular people would suggest that it is best to schedule things, and put regular tasks
into routine times and places, to simplify things, make it all less stressful:
7:30 Wake up
7:31 Go to the bathroom, wash hands and face
7:33 Eat breakfast
7:45 Brush teeth
7:49 Get dressed
...and so on all the way through the day, itemizing everything, because habits don't come
easily to people with ADD, and they might well forget to brush their hair if it's not on
the list. And they might forget to do any one of those things even after years of
trying to form a habit around it. This will make it easier for them, the regular
people think. And they might go out and get creative consultation, and schedule in:
9:00PM View sunset
9:45PM Dance in your living room
But, I doubt if they would ever schedule:
11:00PM Run into old friend, drink Sangria for 4 hours, get inspired.
3:00AM Say 'stay in touch', mean it, knowing full well that they
likely won't.
3:10AM Attempt to get to sleep, fail.
4:00AM Start typing, do your best work.
6:00AM View sunrise
And, I double doubt that a person with ADD could handle:
7:30PM-9:30PM every other Thursday: Be creative.
It don't work that way. For all the good intentions. Might be worth a try
though.
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