r/comics • u/DaveKellett SHELDON • 4d ago

OC Remember that drink I invented yesterday? (oc)

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COME for the acrid taste, but STAY for the lack of caffeine!

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u/novus_nl 4d ago

It's weird to me caffeine doesn't do anything to me. As dutch guy working in IT, coffee is there 24/7 so I drink more then I would like to admit.

Sometimes when I drink really a lot (7+ cups) I get a bit jittery, but I never feel more energized or more awake. After coffee I can also just go to sleep, doesn't change at all for me.

(*I do try to drink less coffee, because I can't believe its good to drink that much though.)

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u/AzKondor 4d ago

you may have ADHD

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u/kfpswf 4d ago

Please elaborate. The one day I overdid caffeine, I too just felt jittery and had a hard time falling asleep that night. It was a few years later that I was diagnosed with ADHD. Is there any causal link between ADHD, caffeine, and jittery-ness.

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u/TheW83 4d ago

Feeling jittery is normal when you have a lot of caffeine. ADHD tend to metabolize it slower or can be paradoxical and make you fall asleep rather than keep you awake (not in everyone with ADHD though).

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u/timbotheny26 4d ago

It's 50/50 with me. I have ADHD and sometimes I'll want to go to sleep after, or my hands are shaking and my eyes feel like they're going to pop out of my head.

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u/TheW83 4d ago

I feel like there's some sort of line between enough to be peaceful in your mind and too much as to where your body is physically reacting.

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u/PopularMarket7980 4d ago

> can be paradoxical and make you fall asleep rather than keep you awake (not in everyone with ADHD though).

Wait, really?

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u/TheW83 4d ago

So the best way I can explain is that people with ADHD have everything racing in their mind all the time, so often their mind is too busy to easily fall asleep. But caffeine kind of gives focus back and when they can finally think about a single thing they can fall asleep much more easily.

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u/PopularMarket7980 1d ago

Think I need some testing then, I used to drink coffee to fall asleep...