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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago

Ah, actually, caffeine can be really contra-productive for autistic people.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 days ago

I was only ever observed to have autism, but I highly suspect that I'm audhd. What kind of hell is this where caffeine can help my ADHD focus but harms my autistic focus

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 48 points 2 days ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

I'm doing thousands of calculations per second and they're all wrong

[-] joulethief@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If it's any consolation, I'm AuDHD myself (ADHD diagnosed first) and I would have never made it this far without copius amounts of caffeine.

Edit: To expand on this, my autistic tastebuds have rejected the taste of coffee until I was like 21. Imagine the astonishment following my first cup when I was bustling around actually getting things done for once.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

For me it doesn't make me feel awake, only incapable of sleeping. Which is hell, like being thirsty and not being able to drink

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Depends on use case - I find it helps a lot with things like competitive video games.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I seem to have developed some kind of ADHD in adulthood, while also avoiding caffeine in recent years. Now, if I drink two cups of coffee, I come to four fours later with fifty new tabs in the browser, the system deeply in swap, two new projects started and abandoned, and nothing actually done. If I'm lucky, some system reconfiguration that I've been putting off for months, will finally be made.

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