Posted by Shortelise on August 18, 2005, at 0:40:45
In reply to A strange thing...., posted by Meri-Tuuli on August 17, 2005, at 3:30:40
I doodle too.
I think it has to do with engaging the brain.
Y'know the thing about how the right brain is creative and the left brain is logical? If you are listening and drawing, you are using both sides of your brain, maybe, and perhaps in that way you absorb more info.
If you are interested in some real info, you could try googling "left right brain". There is also a book about learning to draw called "Drawing on the right side of the brain" that explains this.
I think it's interesting, not weird or strange. For some of us, it's "normal", whatever that means.
I find when I'm in a stressful situation,it can really help if I doodle. Like, when I talk with my mother on the telephone, and she is telling me the same story for the umpteenth time. If I draw while I am talking to her, and I don't mean a real, art-worthy drawing, I just mean doodle-draw, I can remain pleasant.
But I have no idea if it has anything to do with ADD. So far as I know, I don't have ADD.
ShortE
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