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.
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.
In a way, it is…
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I had the exact same reaction and i don’t trust that sentiment, i think i’m just hoping for a singular miracle pill that i can take and it will solve all my issues.
Still thought it was worth a try but even getting an appointment with a psychologist of any kind was tough, so here i am still unmedicated even though i relate to a lot of ADD symptoms
I can add an unfortunate example in the opposite direction: I’ve been having trouble getting my prescription filled so I haven’t had my meds for more than a month
My handwriting has deteriorated observably (my phone is actually having trouble recognizing my swipe-typing gestures, too) and my living space is in shambles. Fuck the DEA.
Ritalin made me feel miserable and paranoid
It was the opposite effect on me. Have you tried crescenta?
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.
This comic is cute, but I don’t want people to set the wrong expectations for adhd medication. For everyone across the board, it doesn’t work like a stimulant, as in make you faster, but quiets you down and allows you to focus. But you may still be tired or depressed. In short, it’s not a magic pill and you should reflect on the affect it has on you. Some people can take their meds and go to sleep, that’s one way to tell how it affects you.
Yeah yeah, but do I get to be a dog?
Doesn’t work that way for me. I just look back at the day and realize I was less distracted than usual.
That’s not necessarily true. Myself, and several other people I know, have definitely experienced a boost from stimulants, just not in the same wired way neurotypical people get. Sometimes it feels like a weight off your shoulders that in a way almost feels stimulating. At the very least more talkative.
Yeah that’s why I didn’t generalize my comment to all people
Meds will turn me into a furry? Ok i’m in.
Meds made me go from “I had confusing feelings about Tails and We’re Back: a Dinosaur Story when I was six” to “my ass is chock full of Bad Dragon dildoes”
The plural is just dildos
in jan misali’s perfect spelling reform, dildoes is correct
i have changed the plural, pray i do not alter it further.
Is Dan Quayle available to weigh in?
Dildii
Dildopodes
dilduses, but pronounced like it’s greek
Dildopodes dildii sounds very scientifically probable when you know there are things like Amorphophallus fornicatus.
What a weird thread to meet in :D
That was my favourite character in the Iliad!
Dildoes seem right, dildoesn’t it?
It dildoes
Dildoeoeoes
Yep, depends on the length.
I’m gonna need some more “e”s and “o”s for a couple of mine
Me too!
Vyvanse ended up making the dog way bigger on some days, I’m on atomoxetine and that’s been way more manageable.
In case anyone has found themselves to be sensitive to stimulant medication, don’t be afraid to ask about trying non-stimulants 🙂
Atoxetmine gave me wicked mood swings on the come down. And also, sexually, when I came, it would feel muted. Like felt like a 1/2 cum.
This made my relationship with my wife waaaaay worse.
Ritalin is the only ADHD med that Taiwan has access to. The come down is less intense.
Non-stimulants? I am on extended release ritalin and it suuuuucks. Everything is the same as it used to be but now i feel like i am on speed for 5 minutes, an hour after i take it.
Everythings sucks 🥺
Wow brilliant, this is one of the best explanation for ADHD ever
Adhd meds turn you into a Furry confirmed (although, what you you already were one beforehand? Does it cancel out?)
Furry squared
the furrier equation
Furrier transform
fuck that’s what i meant to write, i hate my brain
Mmmmmmm, furry TF, you say!
Furrier transfemation
You’re just a very FOCUSED furry
I’m at my third type of medication and still no difference. At least I’m not absolutely drained as on first one but yet to see a positive impact. Yes, I’m diagnosed.
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.
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.
I hope my kid gets to feel this way someday
If my kid ever feels like this, I am going to be angry, and have a LOT of questions. Mostly in a very pissed off tone.
…I don’t have kids, and the last time someone COULD HAVE potentially gotten pregnant from me and kept it secret would have been 2006. But I’m 99.9% sure I don’t have kids.
So if I found out I have a kid, I would be confuuuuuuused.
would you… lose your mind?
Steady on there, Genghis.
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Yeah this is really hitting home. Looking forward to getting them evaluated
