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Do You Find It Useful To Write To Yourself?

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When I write to myself (normally about technical matters,) it helps me to understand and appreciate how differently my mind works, and how difficult it must be for someone "normal" to understand what I am trying to explain to them.......because I find it hard to use concise phrases and unobscured terms to express myself - even to myself?!

Personally, I do better at explaining myself verbally....but I certainly know that this is not common amongst autists?

How do you, most successfully, communicate complex things to other people.....and how can you know the answer to that question?

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  • I suppose I write to myself in a number of contexts.

    I’ve kept a journal since I was 17 and first experiencing mental health challenges. It’s mostly just a record of the events of my day (which is an immensely useful thing to have) but when something difficult has happened it can be useful to put it into words. Explaining something to myself is a good way to properly order my thoughts about it.

    I also script lots of conversations about difficult issues. I’ll write multiple drafts. And in the vast majority of cases I will eventually delete it and never have the conversation. This is often because exploring the different paths the conversation might take gives me enough understanding of the issue that no further action is necessary.

    But communicating complex things is an absolutely key part of my job and, in order, these are my preferred methods:

    • A picture
    • A slide deck
    • Prose
  • in reply to Deleted User

    Like you, I script a lot of conversations - but usually only do this in my head, very rarely writing the "workings" down (so I guess 'scripting' is a misnomer for my process?!)

    Like you, I believe a picture is worth at least a 1000 words......although peoples inability to "read" drawings or "see" pictures/photographs is an endless source of amazement to me.

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    Like you, I script a lot of conversations - but usually only do this in my head, very rarely writing the "workings" down (so I guess 'scripting' is a misnomer for my process?!)

    Like you, I believe a picture is worth at least a 1000 words......although peoples inability to "read" drawings or "see" pictures/photographs is an endless source of amazement to me.

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