You know you're going too far when you're using square brackets
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Wait, that's an ADHD thing?
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I feel like a semicolon or colon would be better here than parentheses
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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?
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]More like the thoughts are added automatically to the stack with little to no control.
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I feel like a semicolon or colon would be better here than parentheses
Why not all of the above?
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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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- I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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I feel like a semicolon or colon would be better here than parentheses
I find that semicolon connotes "Concept B follows from, but is distinct from, Concept A", while parens connote "Concept B follow from, and is intertwined with, Concept A".
Because all thoughts are intertwined.
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Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])
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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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.
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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.
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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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I find that semicolon connotes "Concept B follows from, but is distinct from, Concept A", while parens connote "Concept B follow from, and is intertwined with, Concept A".
Because all thoughts are intertwined.
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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Wait, that's an ADHD thing?
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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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.
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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.
That's basically just em dashes, which these days will get you accused of being an LLM.
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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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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.
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.
