• KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      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.

    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      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.

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      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.