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Chris McEvoy's avatar

John, you have an authentic voice with a rich personality. I like.

I tend to write what is in my twisted brain, wait 20 minutes and then take about 63% of the words out, because I overthink everything.

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John Langley's avatar

Thank you, Chris. This means a lot!

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Helen's avatar

I would now like to see your piece pre-Grandma Lee, as it feels like we've been promised a wild and carefree river of neurodivergent verbal diarrhea and have instead got a very tidy and boring essay with punctuation in all the right places. No, all right, it wasn't boring- I was laughing...

I strongly suspect that neurodivergence is the norm, mind you, and neurotypical-ness is just for the robots.

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John Langley's avatar

Thanks, Helen. Well, as much as I'd like to oblige, the 'pre-Grandma Lee' you speak of - as with all my drafts- becomes overwritten, overwritten again, and usually again, until I reach something I'm happy to publish. Sorry!

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