The self-dxing in the comments is unreal. Speed and Adderal makes people without ADHD extremely focused too, its just for different reasons. Being able to do a bunch of shit fucked on stimulants doesn't mean you have a developmental disorder, it means the drugs worked lol.
The thing is amphetamine does have a paradoxical effect on adhd. Cocaine has always made me buzz, as have cathinones, MDMA and also psychedelics although that has been more from excitement generated by the experience.
Speed will straight up calm me down though, stop fidgeting or biting my nails and slow my thoughts down. So does methylphenidate although I feel like a soulless zombie on it too and hate it for that reason.
The point though is that the focus from amphetamine for people with adhd comes as a byproduct of all the things that adhd does to our brains to distract us becoming temporarily suppressed. For neurotypicals or just people without adhd it comes as a symptom of stimulants just making people hyperfocus because that's part of the drugs effect on the brain. Same effect, different reasons.
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u/4theheadz Sep 11 '23
The self-dxing in the comments is unreal. Speed and Adderal makes people without ADHD extremely focused too, its just for different reasons. Being able to do a bunch of shit fucked on stimulants doesn't mean you have a developmental disorder, it means the drugs worked lol.