I always wish it was easy to “hyperlink” parts of my sentence. So that they could hover over it and see my explanation for that part. But alas, that would be too much work.
No. A lot of “ADHD thing” tweets/memes are just quirks common across a wide spectrum of people. That they happen to also be common in those with ADHD is just coincidental.
For parentheses specifically, it’s just a personal writing habit, and there are other ways to communicate “a thought followed by a bonus thought” without having to use them — hell, parenthetical clauses themselves don’t have to use them. Parentheses in particular are probably a result of some people being taught that “a sentence is a complete thought”, which is a nice description for someone just learning grammar, but also not actually true.
Yea thought so, it feels a bit like horoscopes in newspaper sometimes. I only know two with adhd and they are both very extreme cases but polar opposite to each other so i don’t have anything to base these “facts” on.
Yea i was taught that parentheses is just wrapping extra information that you won’t read out loud and can be skipped. It was meant to be there to give more context for those that is not as well versed in the subject or helpful to point out things that may not be as obvious for the reader. For example “VIP(very important person)” or “a lot of things here are brown (the tables, chairs and floor)”.
But i never even thought about how parentheses should be used until now. My teachers never really said anything about them.
I just want to say that a lot of the surface level ADHD actions are common to humans who are alive. The reason for those things various dramatically and the frequency of occurrence is definitely an ADHD thing, but simply getting distracted while focusing on something is not exclusive to ADHD, but being unable to focus because of distractions (sometimes distractions that are completely mental and exclusive to your brain) is an ADHD thing.
It’s like, you’re probably not going to be able to do your tax return next to an active jackhammer regardless of who you are, but when you’re doing your taxes in a quiet room and you’re distracted by the HVAC turning on and making a humming noise, that’s probably ADHD.
Edit to add: I’m listening to someone in another room browse tiktok, I’m listening to the furnace hum and I can hear my stomach doing its digestion thing, yet I still maintained focus on this somehow. Medication works!
I do that all the time- although I often prefer hyphenated clauses (because they look classier)- but I also use a lot of parenthetical phrases (I don’t think I have ADHD, but my daughter does).
Its entirely possible for a ND to live with no notable issues or disadvantages which negates the need for a label or diagnosis but if your daughter does have one the chance is high for their to be neurodivergent genes all around you in your family gene-pool.
Oh definitely. There is also other neurodivergence in the family, notably my father and brother, so I am not surprised about it or anything. I don’t think I fit the diagnosis, although I definitely have some symptoms. I am probably neurodivergent myself, but none of the evaluation I was given as a child showed I actually tipped the scales. Of course, that was the 80s and I’m sure they have better diagnostics now.
It’s not that they live with no notable issues or disadvantages, it’s that they have made the coping mechanisms to deal with them. And medicating can disrupt those.
I hate having long sections between hyphens because they have no indication whether they are the opening ot closing ones — they also don’t allow nesting – or do they? – — which is done well by parentheses.
I’ve started re-writing nearly all of the emails I send with a rule of like, no more than one set of parenthesis. Somewhat funny because I do some programming and I started thinking to myself “if I’m nesting parens I should probably just re-write this function sentence.”
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