The worst is trying to explain at how necessary the medication is. Having to explain that I cannot work without it
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Never tell people you take adderall. They'll ask you for adderall to get high.
Or launch into a tirade about how it's fake and doesn't do anything and be reeeeally fucking insistent on it
Or accuse you of selling drugs
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(this advice does not apply if you want to sell adderall)
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Feels a bit like projection to assume prescription drugs are obtained and taken without a prescription. If my pills are in a properly labeled bottle, I sure as shit didn't buy them off Terry on the corner.
Unless Terry is running a very weird business and/or love his labelprinter
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I've had someone tell me with a straight face that I'm "basically taking meth".
This is the same kind of person that says "American cheese slices are one molecule away from being plastic!"
I like to pour them a glass of peroxide and tell them to drink it. It's basically water. Literally just a molecule away from being water bro. Drink it bro, cmon! It's just a molecule!
Meth is the #1 most abused drug by clinical scientists. That is to say, just like functional alcoholism is a thing, there's functional meth heads among some of the most well-respected and reputable scientists in the world. Anyway that would be my response if I was told I was basically taking meth.
That's not really a good way to spin it. Having ADHD is nothing like functional alcoholism. An alcoholic is destructively addicted to alcohol, and a functional one is really good at hiding it.
ADHD is a condition outside of any external influence, and medication helps normalize individuals dealing with it.
Your approach is the logical equivalent of a burglar saying "I rob people's homes because they have guns to defend themselves".
What? No? I don't think the scientists abusing meth all have ADHD or they'd have meds prescribed by their doctor. What I was saying was just a tongue in cheek response to someone telling you that you're basically taking meth.
I am really not following your analogy.
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I mean, you technically sort of are taking meth in a way, but that's because you need it since you react differently to it.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with someone with severe physical trauma being given fentanyl for example.
you technically sort of are taking meth in a way
You are 100% NOT taking meth when you take ADHD stims. The only thing linking the two is the core ingredient which is a methyl-5 molecule, which your body makes on its own.
The drug meth is a synthetic methyl-5 compound with a ton of other nasty crap in it that doesn't exist in ADHD medication.
Like I said, whoever says that is in the same group as the American cheese is almost plastic crowd.
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dexamphetamine literally lacks the methyl group which gives "meth" it's name.
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See a doctor
Done.
Don't take drugs.
But... the doctor said...
Why are you listening to doctors?
But... you said...
No, see, if you visit a doctor, you're cured.
Can I just walk in the waiting room and read a couple magazines for the same effect?
Best way to respond. Are you? Learning impaired.
"Maybe you should mind your own fucking business."
I mean.. at least they're not trying to sell you supplements, essential oils, or other shit.
Also why I never tell people I associate with about what I have or what I take. I leave it at "I have a condition" and then change the subject, like I'm a sad Victorian ophan trying to stay positive even as I am consumed by the knowledge that soon the plague will take me. (:
this is why the proper response in panel 3 is ‘no, fuck off’