<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Ballastexistenz]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Mel Baggs]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/author/ameliabaggs/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[What historians don&#8217;t&nbsp;pathologize.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Another short one but at least I&#8217;m posting. It&#8217;s something I just remembered while thinking about history. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve written about hypergraphia before. It&#8217;s the medicalized term for compulsive writing (just one form of compulsion-level creativity thought to be linked to temporal lobe oddities, and it&#8217;s a way I&#8217;ve been described before). It doesn&#8217;t have to be any particular kind of writing though. I used to just write lists, or write the words of a book over and over. Many people described as hypergraphic write incredibly detailed journals going over every minute of the day. </p>
<p>I was telling someone about this years ago. Turns out she was a history major. Her response was &#8220;Oh historians <em>love</em> people like that!  That&#8217;s how they find out what people&#8217;s day to day life was like in the past.&#8221;  So that&#8217;s one group of people who don&#8217;t pathologize hypergraphia. </p>
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