Jay Kersting's Blog

MY problems with blogging

Blogging is NOT for everyone.  Some have told me to quit, but these are those anonymous haters who are too cowardly to sign a real name behind their comments.

That is the problem with the internet, sometimes.

My problem with blogging is similar to what Rush Limbaugh said about his process of writing.  My thoughts move a hell of a lot faster than I can write or type.  I can get six or seven ideas out by speaking them before I can get just one of them by typing.

That is probably why I had so much trouble during the first fifteen or sixteen years of my life in our education system.

I am not writing this to imply that I am smarter than you or anyone else.  I might be, but I may also be a drooling idiot by comparison.

I was thinking about my sons before I wrote this.  Alex seems to be a lot like me, in that he is often very quick with his wit and reactions.  Ben, on the other hand, is more delayed and deliberate.  That is not to say that Ben is not as smart, but his language delays are part of an overall communications delay that he has.  And that is typical of those with various forms of autism.

Of the two boys, Alex could, like me, starting writing something and possibly skip a point that he wanted to make and would have to go back to re-write and edit.  For both of us, thank goodness for computers.  With Ben, he would probably feel more comfortable with pen and paper to formulate his thoughts to make sure that he is very clear in his message before sitting down to put it in the computer.  And then he might be more repetitive in his points, rather than skipping things over.

I don’t think that I am smarter than either one of them, nor they smarter than me, necessarily…though I hope they are.

Often times when I DON’T make a blog entry for a day or so, it is because I have SO much that I want to say, that I cannot clear things up enough in my own mind to say them. 

That is why radio was a great medium for me to work in.  And the blog that I used, wrote, back then was more of an outline for my show that day.  Today, without a show, it is more free form.  I do what I want, when I want and on what I want to talk about.

So, what was my point here?  Oh, yeah…that is why I sometimes have trouble with my blogs.  And why I jump around.  I do have ADHD…that was diagnosed in 2001.

Sure is pretty outside. 

I wonder if it is warm enough for golf.  I think I have a box of unopened golf balls.

Can’t wait for baseball season.

I wonder what we will have for lunch at the Jefferson City Young Professionals meeting today.

Bear with me on my writing.  I do get around to making a point….sometimes several of them….just not always following a straight line from point A to point B and continuing to points C, D, and E.

But, I do get there.  Usually.