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Re:Me and ADHD by heavenlyblue on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:23AM (#25999715)
> My personal experience was that dextroamphetamine helped my (pretty severe) social anxiety by calming me.

This is what Cocaine, MDMA or alcohol in reasonable doses would do to you. Stimulants generally do this to everyone.

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Re:Me and ADHD by wk_end on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:55PM (#26007390)
Yeah, that might check out too.

I was sort of responding to the claims 1) that non-ADHD people "bounce off the walls" when using stimulants and/or 2) that ADHD people couldn't use stimulants socially because it calms and focuses them rather than amping them up. Either I'm in the former category, and then claim 1 doesn't really track because it genuinely is a calming sensation for non-ADHD people (sample size 1, myself), or I'm in the latter category and then claim 2 doesn't track because stims really can help ADHD sufferers (same methodology) with socializing.

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