Meme: Screenshot of microblog post by @alanjack replying to @fotchi.
Caption: I still don't know why part of autistic/adhd diagnosis isn't putting you in a room with someone already diagnosed and seeing how quickly you bond.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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similarily if you pop 200mg of caffeine and fall asleep that might be a slight indication that you have adhd
Just sounds like caffeine addiction. I used to be able to drinks pot of coffee and then go to sleep. Then health issues caused me to give up all caffeine for several years and now if I have half a cup im wired for hours...
True, but I never drink coffee and could drink one right now and go sleep. The same when I was prescribed methylphenidate, straight to sleep. A non ADHD brain would be going 100mph.
Knowing that, this might be the best evidence that I am not ADHD I've heard, lol.
AuDHD is a big bag of symptoms that everyone pulls from a random amount of times, it's perfectly possible to pull enough symptoms to get diagnosed with ADHD yet simply not have gotten the one that makes caffeine work differently on you.
I wouldn’t take mine or others experiences as the norm, if you’re diagnosed I would discuss with your psychologist to be sure either way.
You are 100% right, and I know it... But I'm bad at taking care of health stuff, going to doctors, etc... I'll try, that's the best I can say. :)
i don't mean "being able to fall asleep", i mean that caffeine actively makes you tired, because that's how stimulants work for most ADHD people: rather than actually stimulate, it brings you back to base level and thus lets you be tired.
That's me in my normal rhythm of substance abuse with caffeine.
It might be that.
Then again, the funny thing about caffeine is that I can go without some for weeks as long as I'm not expected to work. Longest I've gone without was a 12 week, almost 3 month streak. The coffee I had in my kitchen went bad.
Being able to forget you are addicted to something is also an ADHD trait.
That sounds a lot like self medicating to me lmao
i geniunely don't understand why so many people immediately jump to it sounding like addiction, since when does caffeine addiction make it so taking caffeine makes you tired? Surely the symptom of caffeine addiction (or withdrawal, rather) is that not getting caffeine makes you tired?
It's because you mentioned the daily healthy dosis of an adult, which are multiple cups, and mention falling asleep. By failing to clarify that you mentioned that dosage of caffeine as the cause of the sleep, my assumption lead to the expectation that the sleep comes DESPITE the caffeine. Hence the substance abuse comment.
Also, one can abuse a substance without an addiction.
But yeah, sometimes I too fall asleep because of coffee, not despite coffee. It's mostly when I pick it back up after a week or so, but not always.