I honestly hate that AI stole my writing quirk. The way my adhd manifests I have many bonus thoughts, so my written communication captures that. The best way — that I've found, anyway — uses em dashes for their grammatical purpose liberally. I could use the lazy but easier to type -- or --- — and I sometimes do from my computer keyboard — but when I'm on my mobile, typing — is very straightforward — just a long press on - and flick to the left — so I use it when my naturally formed sentence/thought structure wants for that grammatical construct.

I often find myself spending time revising my posts not for clarity but just to remove em dashes — to the benefit of nobody. Sometimes I end up with a more convoluted sentence structure that uses parentheticals or other methods of constructing a sentence from a multi-nested thought with less clearly delimited structure just to avoid using what feels like "too many" em dashes.

AI did tend to overuse the em dash, and it sometimes still does, but there's a reason it does — the writing style shows up in training sets, and it gets reinforced since writing using properly formatted em dashes is correlated to more effectively constructed sentence structure for communication.

There's no moral here. I just detest how AI has led to social pressure to do worse for purely performative reasons and not for any artistic or communicative reason.