Alternate Blog Maintenance...

I spent quite a bit of time today working on one of my other blogs that has nothing to do with hive.

About 13 years ago I actually started a separate website and blog dedicated entirely to the exploration of living with ADHD, and living as an adult with ADHD... who was diagnosed late in life.

Unlike most online resources about the topic — at least at the time — my particular angle was that I was managing my situation without medication, because (after all) we live in a society that likes to medicalize and throw pharmaceuticals at virtually every situation.

For a lot of people in the ADHD "industry," my approach is somewhat controversial in that I'm saying that I don't have a debilitating condition, I have something that can be managed with a set of tools that help guide me through my daily activities. As far as I am concerned, this falls within the normal spectrum of human experience.

Anyway, visiting my old blog showed me that in spite of the fact that I rarely update or work on it, my posts are still getting quite a lot of page views... which seems to be an indicator that ADHD is definitely a topic that is in a lot of people's minds.

My ambition now is to try to find a good way to integrate Hive into that particular blog and perhaps write some ADHD related posts here on Hive that I can refer back to from that external blog.

I think part of being a writer (as a calling) means that you expose yourself to many venues rather than just stay loyal to a single venue. You spread your words around as best you can in the hope that at least one of your pieces ends up in a place where it will pick up a few extra readers.

And yes, I still think of the people who find my writing as "my readers," rather than just somebody who might give me an upvote that'll allow me to earn a reward of some kind.

Funny realization I bumped into today was the fact that putting a couple of posts on my old blog was a relatively easy process, and I found that I didn't worry at all about writing in a way, or on a topic, that I felt might be of interest to curators.

Now, most of my blogs here on Hive are mostly just conversational, and they don't set out to be learning experiences... but it was still interesting to me that the thought even crossed my mind.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great remainder of your week!

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