I remember being so sad as a child that no one would listen to my stories; I was so immensely interested in what I was talking about and to see people just start gazing off really hurt.

Either I do this, or jump straight into the middle of a story with zero context

Me doing some worldbuilding (no it's not for a game or novel, it just happens)

My wife showed me this, and in the process of explaining it, she did this. It was quite fun, kind of like bingo

Oh God yeah, I've done this a lot.With meds and practice I've gotten a lot better about being concise, but I'll still sometimes end up rambling on for a good long time.

…sorry

I feel the "apologize" at the end so much 😂 but yes that's mostly how I've always been doing it I don't remember exactly since when but at least since I can remember which is probably since I was 12 or something my memory is really bad (I can't remember what happened yesterday by now).

I do know that that was pretty much how I formed an argument recently on here as well I think but it was mostly coherent as far as I know I do still always apologize at the end of texts or speech if I know I've been talking too long which I do like to do.
What helps is putting in some paragraphs and new lines though in terms of readability which I always try to do when it makes sense but I'm not always sure when to put paragraphs and when to put new lines but still better than to write a single block of 5000 words like an essay. It took me a while to learn that though in school I used to, for the longest time, write single blocks.

Anyways at this point in the text I'd usually already have forgotten what I had written at the beginning, I guess that's maybe the point where I should just stop because nobody's reading it to this point anyways.

Sorry for the text wall I hope it was at least as readable as possible!

This is me so much. I even have supervisors groaning when someone asks me a question at work because I can't stop talking for like 30 minutes and I cansee them edging away but I have to finish my current chain of thought or I won't remember and it'll bug me all night.

My boss has ADHD and every meeting with him is like this haha. He's a nice guy though so I don't mind

And then I found a 20 on the ground.

this one hits close to home

So, how many of you are doing an epilogue, too?

I brain fart mid story and heart goes brrt.

This is exactly why I can never be the DM in a DnD-type game. My players would just slowly drift off before I finished the exposition.

Don't forget: context context context

First should be [starts the story in the middle without context] - [realizes people don’t understand what you’re talking about]- ….

Some say, they're still telling their story to this day.

I call this non-linear story telling.