When adhd gets quieter, autism gets louder…

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to understand what dexamfetamine actually does to me. Not whether it ‘works’ or ‘doesn’t work’, but how it changes the way I experience the world. At first I wasn’t sure what I was noticing. I kept saying that the medication made me feel ‘more autistic,’ which sounds strange because medication obviously can’t make someone more autistic. But that was the…