Adhd meds turn you into a Furry confirmed (although, what you you already were one beforehand? Does it cancel out?)
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Tl;dr: ADHD meds made me a furry, a fast one, fast as heck.
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(if you can believe it)
My friends and I dropped ADHD meds at an outdoor concert. They were having fun and having a good time and I sat down in the grass and replied to some school emails and did a handful of tasks that I have been putting off.
It was the first time in my life that I wasn't unintentionally listening to everyone's conversations at the exact same time and solutioning their problems all at the same time.
I ended up going to Mexico and going into a reputable doctor and purchased ADHD meds. I later in life went to a doctor and got diagnosed.
Wait wait wait. Is the hearing all the conversations around you an ADHD thing? Are you serious? I just thought it was like, an ability.
Yes and no. It's not exclusive to ADHD.
The ADHD part of this is being unable or very bad at "tuning it out" so you can focus on something. Like, you recognise there's sound, but since it's not relevant to what you're focused on, you ignore it without thinking about the fact that you're ignoring it... That's what ADHD people are bad at.
It can be very helpful if you need to listen for specific sounds to survive. Like, if you were in the brush and you hear very specific crunching noises, the kind that you would hear if you were being stalked by a predator.... Someone with ADHD would be able to pick up on that more readily, while doing something else (like, idk, gathering), than someone who doesn't have ADHD.
IMO, a lot of ADHD traits provide advantages in specific scenarios, mainly related to crisis, conflict and survival, but those traits work against you for basically everything else.
My ADHD superpower is basically being situationally aware to the point at which it harms my ability to live. I almost always remember the most trivial details of places and situations that largely do not matter. I'll get called into a meeting for some hyper important project from my manager for client x, and that I should be working with person y at the client site to push forward. I will remember every detail of the plant on the managers desk, whether it was real or fake, was it in dirt or mulch or that foam stuff that they sometimes use for plants, was it recently watered (was the substance it was in, wet?), any oddly colored stripes in the stem/branches/leaves. How big was it, were there any issues with it, did it have any neighbors (other plants, maybe a fish?), even pictures nearby, etc...
Then I have to email my manager later to ask who y is, because I've forgotten the name.
This is my life.
So my Sherlock powers of observation are also ADHD?
Am I maladapted to modern society, or is modern society inhospitable to people with innate survival abilities?
Yes.
It's a curse
It puts my brain to 150% processing and I just wanna listen to one conversation and aaaaaa
Even when I can't listen to the dozens of voices due to them being nearly inaudible it still enables the part of my brain to try to decode them, so about 75% is used to try to listen to words that I don't even wanna listen to
This is why ANC is heaven
Oh man. Mine actually is able to listen and understand each conversation. My brain will not only listen but mentally join that conversation. Lord help me if a few people in earshot are having technical problems with their phones or computers. I will literally pull my phone out in the middle of dinner with a friend and start finding the solution for multiple people's problems while my friend is like WTF, you were just telling me about your day and abruptly stopped talking and went into your phone.
It's an ability if you're a prehistoric hunter or in a dense jungle with predators. We have the ability to listen to everything and be able to process sounds, smell and visual changes.
Having dinner with a date and it's less of an "ability" and more of "you're being an unattentive asshole" because your date is just another conversation in a sea of conversations.
I just thought it was like, an ability.
For me, it's more a dis-ability as it makes it hard to concentrate on the conversation that I'm in or task that I'm doing.
In a way, it is...
It's both, ADHD people just have a much, much harder time learning to filter it. But neurotypical people can learn to do it too sometimes. I envy the ability to turn it off
Yeah the 'H' in the acronym is what always threw me off. I guess "ADD" without the 'H' isn't a thing anymore? I'm pretty sure I have it, undiagnosed.
Was never a fan of uppers, and recently took some Adderall for the first time in like 20 years, and it was mind-blowing. I felt normal. I wasn't tweaking out, I was just able to manage my life like a normal person for a day.
Unfortunately, as someone who is on Suboxone for treatment of opioid addiction, the chances of getting a doctor to write me a legitimate RX are pretty much zero.
Meds that I tried didn't help me. Fuck me I guess 🙃
To be fair I have not tried any new meds in many years, so I'm sure there's new ones I haven't tried, but I couldn't afford the appointments or medications anyway...
A lot of it is better delivery mechanisms for dextro-amphetamines.
Ritalin made me feel miserable and paranoid
It was the opposite effect on me. Have you tried crescenta?
I tried equasym, which from what i understand is similar to concerta, but i didn't feel any positive difference and sometimes it made me irritable
I feel irritated during the come down. It's intense depending on the meds. The extended release pills helps with the intense come down.
I usually felt better after the come down, weirdly. It makes me think like my diagnosis was wrong or that maybe my issues lie elsewhere
Lol, are you recommending it because it's the opposite of what you were on?
Ritalin has been working well for me. But I have heard good things about concerta.
I wish tbh, been diagnosed for 3 years and still haven't found meds that work. I suppose that's inevitably part of it, but it sucks to just not be able to do things because my brain doesn't want to give me good chemicals.
WHAT?!
I need the ADHD meds now. GIMME!!!!! I WANNA BE DOG!!!
But seriously: I saw someone posting videos of their handwriting and organization and shit before and after Adderall and it was like seeing someone in real life taking the drug from Limitless. I need to try that shit because it might actually help.
Meds don't do shit for me, only clenching my jaw so hard that my teeth shift from their normal position and making me extremely paranoid.
Yupp, Amphetamines at work! FDA approved for 6 year olds!
I had to try different meds to get it right. Concerta made me paranoid as hell. Medikinet made me cry three times a day. Some how Ritalin on the lowest dose just hits the sweet spot.
Medication gives me a smaller dog, but makes me feel very tired.
if you don’t mind my asking, which meds? i had a friend on a stimulant who described a similar experience to yours, so she switched to a non-stimulant (stratterra) and vastly preferred the effects.
deffo not trying to tell you how to live your life btw! i’ve just run into a lot of folks who for some reason or another have only ever tried like, one or two meds and just figured that’s as good as it gets. our brains can be so whacky different, sometimes it feels like a wonder that any one drug has similar effects on anybody, especially when adhd is in the mix lol
Vyvanse. Strattera makes me feel sick (like, as if I have a cold) and extremely pissed off 24/7. Does absolutely nothing for the ADHD.
have you tried adderall? right now i’m on 15mg extended release.
tbh i took vyvanse recreationally as a teenager and i had an experience much closer to the one depicted in this meme, whereas right now on adderall i’m having something closer to what you described. i’ve been meaning to talk to my doctor about it but i keep putting it off lmao
Adderall works better for a while, then its effectiveness tapers over time. I think I wanna switch back to Adderall though, since I don't take my medication very often anymore anyways
they generally like to prescribe a single dose of extended release per day, but if you think it might be a better option DO talk to your doctor about getting a split dosage of regular ass adderall twice daily. it’s kinda uncommon but i’ve heard a lot of good things!
that might honestly be the solution to my issues as well, i’m torn between that and vyvanse. going in on the 21st tho so i’m gonna be trying one of em! lmao
I do have an ADHD diagnosis but the last time they tried to put me on meds I was a nervous wreck and always crying, but really i'm not sure if that was the meds or other problems i was having at that time
Wow brilliant, this is one of the best explanation for ADHD ever
Ya, I had a bad reaction to Atoxetmine. Concerta was the same. So each meds acts differently.
I went crazy paranoid on Concerta
I'm on Ritalin now. The downside is that it doesn't last very long and I have to constantly eat it. But better than reduced sexual drive.
There's a modified version that lasts for hours.
I heard. I think it's called Ritalin slow release or something like that. But my insurance doesn't cover that.
I forget that it's quite easy living in the EU. I think a months worth of Ritalin costs me about 6 euros.