• gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    If I’d let my brain do its thing we’d be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.

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

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      My issue is that I really dislike nested brackets in text. They are fine in math but only with appropriate \left, \right, \bigl, \bigr, …

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    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.

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    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).

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      Texts can still be long-winded without parentheses. The trick is to consider which information the other person needs in this moment. It’s definitely a skill worth developing.

      That said, sometimes I still info dump just because I love it. And there are people who appreciate me for it, too.

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      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.

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

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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.

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    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 …

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

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

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    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.