For the visually impaired it is a Twitter screenshot from Dani Donovan, ADHD Comics, @danidonovan
and reads,
the ADHD urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)
I don’t know if I have ADHD, but I struggle with this as well! Sometimes I’ll write a message/email and there’s a paren after every other sentence.
Lately I’ve been making an effort to substitute with a semicolon or bridge the thoughts with a dash:
“I’m thinking this - but I also think this.”
Unsure if that’s a correct usage of punctuation, but I feel like it helps the sentence feel more focused and an expansion of the thought, rather than a random segue (especially with work)
Edit: realized that I had broken my own rule seconds after posting
It’s not my fault I don’t think linearly.
Reminds me how in outer wilds, the alien species writes in spirals, and replies or additional thoughts are added as branches to the spiral. It was actually inspired by the way the lead writer took notes.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
trying to fight that urge in academic writing every day
One word: footnotes
Are they still called footnotes if they take half the page? (I prefer parentheses though)
Yeah, it’s short for “a foot of notes” and the term was coined when the standard page length was 24 inches1.
Footnote
1This isn’t true.
Did Terry Pratchett have adhd?
Oh shit, I do that for every other sentence D:
I look forward to your next sentence
