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rustingbridges:

profound-yet-trivial:

adhd-infodump:

I don’t have ADHD (it’s okay, I have bipolar instead) and I don’t think this is an ADHD-only thing (as evidenced by this sentence, and no, I’m not forcing it here).

It’s simply that parentheses fit the logical structure of some thoughts, in the order that you would think or read them.

In my first sentence, the first parentheses could be functionally replaced by em dashes\u2014which would serve the same purpose but with a more pretentious cast\u2014but the thought in the final parentheses couldn’t be expressed via any other syntactic construction in a comparably straightforward fashion.

when I use parentheses it\u2019s often in a place where really what I would like is footnotes.

I used to try to do footnotes on tumblr but it was a pain and it was one of those things that definitely looked different on mobile vs desktop

sometimes I throw the footnotes in the tags but this is also kind of awkward

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Yooo, guess who knew the ( [ { } ] ) precedence of nested brackets by third grade?

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