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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

ADHD person here. Been making an effort lately to use less parenthesis. A thing I quickly found is that many of them can be replaced with a comma just fine. Or, just like, taking the extra two seconds to turn one run-on sentence into two. (But then again turning my comments into puzzles is fun).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's when someone just quotes one sentence out of context and I am heartbroken.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Discovered the same thing about a year ago, it works amazingly well !

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'll love German speakers then. In my experience they love bonus content thoughs as well as math equations in their thoughts like "=" for reframing a thought or "=>" for concluding a thought.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not a German but I'm dutch so close I guess, and I pretty regularly use =/= and == in text. I picked up == from IT class, not sure about =/=

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hot damn (I'm so [so] "guilty" of this); seriously – it's no even (or odd) funny!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

me and all my beautiful footnotes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I feel this so hard

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Since one email with {[()]} in it,I really force myself to cut back on that... Now it takes me three times as long to type a bloody answer to anything ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I send my work emails to my boss to proof read cause I can’t be trusted to be succinct and relevant (not that they force me to, I just overthink).

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

…i apologise for the long letter; i didn’t have time to write a shorter one…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m going to start using that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Me too, next year.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol, I did that too!

But people bitched abut it & about me being weird so now I just ((())) if it's really needed (or if my brainhole just can't/refuses to rephrase the text ... or I ran out of fucks).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I started using double dashes -- like these right here -- because then it feels more like an intentional pause with some neat stylistic touch.

Mostly, I just write like I talk.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's basically just em dashes, which these days will get you accused of being an LLM.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only if you use a — instead of --, if they know what they’re talking about anyway.

My phone autocorrects them to — so that’s fun, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's the point where I go back and edit the first parenthesized block to be separated by a comma, semicolon, or dash, make it a separate sentence, or convert the inner parenthesis to a footnote.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

DAE start their parenthetical thought and end up writing full and multiple sentences inside it before returning to the original point?

I try to catch myself and just make a new paragraph when that happens but I'm not always successful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Guilty, but now I'm considering switching to footnotes¹. They let you express a related thought without disrupting the flow².

¹I blame House of Leaves. Lotta footnotes in there, and they can go a long way before they really get out of hand.

² Sure there are cons, like the fact that the reader has to go to the bottom for context, but there's also no real length limit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ooh, I like this. I'm in!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ooooh! I like how you think!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

yes, but as far as I'm aware I don't necessarily have ADHD? I do have autism, and there's the suspicion I have ADHD, but I don't have a paradoxical reaction to caffeine and also I've not been tested so who the fuck knows anything. My psychiatrist certainly doesn't think testing is necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Primary thought; secondary (interjectory thought [aside]) thought, supporting thought that wouldn’t work as an independent sentence, digression: the actual point.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Don't forget [Option A | Option B].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel like a semicolon or colon would be better here than parentheses

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find that semicolon connotes "Concept B follows from, but is distinct from, Concept A", while parens connote "Concept B follows from, and is intertwined with, Concept A".

Because all thoughts are intertwined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find parenthesis are best when concept B is worth noting, but tangential to concept A, especially when the next few points are going to be back on the same track that A was on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Why not all of the above?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Parentheses are the push() and pop() of my thought stack.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Learning push/pop in the context of a stack provided me with a lifelong justification for being what others call "flighty". This is super evident while doing chores and I jump from washing dishes to wiping counters to washing floors to putting laundry in the washer. To someone at that point it looks like I've started a bunch of things that I didn't finish.

In fact, I paused on the dishes so I could clear a spot on the counter for them, realized I swept a bunch of crumbs on the floor that I needed to clean up, but before I could finish the floor I had to do something with that dirty pile of laundry that was in the way. Keep watching and you'd see me "pop" each of those tasks back off the stack in turn, eventually getting back to the dishes where I started.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is it fair to say people with ADHD add thoughts onto a stack while the rest of the population adds thoughts to a queue?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The thoughts are added to the ether and the ones that happen to make contact with the previous node become the next link.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I suspect it's non-ADHD is linear, while ADHD is multi-dimensional mesh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

More like the thoughts are added automatically to the stack with little to no control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You pop one off the stack but in doing so it opens up and a dozen springy toy snake thoughts burst out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. So you pop one off the stack, but in processing that item, you push 10 more things on the stack. And the same happens when you pop one of those 10 items off the stack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stacks on stacks on stacks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Storing hobbies on racks on racks on racks.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wait, that's an ADHD thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

—me, every time I read a post in this community

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

It isn't unique to ADHD, but it is very common with ADHD. Pretty much everything that defines ADHD is something everyone does but dialed up to the point that it is a disorder.

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