アメリカ人、大学生の日本語です。

Garden in Northeastern Kansas, USA

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  • I’m probably not in the best shape to be an instance admin atm (mental health sabbatical from social media) but I wanted to post anyways to let it be known that I am interested in being one.

    In terms of neurodivergence, I’ve got ADHD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (and resultant Dyssemia.) I’m quite quirky, poorly mannered and unflinchingly radical. I’m an intersexed transgender non-person, furry, therian, in a lesbian marriage, stuck in the US on night shift. My NVLD severely hampers me in social situations in picking up nonverbal communications of all types, but luckily I have excellent verbal skills which fits perfectly for the text-only nature of Lemmy/Matrix. I’m internationally-minded, actively learning Japanese with an interest in learning Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi and probably Spanish and maybe dabble in some African languages. I’m inter"nation"ally minded, and love all cultures, pop and traditional. I have no background in tech but I really wanna keep learning at my slow pace. I’m ambivalent about GenAI but not hostile to it. So long as it’s done on your own hardware I have no ideological opposition to it, I just don’t like it cause it is frequently used in ways that displeases my ego.

    As for why I want to be an admin, I love y’all but the administration is very male cishet dominated at the moment and I’d love to bring some femme queerness to the table without sacrificing what makes db0 db0. We don’t need another Blahåj by any means.






























  • The best advice I have is to practice writing proper prose in a stream of consciousness style. Try to not edit other than with the delete button on what you just wrote. At least, that’s how I got to my kind of eloquence.

    You know how people advise you to read you writing aloud to hear how it sounds? Phrasing, readability, etc. I think the skill I have that helps the most is being able to write cogent and speakable language from a stream of consciousness. Try typing exactly how you speak, errors, accents and local expressions all included. It’s a skill, yeah. Turning your vocalized speech into internal speech into written language; you get to the point where you can produce written language that sounds like someone speaking naturally.

    As for flow and getting a point across? Studying prose helps. Simple things like “shorter sentences make a punchier phrase” or whatever help. Having a written style helps also. I’m not exactly sure if any of this helps, but thank you for complimenting my eloquence. I’ve never felt particularly eloquent - but I do speak my mind and only my mind. Popular opinion and groupthink are for unoriginal people. Sure, you can hold a popular opinion, but you’ve also got to have a reason for it that you can express.