the odds of me losing focus is greatly reduced and getting stuck being indecisive over minor things is greatly reduced. It doesn’t turn me into Superman, it turns me into Clark Kent. Comparing ADHD medication to calm down with addiction to stimulants making you feel like Superman is the dumbest shit I’ve read this month.
It was hyperbole but my point stands. I feel "normal" on meth. In your words yes I feel like Clarke Kent. As in you suddenly feel how you think you're always meant to feel.
My point is the effects ADHD people describe when 'finding a med that works' are exactly the same as those of a normal person doing stims. There's literally no difference except heart rate.
I get the impression you've no idea what meth is like - let me explain: It's exactly like when you take ADHD meds. That alive/awake/suddenly I'm here. That's it. OK It's obviously got major side effects when taken to excess (e.g. 4 day wanking binges or obsessive sorting/cleaning). But I'd argue those are signs of OVERDOSE not meths inherent effects. Which doctors agree with because guess what!? Methamphetamine is prescribed to treat ADHD!!! Along with methylphenidate and guess what I used to abuse? Ethylphenidate - almost exactly the same effects.
So either I've been self-medicating away an undiagnosed ADHD disorder or ADHD isn't a thing and people are simply taking performance enhancing legal drugs and explaining it away as medicine. Cos I'm tlelign you as an addict they are designed to make you feel fucking fantastic. It's literally in the medical literature. It's not a fucking surprise you feel great on ADHD meds - EVERYONE would and does!
OK look at it form a different angle: Lots of people are terrible at socialising. A new diagnosis of "Asocialphobic Personality Disorder". Doctors have discovered an excellent new treatment for it called Ethylene Hydrate which you take 44ml of every 2hrs. It cures the new disorder Asocialphobic Personality Disorder!!! WHAT HO!!! Miracle - we've fixed the worlds problems.
Except Asocialphobic Personality Disorder doesn't exist and Ethylene Hydrate is just another name for alcohol.
Alcohol makes you more sociable. But sprucing it up in scientific language sure makes it sound like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
I don't have a problem with ADHD sufferers or people taking meds. I do have a problem with the hypocracy. People used to medicate on alcohol for anxiety. Same with opium for pain, cocaine for motivation and many more. Native tribes used to chew coca leaves to travel long distances. Opium was used for operations.
Kratom was used heavily by SE Asians to manage long work days...remember this one!
When the world is screaming at you: PERFORM, CONSUME, PERFORM, WORK, CONSUME, PERFORM, CONSUME, WORK, WORK, WORK.
You're being left behind, life feels kinda shit - cos life IS shit!! So what do you do?
You ask: What could be wrong with me? How do I fix myself?
Doctors invent a whole new diagnosis and start prescribing uppers. What do they do? They make you PERFORM and WORK and CONSUME! Suddenly you fit into the life around you. It's not you who was broken - the WORLD is broken. You felt shit precisely because life is SHIT! Have you heard that things like depression, ADHD, Autism and other mental health issues are more common in the developed world than in the developing?
Ever wonder why?
It's not because the doctors are shit. It's because they don't need diagnoses to explain their situation.
Drugging yourself with ADHD meds and antidepressants has become the new religion. In the past we could blame shit on god. We could find comfort in religion. When we see problems now we turn to doctors and science.
Nothing changed - life is shit. It's miserable and painful. ADHD meds didn't fix you. They mask the reality of life.
There's no difference between your med use and my meth use except dosage and legality.
I've written too much on ADHD to be bothered with Autism so I may/not answer that later. This will do for now.