• Skyline969@lemmy.ca
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    Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])

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      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.

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        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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        All day, every day. Sometimes I will just delete everything and just not reply at all. Which sucks when I actually want to make use of comments and engage in the communities more. So far all the folks on here and the other instances I am on tend to not turn the focus onto my excessive use of parenthesis, and stay on the topic.

        I am sure there have been some random one-offs. The only ones I can think of have been more about how I didn’t break things into paragraphs vs just one huge wall. Even then, it is obvious that they at least read most of it. And I try to take those the same as telling me I have something on my face vs not. Just depends on how they say it.

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