DID, Healing, and Stream of Conscious

Vulnerability in Writing: What Most People Don’t Know

Daily writing prompt
What’s something most people don’t know about you?

To strangers? Everything.

The something is vague. Do we mean personality? Or interests? Likes and dislikes? What we do know is this question asks for vulnerability. A hard line that we struggle with. I’d say most don’t know we’re AuDHD, or even DID for that matter. I’d say most don’t know we feel so new at being human. That the rights and general know-how are learned aspects for us.

That it’s been over six months since we last touched this blog.

That therapy has been going well and we like our new therapist.

That life and time dilation really make adhering to projects difficult.

On a softer surface I’d say most don’t know we used to (and recently) write fanfiction. That the joy in it is… hard to encapsulate with words. We’re halfway through writing a long fic. The first in nearly a decade. And it’s been rewarding to stretch that muscle in our brain when it comes to writing prose.

The engagement isn’t everything. The fic is for ourself. A story we’d want to read. And it’s been so fun writing it as well as hearing it. We use a TTS for editing and to hear how it sounds. Some nights it’s like listening to a bedtime story and we’re able to sleep better because of it.

The real question (literal and rhetorical) is: what’s something you’d want to know about me?

2 responses to “Vulnerability in Writing: What Most People Don’t Know”

    1. A Dead Dove/Whump primarily as far as genre/type is concerned. There’s an odd sense of catharsis putting an MC through rough situations and seeing how they pull through, knowing it’s the outcome even as I write it.

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