#longwinded

My mind is like a #Rolodex spinning out of control, sometimes. And those of you who are old enough to have worked with the Rolodex, the real-thing will now what I mean ie how well it turns and keeps turning. What a great device this was.

Those of you who are too young to know what a Rolodex is, it was sort of a pre-computer #Database, #AddressBook, #Dictionary, a great place to store information when information was on paper only.

Atm, my mind is racing. I don't know if any of you with #ADHD or #Autism can relate; hopefully some of you can.

I get so overwhelmed sometime that my mind can race for days. I am very prone to interruptions and responsive to people who interrupt me as a way of being accepted, liked when I got on so many others' nerves. It did pay off in a way, but not without causing me major #MentalHealth issues.

Please bear with me. I will continue in the comments of this message. I don't want this to be too long. I'm considered by many #LongWinded and have been told so or teased about this all my life. Till I literally stopped talking and telling people about what mattered to me, except therapists.

#ToBeFollowed in comments. There may be delays in continuing this thread, but please bear with me.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

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@midgephoto You can do whatever you’d like! ;)

I didn’t mean to be so prescriptive, though reading it again, I sounded awful bossy.

Putting hashtags in the main text just means screen readers read the word “hashtag” every time, so yes, the fewer in the text the better, I think. One “hashtag” in the text is far less disruptive than every other word, for example.

The only real case I can see for it, though, is if you’re running out of characters in your post, like this one! #Longwinded

Sen. John Kennedy (R, Louisiana):

"Very few souls are won after the first 20 minutes of a sermon".

#senjohnkennedy #trumptrial #adamschiff #longwinded #redundant #democratmanagers

A reply to @joel_olbrich on the “QWERTY” effect. Apologies to Joel.I don’t know (yet) how to make replies public. BEGINS
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English language keyboards have a letter-layout begining QWERTY... apparently because this order facilitated the mechanical operation of early typewriters. There was no linguistic logic in the design: there seem to be several layouts that would be easier to learn and faster to use. But the early manufacturers standardised, by default, on the QWERTY layout and it became universal. No typewriter having a different layout would sell because users had accommodated to the idiosyncrasy of QWERTY. The “QWERTY Effect” is, by analogy, any structure, however idiosyncratic, that has been entrenched by use. But, on reflection, the “Twitter effect” is not due so much to its QWERTY-ness but to the natural monopoly effect of network scale economies. First movers in many network spaces (railways, airlines, telephone networks, Twitter) who secure large scale quickly can often block new entrants simply because the scale of investments needed to compete against the reach of their established network is too large for new entrants (who have no customers, at first) to justify. #longwinded