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Comment by christalwang

2 years ago

Appreciate the feedback! I'm the author here (Christal)...unfortunately I definitely have ADHD!

Many of our members and team need the emojis for the visual relation but I definitely see your point. I will tone down the emojis and make the newsletter show up only at the end of the article. I'll also send this to a content editor for the confusing wordings, etc.! If there are any specific examples, don't hesitate to let me know.

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munk-a  2 years ago

As a person with ADHD myself I'm definitely on the same wavelength with finding emojis distracting but a friend of mine finds them extremely engaging. I suspect that the emoji appeal is more whether you were raised in a setting with them embedded into speech or appended at the end of speech. That's all to say that I don't think the OP was really accurate when they said emojis distracted people with ADHD - it distracts some of us - and engages other[1].

I would also personally appreciate a more neutral professional tone to writing but it's important to get a wider understanding of your audience before over tuning your presentation.

1. (And if you really want to engage me put hyphens everywhere - I do mean everywhere... but that's just me.)

  • christalwang  2 years ago

    Thanks for this perspective. I generally try to make it at least not distracting for most people, even though I know no 1 style will work for everyone.

    Yes, I hear your point on neutral tone as well, I'm a bit dramatic at times.

    I am the same with brackets. I use brackets so often-I type them then delete them (or at least reduce them to a "normal" amount) before hitting send, usually.

jamiepenney  2 years ago

Not sure if you've already done it, but I find the current state of it just fine - I wouldn't say it's overboard. Not to put extra work on you, but I wonder if it's worth creating a both a highly visual and low-noise version of your blog posts, considering ADHD tends to be co-morbid with stuff like ASD. Just a thought.

  • christalwang  2 years ago

    I made a few small changes to current, but not everything. And yes, I like that example of low-/high-noise. We're going to look into this in the coming weeks as we revamp our website.