I can’t be sure, but I think I have hypergraphia. If I do have it, I’m sure I got it from Evil Spock.My doctor friends tell me hypergraphia isn’t a disorder but is associated with mania or epilepsy or something. They also tell me I don’t actually have hypergraphia, but who asked them? It’s my brain, and the limbic part of it is agitated. All of those clustered cells are responsible for emotion, instinct and inspiration, the regulatory trio for the human need to communicate. My temporal lobes feel a bit swollen even as I type.
The doctor friends keep trying to tell me that hypergraphia is triggered by changes in brainwave activity. One of them, Bob, points out that that implies a prerequisite of having brainwave activity. Ha, ha, Bob. Did you go to doctor school to get that sense of humor? Lots of famous people have had hypergraphia, Bob, like Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe, Isaac Asimov, and Fedor Dostoevsky. Did your teachers ever tell you the funny story of Virginia Ridley?
Virginia was a Georgian (the state, not the country) who suffered from agoraphobia and epilepsy. Her husband, Alvin, was accused of locking Virginia in her home for three decades before eventually killing her. Hypergraphia to the rescue. Alvin was vindicated when authorities finally bothered to read the 10,000-plus pages of Virginia’s journal, which answered every question the fine Ringgoldian townsfolk had been gossiping about during the 1999 trial.
God, would someone please turn those sirens off? We’re in a state of emergency. I get it. Sheesh.
Transmission ended . . .
2 are elated to see Evil Spock back!:
IS THERE A WAY TO PURCHASE HYPERGRAPHIA? IT SOUNDS LIKE AN ADDICTION TO CREATING GRAPHS, PIE CHARTS AND FLOW CHARTS. I'LL BET IT WOULD REALLY COME IN HANDY IN THE CORPORATE WORLD...
You can't purchase it, per se, but you can license hypergraphia for about $650 a year. For educators, it's $850.
There is an open source version you can get for free, but the interface keeps changing every week.
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