Now it’s either full sentences, or nothing again.
5th grade teacher: Watch this short documentary on MLK and take notes.
Me: takes notes
Teacher: Now write an essay using your notes.
Me looking at my notes:
Things never improved.
Is… this… a… bitcoin recovery pass… wtf?
I use acronyms to similar effect.
For example, when writing a shopping list.
And then I’m in the supermarket wondering what the fuck KR, IC and SS are?
Today while entering my bathroom I was repeating the word toothpaste to not forget what I came for lol
Just don’t let your brain trick you with the old switcheroo. I would be tickled by the thought that tooth paste sounds like fool’s haste and before I know it I’m repeating that. Until I stop suddenly, scratching my head and wondering what I was trying to achieve in the first place.
Only tangentially related, but when I was a kid I’d write stream-of-consciousness type stuff in a “code” consisting of the first letter of every word. Whenever I run across one of my old notebooks, I spend some time trying to decipher it, generally without much luck. Sometimes it’ll spark a bit of remembrance, like dipping madeleines in tea.