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.

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

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