@nikodemus well, I have this as well and never was diagnosed (but nobody went around diagnosing kids for that where I lived)

@nikodemus I prefer M-dashes and semicolons; gotta spice up those independent clauses and keep the audience onboard with your complex sentence structure— especially if you think of something loosely related after you’ve formed the core thought.

@nikodemus It is fairly universal (at least I think so).

@nikodemus I've been doing this forever. Especially in technical emails at work

@nikodemus @cadey 100% universal. I love this (I really do)

@nikodemus I’m in this post (and don’t like it 😆).

@nikodemus pretty sure it's very very adhd. 😅

@nikodemus
@iana
yes (but it bothers me how that could be written with a comma (much like this) sentence)

@nikodemus I thought it was universal (though I might be a bit neurospicy so who knows)

@nikodemus I literally just did this several times in an email to my boss (but I have diagnosed ADHD, so that doesn't really answer your question).

@nikodemus yes (but I have autism)

@nikodemus I was told frequently (pretty much every paper I wrote) in school that I use too many parentheses in my writing (obviously it didn't change anything because I still do it all the time (and by all the time I mean like every other sentence at least))

@nikodemus it is (Specifically because we don't want people to misunderstand us)

@nikodemus erm, I think it might be? I don’t have ADHD but I overuse parentheses wildly for asides.

@nikodemus
I sometimes start a parentesis and never end it (because it contains a lot of information that i consider important and then my train of thought keeps going, eventually shifting to another topic and then the whole purpose of the parenthesis is gone because it has turned into the main argument.

@nikodemus yeah (yeah)

@nikodemus
Side comment: Do get antsy when you realize a closing parenthesis is not coming?

@nikodemus @iana does everyone not do this?!

@nikodemus I use parenthesis constantly, especially during longer posts (Makes clarification or extra thoughts easier to convey)

@nikodemus
I am replying to your post (and I suspect everything I say is probably going to be considered to be inane, so I must write a justification that is longer than the actual content, though I am aware, and want you to be aware, that the justification is not the main point, so I will put that part in parentheses. However, these will eventually go on for long enough as I add additional context that I forget that I was even making a parenthetical statement and so will forget to close them.

@nikodemus Gave a like to every post in this thread that had at least an opening parenthesis (and I don't regret it).

@nikodemus oh noooo

@nikodemus omg (it's me) 🫠

@nikodemus Something like that. I usually just keep sending messages with follow up thoughts or writing threads that could easily have been single posts

@nikodemus well... I don't have adhd but I do it from time to time (if it's in an informal/joking setting)

@nikodemus I feel called out. (I also have ADHD)

@nikodemus yes (no)

@nikodemus It's not universal (it would seem like it would be)?

@nikodemus Kinda wondering if I should get tested now.

@nikodemus Just make sure you close every parenthesis you open (otherwise people will become frustrated (because we're programmers.).).

@nikodemus uh oh (this reminds me of something I do)

@nikodemus I think it's universal ? I do it all the time on discord discussions.

@nikodemus holy moly this is a thing? I always thought it was just my particular writing style, and never really thought about how others *don't* shove asides into practically every sentence, heh.

@nikodemus well, I’m diagnosed as adhd and I do it all the time.

@nikodemus it is

@nikodemus I'm afraid so (I blame my early encounter with lisp (in the form of the DOS Brief text editor script language (and later on Emacs (😄))))

@nikodemus definitely!!

@nikodemus didn’t realize it required adhd (figured everyone did it)

@nikodemus Yes (me, too)

@nikodemus
I like to use the em-dash—which in many cases serves the same purpose as parentheses—and I don't understand why it isn't used more often.

@nikodemus yup, definitely it is

@nikodemus don’t forget—and honestly, who could—the em-dash; or the ever-useful semicolon (I make liberal use of them all!)

@nikodemus just one level?

@nikodemus I definitely do this! (although not all the time(But a lot of the time))

@nikodemus I have to sometimes fight the urge to nest my parentheticals. By sometimes I mean often. Very often.

@nikodemus I thought it was universal for a while (but I suspect it's not)

@nikodemus LMAO I do this all the time (even in academic writing)

@nikodemus
Absolutely yes. If the platform has markdown or other ruch text support I also use italics to convey secondary thoughts

@nikodemus
Somewhat; some of us prefer semicolons.

@nikodemus (I'll also often use parens around entire messages in a discussion when I don't want to change the main topic (but also I really want to share the bonus content))

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