A thing they don’t tell you when you start amphetamine for ADHD, but they SHOULD, is that what they do is NOT make you function like a neurotypical.

What they actually do is turn you into a person with ADHD with greater capacity.

Sometimes MUCH greater capacity.

And there can be a honeymoon phase when you’re all like, “OMG! I’m saved! I can do all the things now!”

And the risk is that you will use the extra capacity to mask harder and engage in more of the same stuff that was causing burnout.

And then 3-6 months later you find yourself in the same place you started but with an amphetamine habit. Also you can sit still.

I see a LOT of people online who hit the point a few months in where they conclude they have stopped working and start desperately doing meds breaks, long supplement recipes, etc to get back the “functionality”.

And these people, more often than not, also seem to have massive internalised ableism. They never accept their own disability, instead thinking it’s their “duty” to use any means possible to “not inflict my shame on anyone else”.

And using up that extra capacity from amphetamine to do that is a nasty trap because you can’t go back. Ever.

You HAVE to accept what you are.