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You ever wonder how many of the people you pass in the street every day are serenely off their tits on speed?
It’s probably more than you think.
And so many get the wrong idea. “Oh, I bet drinking coffee on that will make you hyper!”
No. It will make me comatose.
Everytime my son forgets to take his amphetamines in the morning I have to drive to his elementary school with a bottle of water and a can of pills like a fucking drug dealer...
And yes, all teachers know me personally now. And whenever they see me they grin: "Hey Momo, that's the third time this month, right?" - "Yeaah, tell me about it." - "I'm just glad you're doing this, I have him in PE later today, he has to take the second dosis at 10:30, right?" - "Yes. Have fun with the kids!" 😅
@Momo there are many things I forget.
“Take the drugs which temporarily end … THIS …” is not one of the.
So I'm gonna go Messy (friend group term for when the ADHD meds wear off) soon and I don't want to and it seems terribly unfair. NT people don't have to go Messy each night. This seems like discrimination. ELI5 why I should have to go Messy? It's bullshit is what it is.
There should be a law.
Can't explain why you have to go Messy, but I like the term.
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Dissociated today for the first time in my life at the age of 52.
That was profoundly weird.
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There are two types of medicated ADHDers: the “I keep forgetting to take these and don’t bother at weekends” type and the “You can take them from my cold dead hands” type.
I’m the latter
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My GP and my neurologist have a "battle" regarding my blood pressure. The neurologist is like "Uh, we have to keep MPH at a low dosis, your blood pressure is at 135/85!! Maybe you check in with your GP and tell her to alter your dosage?" and my GP is like "Whats her issue?? The blood pressure meds work fine, these are good values. I mean compared to the 220/120 you got without my meds, this is very good."
Somehow like being a kid that stands between two fighting parents... 😅
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Apple Health: “Avoid stimulants before measuring blood pressure as they can raise it!”
Me: 45 minutes after taking enough lisdexamphetamine to fuel an entire army:
Having ADHD be like, “yeah, I’m prescribed daily Speed by my doctor”
“Oh! What does that do for you?”
“Dunno. Nothing really”
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The world had gone mad. Utterly mad.
I mean, I’ve got the whole “is a bit insane” diagnosis and even then … this whole “venerate the dead Nazi” thing is beyond batshit even for me.
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Alpha methylphenethylamine
_A_lpha
_M_ethyl
_Ph_en
_Et_hyl
_Amine_
A_M_Ph_Et_Amine
Obvious when you realise!
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@marlies And look up its systemic name on Wikipedia having taken loads of it.
Anyway, very fond of it
I had long term amplification in efficacy after some years. Had to cut the dose. My dealer* said it was common.
* licensed nurse practitioner
I couldn't sleep more than 6 hours on the stuff. It made my heart race constantly, like 90bpm, for years. Just gave me a feeling of always being on edge. And mild overdose produces extremely painful urination, so there's that. Amphetamine is pretty awful as far as drugs go.
Can't comment on how much I looked like a vacuum cleaner salesman.
In today’s episode of “Insights From Alpha Methylphenethylamine”, comes the realisation of how two ADHDers communicating, especially if they like each other, will dance around the usually unspoken elephant in the room, RSD, in a way that usually never specifically acknowledges it.
If they don’t like each other, it may get weaponised. This is the ADHD equivalent of “mean girls” behaviour.
This is not a subpost.
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ADHD brains really are built differently – we've just been blinded by the noise
A new study significantly strengthens the case that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder brains are structurally unique, thanks to a new scanning technique known as traveling-subject method. It isn't down to new technology – but better use of it.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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Humans are nonergodic, hence diagnose the person!
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Only in hindsight! I've had several friends who, after I've heard that they've been diagnosed, I've gone "oooohh; yeah, that tracks."
So insofar as there are vibes, they're usually subtle enough that they're not usually a "tell" by themselves.
You ever have that experience where somebody tells you something about themselves that you didn't know, and suddenly about 5% of the conversations you've ever had with them get re-contextualised and feel more... authentic? It's like that.
At least from my (neurotypical, probably?) perspective.
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Bear accused of shitting in woods
Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
The agency said the source of the interference had been traced to Russian territory, and also affected shipping. Other European nations have accused Russia of being behind the jamming, which Moscow denies.Sweden says Russia behind surge in GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
Interferences to satellite navigational systems occur almost daily, aviation officials say.Aoife Walsh (BBC News)
Might have mistimed the ADHD meds booster a bit, lads.
Oops
Had to impose screen time limits on bluesky. Doom scrolling it was literally making me suicidal.
My feed here is nothing like that
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Scottish Government Response to Consultation Analysis: ending conversion practices in Scotland
A Scottish Government response to the consultation analysis on ending conversion practices Scotland. This document responds to some of the issues raised in responses to the consultation and what the Scottish Government is doing now.The Scottish Government
You know how neurotypical people talk about how they make and hold eye contact?
It’s a lie. They do no such thing. I can do it on ADHD meds and if you don’t look away it really freaks them out.
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I’m on a tiny instance and don’t always see all comments so maybe this has been answered already.
IIRC, it’s not so much about •staring• into someone else’s eyes, but about the patterns with which NT and ND people scan faces. What parts we look at and when, in which order, and how often etc. That’s usually intuitive, and those patterns differ.
So when I talk to some NT person, they feel I’m kind of strange, or even dishonest. They may not even realise why they feel it, or they may think I’m avoiding to look at them the way they instinctively expect.
And when I talk to other autistics or auDHD people, I feel more comfortable around our interaction as well. So it goes both ways, of course.
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Last year Zoe and I commenced operation “Oui Oui Baguette” to move our boat, Scarlet, from Gosport to La Rochelle in France. This was interrupted by a small engine fire which left us stranded in the Brittany port of Quiberon over winter to make repairs.
Anyway, we moved the boat to La Rochelle a month ago. Today we commence “Operation Churro”. We plan to leave La Rochelle shortly and in a single leg of 36-40 hours in the Bay of Biscay arrive at Hendaye on the French/Spanish border.
The orcas were attacking boats in this area about a month ago but since then seem to have moved west and are now heading south from Galicia to Lisboa so we should be safe from them (fingers crossed). Weather looks ok. We will probably be motoring for the first part with the hope we can sail from later today.
If you want to track us, you can follow us live here. marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai…
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“What you gonna do when you randomly have 12 months supply of HRT sitting around in your drawer, Sarah?”
“Build Oestrohenge!”
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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ See the little spray bottle in the middle?
That's more than a third of the E in that picture.
And none of that bottle came from a pharmacy of any kind 😉
This, right here, is what I look like right after the Elvanse wears off.
Sad, isn’t it?
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At some point in the last 4 months since starting ADHD meds the state I regard as normal has swapped over.
I’m currently in the post medicated state and I feel like some confused scared shadow of a person terrified of her own emotions which she doesn’t understand and bemused by the world.
This used to be who I was all the time.
That’s a lot to come to terms with.
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So what’s it like being on amphetamine?
Well it’s a lot like being on HRT except you’d have to detransition every day before bed.
Racing Thoughts In ADHD & How To Calm Them
Imagine your mind is like a web browser with dozens of tabs open, all playing videos or music at the same time. For many people with ADHD, this is what everyday thinking feels like.Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc (Simply Psychology)
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@Valdus With some more exploration, timing the stimulants to run out just before bed, IF I then actually go to bed. Too long and not only do I lose the executive function to go to bed, the racing thoughts start up and keep me awake.
However, there's a nice little cheat mode to get round this that I've discovered, which I like to call, "a bedtime double espresso"
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sounds like the UK's 'Third Sex' category bullshit.
The UKs GRA has been undermined by the SC ruling in April to imply we aren't and never were awarded protection of the sex we are. Even though the GRA said we were. Gaslighting.
Isabel
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@Natasha_Jay
It looks very unlikely that Humphreys will get elected, but you're right, it doesn't look good.
However, good on Ruth for calling it out in the Dail...