i used to a lot of punctuation in middle school and early high school but i wouldnt say i use tons of commas at least not now a longterm substitute my junior year of high school explained all the grammar mistakes i had been making in my academic writing and how to write without those errors ive used the things he taught me on every paper ive written in the last 7 years sometimes it just takes one teacher who instead if simply telling you youre wrong takes the time to explain why its wrong and how to fix the errors it was never helpful for me as a kid when teachers just crossed out my superfluous commas because i never knew why it wasnt ok to use those commas   now i only use commas when i think its grammatically necessary when necessary includes oxford commas i hate it when people dont use oxford commas   i will say this im not sure its only an adhd thing ive proofread papers for friends and classmates and i sometimes have ended up crossing out 70 of their commas very few teachers teach how to use commas properly so a lot of people just end up using them to add a pause using commas like that is fine in some styles of poetry  holds up my copy of leaves of grass  holy commas batman no like seriously damn did whitman love commas or in casual writing like a reddit post or text message but its not appropriate in formal and academic writing ive learned to retrain my urges to use excessive commas and other punctuation like semicolons by rephrasing sentences where i feel the need to add a comma that isnt grammatically required i definitely use too many parentheses in casual writing though im realizing i used 5 sets of parentheses in this comment