It's me, I'm in this meme. Those are still technically medications, just self-prescribed.

Remember, it's society that is dysfunctional. We're accommodating it's dysfunction for our own safety and security.

I'm a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.

I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn't fix everything.

Joke’s on you - I’m medicated and still do all that

I just hit 6 months of being clean from weed after being a daily smoker for over 10 years!

The dose makes the poison. Weed is not a panacea but it sure as hell isn't the devil. If you are getting F'd up you need to cut back the dose or switch to edibles; you don't get as functionally high, but it's more intense and lasts longer. Also know your weed: Indicas are more of a "body high" (Sleepy, pain reduction, relaxation, "vibes") where as Sativas are more of a "mental high" (mental "buzz," creativity, giggles, anxiety reduction) get a good hybrid that focuses more on the thing you want to fix. If you are in a funk, a Sativa dominant strain is what you need, if you are burnt out, you need an indica dominant one.

So glad I grew out of this. I still drink copious amounts of tea but any amount of weed is destructive.

I'll share something I posted a good decade ago on Reddit.

I used to smoke at least a joint a day sometimes multiple. I was consistently wake and bake outside of work. You know what weed does that no one wants to discuss? It makes you complacent. It sucks your drive to do anything. As a young person that's a horrible place to be. You are young, you should be taking risks and you should be striving for better.

Coffee doesn't seem to do anything to me and idk what that means

i switched my coffee for a B complex gummy in the AM and a B12+D after lunch. It's been working gangbusters for my mood. Probably too much B vitamins but idgaf

What does it mean if I still do it medicated!? 😭

Coffee makes me sleepy. Weed makes me anxious. Focalin is like walking through a peaceful meadow with a god holding my hand and a muse whispering in my ear.

In my late 40s, hippie speed balls every morning. Bad(?) habit I picked up (again) within the past five years. Like a few other have said, it really levels me out, giving me the ability to fine tune my focus first thing in the morning. The absurdities at work nearly require marijuana consumption. Being a midday slug has been the only downside.

Ah yes, the good ol' hippie speedball. Was fun while it lasted but I'm glad I quit. Looking back, it didn't really make my ADD any easyier to handle, tbh. Just gave me a reward to focus on to do the mundane shit...

I personally just cannot smoke in the morning, I feel like an NPC for the next like 4 hours and just kinda disassociate 😭

Honestly both are fine as long as you stay within or below the average healthy limits (roughly 320mg/day for caffeine, weed might be less tested in that regard).

Just know your own limits and make sure you have water with you.