Writing in Tangents: Centring the ADHDness of Ranting, Spirality and Curvimultipoint(s)

Working on a paper on self-help literature about and for ADHD women (still unfinished), Dyi struggled with finding her voice – ended up on tangents, TANGENTS was born. As an ADHDer writing about ADHDness, she realised academic neuronorms hindered her writing and, before that, her thinking. Knowing she was not unique in this, having observed other ADHD academics struggling with the same issue, she started to think around the argument that form = content in her recently published article “Tangent 1: How can we know? An intersectional feminist ADHD epistemology of ranting, spirality and curvimultipoint(s)” (download: https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/6362/). In Tangent 1 she experimented with a writing style that placed (her) ADHDness – as a dialect of “Neurodivergent Communication” (NDC) – at its centre to see what could emerge. In this talk Dyi reflects about what centring ADHDness in our NDC thinking and writing teaches us about ADHDness more generally.