Reading Posts

[Keppig]

How many of you read the whole post before hitting the reply or close botton?

I have to admit, I read a person's post but if there is something that grabs me, I will stop reading and reply immediately... I do read the whole thing after I post though... so don't be too mad at me I have to admit when I get a thought in my head I have to post!

[smooch]

What about a poll choice for those of us (or the one of me!) that'll read through a whole post, then go back and re-read certain parts many times while I'm composing my reply (and often get logged off because I've been "inactive" for too long....)?

Or would that actually already fall under one of those choices and I just don't see it? (typical of me!)

[waywardclam]

I usually read the whole post, but if there is a huge thread with 20+ replies or people posting entire pages of writing, I will skim and skip ahead.

What I often find myself doing is skipping ahead to compose PART of my reply and then going back to finish reading before composing the next part, etc.

[ferrette1976]

Back to this reading thing! Sorry guys, but sometimes I have a hard time reading posts - even if I want to! UGH!

[joanrdtobe]

I will read entire posts if it is the first post in a thread....

I like short posts with short paragraphs

I will ususally read an entire post if paragraphs are short even if post itself is long.....ESPECIALLY if subject is interesting.......What makes me a little batty are unusally long posts with paragraphs that are also unusally long...

Yes I will start a reply before I have completed reading a post...and then go back and finish the post -- because I get worred that my "answer" to the post doesn't really -- answer the post

[Lafnalot]

Ok whats the subject/

I'm kidding...I have ocpd so I have this need to begin at the beginning but ADHD and BP takes over and I start skipping spots or areas that dont seem to pertain to my mood at the moment.

[joanrdtobe]

Mood? Read what I'm in the MOOD for? and don't read what I'm NOT in the mood for? Hmmmm...what a great concept....

[Jonathan]

Spot on, all of you (ie what ALL of you say applies to me too), though unlike Kassie I would rarely actually submit a post if I hadn't fully read the 'relevant' posts (I quite often write an impulsive reply or part-reply, but I won't send it till I've checked - and quite often scrap the whole thing at this stage.

Funny that whole combination of impulsive and compulsive elements, careless one minute, perfectionist the next, whose special logic and dynamics only an ADDer would understand (intuitively) (I imagine).

[joanrdtobe]

Originally posted by Jonathan


Funny that whole combination of impulsive and compulsive elements, careless one minute, perfectionist the next, whose special logic and dynamics only an ADDer would understand (intuitively) (I imagine).

BINGO!! Careless one minute, perfectionist the next....SO true....is this the "all or none" or extremist thing many ADD'ers have OR is the perfectionist trying to "undo" or simply "fix" what the impulsive/careless part of me did.....

Quite frankly my impulsive/carelessness behaviors scare the heck out of me sometimes....that fear is what I believe drives my perfectionism......hmmmm.....if only I could find a happy medium....

[Lafnalot]

A Happy Medium............her name is Shirly and she is on the Courage the Cowardly Dog show regularly

[joanrdtobe]

.....never heard of that show..... When is it on?

[Jellybean]

Hey, this interesting to me. I really can relate to everyones replies. Gave me a feeling of oneness among you ADDer's

[Garry]

I like the posts that are broken down into paraghaphs with aline between each paragraph

I find them easer to read and comprehend

[smooch]

Originally posted by joanrdtobe



BINGO!! Careless one minute, perfectionist the next....SO true....is this the "all or none" or extremist thing many ADD'ers have OR is the perfectionist trying to "undo" or simply "fix" what the impulsive/careless part of me did.....

Quite frankly my impulsive/carelessness behaviors scare the heck out of me sometimes....that fear is what I believe drives my perfectionism......hmmmm.....if only I could find a happy medium....

Ditto!

[Spirit]

hmm..Now this was one that was hard for me to answer. I read the whole post if it is interesting to me at the time. I skim some post if it's moderately interesting. And if I'm just not real interested in all of it, but want to have my 2 cents added. I will usually only respond to parts of it.

Oh Geesh there goes my ADD, OCD battles again..lol Part of me thinks I need to read the post front to back and back to front to be sure I grasped everything and then the ADD kicks in and i say oh to heck with it..just put your 2 cents in and move on to something else already..