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these blinkies go to therapy

or at least should

i can joke about this because I have all the mentioned illnesses and disorders and have tried three of these medications. hehe.

Been learning a lot about the intersection of brain worms (aka autism and adhd) and oh boy I did not know how badly concerta was fucking with me. o_o Apparently ritalin can be fine (though I have been wary of trying it again since I got off its extended form) but concerta will fuck you up, or at least it fucked me up. I feel a lot more alive and able to experience positive emotions in the past couple weeks off it, that's for sure! I learned the hard way that it was basically over stimulating my brain constantly but that wasn't apparent in Cowtown because there was almost no external stimulus. After several hours-long panic attacks and some quite spectacular meltdowns in a rather overwhelming working kitchen, I decided to go easy on the concerta and overall I'm having a much better time of things.

Basically, if you've got both ADHD and the tism, short actiing or no stimulants may be helpful sometimes as they turn the volume up on the tism and down on the screaming brain noise that is ADHD. But the long acting ones or at least concerta may overload you to a us unpleasant degree. And this is something that a lot of auti∵ics I've met already knew but I didn't meet one who told me until now. XD