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Ah, actually, caffeine can be really contra-productive for autistic people.
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
Caffeine be like:
I'm doing thousands of calculations per second and they're all wrong
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.
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
Depends on use case - I find it helps a lot with things like competitive video games.
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.