If I’d let my brain do its thing we’d be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.
Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)
You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.
I—like many people—also enjoy a good em dash.
Why em dash when en dash is so accessible?
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.
I can only find - on my phone keyboard
I get it when I long press -
- –—
Ah yes. Thanks.
No, that is morse code, try again.
ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).
This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])
Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])
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.
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.
Ooh, I like this. I’m in!
Ooooh! I like how you think!
I love the way house of leaves does footnotes, it’s basically an entire other book crammed into the same space. I still haven’t finished it because I keep getting lost…
I’m stuck at chapter IX, where flipping forward a bit I know I’m going to have to dedicate a serious reading session to, and I just cannot find the time.
Don’t forget [Option A | Option B].
Primary thought; secondary (interjectory thought [aside]) thought, supporting thought that wouldn’t work as an independent sentence, digression: the actual point.
Parentheses are the
push()andpop()of my thought stack.Is it fair to say people with ADHD add thoughts onto a stack while the rest of the population adds thoughts to a queue?
More like the thoughts are added automatically to the stack with little to no control.
You pop one off the stack but in doing so it opens up and a dozen springy toy snake thoughts burst out.
I suspect it’s non-ADHD is linear, while ADHD is multi-dimensional mesh.
Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))
My issue is that I really dislike nested brackets in text. They are fine in math but only with appropriate
\left,\right,\bigl,\bigr, …
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).
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.
Discovered the same thing about a year ago, it works amazingly well !
Of course, it often then becomes a comma splice; in that case, a period or semicolon works (but I use comma splices constantly anyway).
Puffed while reading your comment 😆
That’s when someone just quotes one sentence out of context and I am heartbroken.
Scientist: Scientific findings are meaningless when taken out of context.
Journalist: Scientist says scientific findings are meaningless!
Parenthesis is singular, parentheses is plural. One parenthesis, two parentheses. Like crisis/crises, axis/axes.
but, parentheses always comes in pairs.
if not someone needs to be executed
They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out ;)
The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural
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.
If you use too many parentheses you might have a lisp.
we should normalise nested parentheses
I use them a lot
It’s more common than you might think
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 …
…i apologise for the long letter; i didn’t have time to write a shorter one…
I’m going to start using that!
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).
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.
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.
