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Feb. 12th, 2016 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commodorifiedSo this is why at the tender age of 40-odd I started taking amphetamines.
Oddly, I WAS diagnosed as a child. I was also overmedicated, in retrospect—you know what, it was the 70s and from all I can find out everyone on Ritalin was getting too much of the stuff; I don't even know my exact dosage but it was 4-6 Ritalin/day—which led to a 30-year refusal to try again, and also, probably to my benefit, a life-long wariness of recreational drugs, on the grounds that if my experience of speed was so very very different from what other people described, I was not interested in finding out what happened if I took, say, psychedelics.
This is my brain on drugs, probably. If this were a spinning .gif with the saturation hiked up and thegoat sheep invoking ancient gods.
"...[G]irls’ symptoms include:
a tendency toward daydreaming
trouble following instructions
making careless mistakes on homework and tests."
Oh man, so you know how I turned into such a good proofreader? ABJECT TERROR. Which is NOT the way to develop a life skill, really.
Most of the things I'm really good at I acquired through a combination of a) hyperfocus and b) fear of being screamed at.
Oddly, I WAS diagnosed as a child. I was also overmedicated, in retrospect—you know what, it was the 70s and from all I can find out everyone on Ritalin was getting too much of the stuff; I don't even know my exact dosage but it was 4-6 Ritalin/day—which led to a 30-year refusal to try again, and also, probably to my benefit, a life-long wariness of recreational drugs, on the grounds that if my experience of speed was so very very different from what other people described, I was not interested in finding out what happened if I took, say, psychedelics.
This is my brain on drugs, probably. If this were a spinning .gif with the saturation hiked up and the
"...[G]irls’ symptoms include:
a tendency toward daydreaming
trouble following instructions
making careless mistakes on homework and tests."
Oh man, so you know how I turned into such a good proofreader? ABJECT TERROR. Which is NOT the way to develop a life skill, really.
Most of the things I'm really good at I acquired through a combination of a) hyperfocus and b) fear of being screamed at.
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Date: 2016-02-14 02:40 pm (UTC)Reading this all (including the stuff you linked to) now, I think that the only thing that "saved" me from ending up on this was my parents' not having enough money to spend on pharmaceutical stuff in those days.
Yowza.
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Date: 2016-02-14 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-15 05:04 pm (UTC)