If you’re wondering why I’m publishing my fourth post of the day, it’s because I’m on an Adderall trip. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was six, which is also the age I got drunk for the first time, smoked my first cigarette, and fingered a girl. And you think I’m joking…
I’m on Adderall mostly because I want to stay awake long enough to revert back to my old sleep schedule. I’ve been awake since 2pm yesterday, and I have yet to sleep. Adderall really is a miracle drug. Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve always hated writing, and to write this many words in one sitting without being pressured to do so by a teacher with a yardstick (the way it was done in China, and she fucking used it on some poor kid), nor a professor in whose hands hold your future career (not that it mattered in my unemployed case anyways), is quite a pharmacological accomplishment.
Tea on the other hand, is a much subtler stimulant. In fact, it is so subtle, that I often fall asleep right after drinking tea. WTF you say? I have no idea either. Caffeine works sometimes, and other times makes me WANT to sleep instead. Once in college I had a history midterm the next day, and like usual I was pulling an all-nighter (26 times junior year). I took two caffeine pills, the equivalent to 4 coffees, and then proceeded to fall asleep within 25 minutes. That was one of the most disappointing Bs I’ve ever received.
My question is, why isn’t Adderall available to everybody? If it is safe enough to be distributed in massive dosages to kids, why isn’t it safe enough as an OTC medicine for adults? The government seems to flip out over any medicine that alters the state of mind, good or bad. Stop telling me what I can and cannot do to my own body!
Wow, that sounded like a pitch for abortion
