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[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week 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.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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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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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week 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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[–] moseschrute@piefed.social 9 points 1 week 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?

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 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).

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Half the time I realize the parenthesis works better as a separate sentence, preceding the original sentence, because I'd gone "Thought (context)." instead of "Context; thought."

But then I start writing "thought (context1; small tangent; context2 (sub-context)). Follow-up thought (..." and it's a damn Chinese puzzle trying to put back flat and in the right-order.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I am heartbroken."

Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

are you heartbroken?

Yeah, they just said they were!

Scientist: Scientific findings are meaningless when taken out of context.

Journalist: Scientist says scientific findings are meaningless!

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I am always getting to the end of comments or really anything I write to someone (especially if more than a few sentences). Then get frustrated to see that I just ended up inserting basically a paragraph's worth of shit inside one sentence. I have like a really hard time making simple and condensed information (or other times the complete opposite and say waaaay too little).

It is like a really strong need to try an provide all the information that could lead to being taken the wrong way. Or to convey that I considered obvious arguments to save people from bringing them up needlessly. And I think that using parenthesis looks less "bad" than the super long run-on sentences. I am the worst person in my friend-groups if someone wants a TL;DR of things fast.

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[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week 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 ...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m going to start using that!

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[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you use too many parentheses you might have a lisp.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we should normalise nested parentheses

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 week ago

Adding and removing parenthetical clauses from my email until they all suddenly resolve, collapsing to nothing and I am left with an empty email. "Brilliant!" I think, and close Outlook, having solved my own problem.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wait, that's an ADHD thing?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week 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.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week 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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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parenthesis is singular, parentheses is plural. One parenthesis, two parentheses. Like crisis/crises, axis/axes.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

but, parentheses always comes in pairs.

if not someone needs to be executed

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out ;)

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

If I'd let my brain do its thing we'd be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why em dash when en dash is so accessible?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Em dash is — I believe — the correct one for interjections / parentheses replacement. On mobile it's easily accessible, on my desktop I get it with Alt + - but I had to set it up myself.

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week 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.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You know i like to think I have it under control. No outbursts control over irritants etc and I think in doing pretty good. Then someone posts some shit like this and I'm all "get out of my head" . Nice to know I'm not the only one giving the brackets a work out.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My mrs wires entirely in parentheses - it’s subclauses all the way down. She’s not ADHD though, likely OCD.

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Adakar47@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Why not all of the above?

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])

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