…and then I found five dollars!
*Edited to use original source with artist’s credit
Wait… You guys make it to the end of the story?
ADHD has become the new “I’m so random” for 13 year old girls. Before they realize nobody gives a shit.
Have I just been diagnosed?
Thank you. I saved this years ago and didn’t know the source. I’m going to swap this in.
there we go, thank you
They are as good at talking as they are poor at listening. :)
Some of them predict what you are going to say and interrupt you as well when you are talking, so they can get back to talking. Lol.
I once asked someone why they do that and she said because its boring to wait for me to finish talking.
I guess their brains are always full of things to say and there is too little time to say it, specially when someone else talks and takes up time…
Um, there’s a mollusk, see…And he walks up to a sea, well he doesn’t walk up, he swims up. Well, actually the mollusk isn’t moving. He’s in one place and then the sea cucumber, well they… I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I… There was this mollusk and he walks up to a sea cucumber. Normally, they don’t talk, sea cucumbers, but in a joke, everyone talks. So the sea mollusk says to the cucumber…
With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Curse of parenting a kid that loves Finding Nemo: I identified that dialog by the time I hit the first ellipses.
I was just about to say “the blessing of being a full grown adult that loves finding Nemo”…
I always wanted to hear that joke the right way…
I think the best way to tell the story is by starting at the end, briefly, then going back to the beginning, and then periodically returning to the end, maybe giving different characters’ perspectives throughout. Just to give it a bit of dynamism, otherwise it’s just sort of a linear story.
Practice, practice, practice. The best stories have been told 100x and the presenter adjusts each new telling to fit the audience.
I know this and still tell stories like the second pane, haha
The best stories have been told 100x
I had a coworker like that, thank god he retired early.
It’s important that those 100x are to different people.
Your coworker sound like my grandpa.
My grandpa had a handful of stories that he told over and over again. Yes, it got a little hard to laugh and react at the correct parts after 20 listens. But I must say that I would absolutely love the chance to travel back in time and hear him spin one of his yarns again.
Same.
Every time I visited him, even if it was the third time that week, he would break out a small flashlight he replaced the incandescent bulb with a (very dim) led, tell me about how LEDs work, and demonstrate the fact that it won’t work in reverse…
I still have the flashlight.
If it’s any consolation, most of my favorite facts I’ve learned about my closest friends have been because they lost the plot while telling a story.
Starts talking
30 minutes later “Ah shit… I forgot where this was going.”
Might want to look into getting tested for ADHD if this resonates with you. This is a more accurate representation of how our brains work than the old “squirrel” joke.
Tested and medicated, still have that problem. Wat do?
Tamara?
With age this improves: I can now come back to were I left the story after I went down on a tangent, even after going down tangents of the tangent.
(Well, usually).
This could have been a straight line with the same nodes and edges. Maybe some 90 degree turns to stay in a square image format.
I think that’s kinda the point.
Then it should have been called ADHD storytelling and illustrating.
That seems unnecessary, the intent was very clear.
The graph is needlessly confusing. If you wanted to describe the ADHD storytelling process, a clearer graph would be easier to read.
I spent like 3 hours doing this to explain the Gundam UC timeline to somebody once. Except for the apologizing part. Why would I apologize for that? It was glorious.
