Hypergraphia

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I have hypergraphia. Was wondering if there are any other Aspies who have this?

I used to get "complaints" from teachers saying that they couldn't lift my homework assignments, if that's what you mean!

They used to say: "You didn't restrict yourself there did you?"

I've often been criticised for going into extraneous detail when I fear I was going to fail. One teacher said:

"You got full marks for the first four pages, I don't need to read anymore!"

The poor man looked so tired that we both agreed to throw the last ten pages in the bin, much to his relief. I usually end up writing a thesis when I should have written an essay.

I write lots of random things when I feel bored, sometimes lines of poetry.
I find this gets worse if I don't have any formal written work to deal with or feel very lonely. Sometimes write/type lots of text when other people don't listen to me and I feel ignored.

I sometimes try to write analyses of how I perceive life to try and help myself. I hope that it will help others.

I don't know if this is really hypergraphia or not.

Is there a specific test for it?
What's the word limit?

I'd like to get paid for writing one day, but the question is how?
I'll have to think of something worthwhile to write about.

Last edited by AmberEyes on 28 Jan 2009, 4:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I've heard of dysgraphia, but not hypergraphia.

I have strong urges to write occasionally while I am online, which leads to some of the long and rambling posts you may see of mine on these forums and others.

I don't think it comes anywhere close to being an obsession though.

I used to experience it until I was old enough to bring my special interests into physical realization and then it subsided a little.

autie,not aspie but have done what hypergraphia describes for as long as can remember,still do it regulary, and its just manic scribbling-nothing that makes sense,am do it on leg a lot,arms,the wall,the staff report books etc.
parents,teachers and staff told am off/still tell am off for doing it,though it isnt to get reactions,attention or anything like that,just dont know why do it.

Oh no! not another thing that I would qualify for!!

I thought maybe that I had dysgraphia because my handwriting is so terrible and inconsistant.

I might be a reformed hypergraphia person, because I don't scribble madly away the way I used to, but ever since I was a kid I always had to have a notebook to write in with me at my school desk and everywhere I went.
They got confiscated over and over and over again.
I kept trying to write stories that I could never finish.
I have a huge plastic tub in my storage room that is filled to the brim with old notebooks.
I have had a tendancy in the past to write really dense letters to people and really obsessive journals....I have hundreds of random pages of brainstorming and lists everywhere....

Maybe that is hypergraphia.

It is not as intense as it used to be.
Part of this has to do with unlimited access to computers....but I do spend more time writing on forums than i should....

I used to have intense hypergraphia as a kid, even to the point of writing on walls and furniture if nothing else was available (or close enough). I have trained myself out of it for the most part, but it starts to kick in now and then when I get overly agitated. Never nearly as intrusive as it used to be, though.

I guess I'm hypergraphic too. Moreso with numbers and images than actually writing out sentences but I still manage to squeeze in a good portion of prose poetry too.

It sounds like what some of my schoolteachers variously termed "verbal vomiting" and "verbal diarrhoea" and I've certainly had plenty of bouts of that in the past.

I was terrible in elementary school, all my scribblers were filled with drawings
and amusing scribbles, I was always a better drawer then writer because of my
dysgraphia.

I love to write. If I find a subject I am interested in, I will read and write about often.

I'm not sure if I have this. I have moments where my brain just comes up with the most wild ideas and the most detailed stories, and I'd like to write them down but once I do it's not as good as it is in my mind. I really want to write stories but my mind goes blank when I go to write them down.
In my commie days I would sit for hours and write about how much I hated western society.
I've started to write in a journal though, and I like to blog online.

I'm certain my mum has hypergraphia. She writes poerty and short stories. She's really good at it too.

Oh, and I like to draw too. I used to draw all over my maths tests when I got stuck on a question, which was always.

I keep a mess of notepads/notebooks in my room with car information that I've written down from books, websites, shows, etc. and also a huge spreadsheet on the computer of all the specs of my dream cars. I don't write on the walls or on furniture, or definitely not on my hands, but I almost always keep a notepad with me.

I also love sportswriting, and may get a career as a sportswriter.

My great-uncle who my mom is certain was autistic (more on this later) had stacks and stacks of notebooks in his house. I think it is very strong in some HFA/Aspies.

For those of you interested in this topic, "The Midnight Disease" by Alice W. Flaherty is a pretty good book (and cheap, mine was only like $10 at overstock.com but shop around). I read it a few years ago, before being diagnosed, so I don't remember if it mentions ASDs. It DOES mention epileptics having a tendency towards hypergraphia (which is why I read it since I also have epilepsy).

Anyway, I write a lot, but not a lot to qualify for hypergraphia. My dysgraphia gets too much in the way.

I wish I had this sometimes, cause I HATE WRITING

That's why I got the book. I hate having to force myself to finish a paper or a story (I'm one of those writers who hates writing). I thought it would tell me how to induce hypergraphia but alas, it didn't.