@nikodemus@kamu.social Yes it is (well, maybe not every sentence, but often). Sometimes I find it tiring how ADHD people are like "hey, I do this... must be ADHD!". Like, having follow-up thoughts? Everybody does, come on.

@nikodemus
Yes (in my case at least)

@nikodemus@kamu.social bonus points if you use them like nested (so you can do bonus content for your bonus content (which is really cool i think))

@nikodemus oh it's likely not (but really, parentheses allow to follow thought threads!)

@nikodemus Lol! I just showed that to my husband (who has ADHD) and he responded, “Yes! And…” followed by a stream of consciousness response on how people with ADHD just can’t turn off their race car brains. 🙃

@alexis

@nikodemus I feel very seen by this.

@nikodemus
Don't worry, you're not forced to use it if you don't like this. You can instead –and this sounds more intellectual– hypens instead of parenthesis –and it sounds more like a comment DLC rather than a thought.

@nikodemus
I have always been a parentheses within parentheses user (because I always feel like I need to clarify myself [but that's because I always got into trouble for apparently saying things I hadn't])
@ManonThuillier

@nikodemus and nested parentheses (because bonus thoughts come with bonus thoughts (and it never ends))

@nikodemus @kennergf It is as universal as OCD (like this open

#sorry

@nikodemus if you're not going three levels deep (at least) does that even count?

@nikodemus@kamu.social
An unabridged non-banal thought of mine is nearly indistinguishable from a lisp program

@nikodemus
Well, parentheses are fine for (some) side effects of (more complex) arguments, but¹ also can derail from the (main) argument. So I now² often use footnotes as an additional tool.³ But nested parentheses⁵ are fine too.

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¹this is not meant as an argument against using them
²on toots
³they not only allow to talk about separate aspects,⁴ they also can have their own (useful) parentheses.
⁴without breaking the main stream of thought
⁵we should use all the ❨❪⦅…⦆❫❩ ;-)

@nikodemus at the third layer of parenthesis, I usually stop and rephrase.

@nikodemus definitely true for me, except I mask it by overusing the—adjusts monocle—more “sophisticated” em dash.

@nikodemus yup

@nikodemus i have to fight this urge constantly! I think "sideways" meaning just about every thought that passes through my head spiders off to the left and right and brings in other thoughts. Even if sometimes the relation is something only in my head that wouldn't even make sense to anyone else.

@nikodemus interestingly how you use them depends on which field you interested in (Mathematics use multiple different ones for example [which are repeated when they run out {and are nested}])