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What are you on?

Questella

Questella

Peace, Love and all that good stuff
Do people ever just say this to you?

I guess most people are just ready to call the cops, but a few times when it was just a friend or acquaintance witnessing my meltdown, they always want to know what you're on.

Ugh, it's horrible and I wish I WAS on something...

I don't know what to say to people and when I just try to say I'm not on anything of course they don't believe me because I'm *obviously* "fcked up".


#sadness
 
I have actually been accused of being on drugs a lot lol I just laugh because I think its just a joke. It doesn't really upset me at all and definitely doesn't make me wish I was on something. I cant stand drugs even pain med's the doctor has given me. They go in a lock box until they expire "just in case" and get thrown away. When your not aware of how you feel most the time... anything that alerts you to how you do feel isn't welcome.
 
People I joke around with a lot sometimes ask if I'm high (in a joking kind of way), but never been asked in a serious way, but then again, I don't go out much in winter, but with summer almost here (in Australia, that is), things may change.
 
Questella said:
Do people ever just say this to you?

I guess most people are just ready to call the cops, but a few times when it was just a friend or acquaintance witnessing my meltdown, they always want to know what you're on.

Ugh, it's horrible and I wish I WAS on something...

I don't know what to say to people and when I just try to say I'm not on anything of course they don't believe me because I'm *obviously* "fcked up".
#sadness
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Ugh, yes, people are ridiculously insensitive when making such harsh comments. I had a hairdresser who I liked as a hairdresser, but during appointments she began commenting on my shaking (which may at the time been exacerbated by the fact that I was prescribed a high dosage of Prozac). She started mentioning about how her brother was a drug addict, and she kept bringing the subject up during her appointments. Since this made me very uncomfortable, I chose a different hairdresser from then on.

This reminds me somewhat of my post on the recent thread about criminal justice, and how I was accused of possessing illegal drugs when laboratory tests later confirmed otherwise and dismissed the accusations.
 
23andaspie said:
Ugh, yes, people are ridiculously insensitive when making such harsh comments. I had a hairdresser who I liked as a hairdresser, but during appointments she began commenting on my shaking (which may at the time been exacerbated by the fact that I was prescribed a high dosage of Prozac). She started mentioning about how her brother was a drug addict, and she kept bringing the subject up during her appointments. Since this made me very uncomfortable, I chose a different hairdresser from then on.
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YIKES, I would have chosen another hairdresser, too! I have really bad hand tremors due to a thyroid disorder. I HATE it when people comment on it.

I've had people jokingly ask me "What are you on?" if I was being goofy or something, but not since I was a teenager, probably.
 
I'm high on life!

All joking aside; it's when I'm on drugs or liquor when people actually pass me for "more normal". Being sober gives me away, lol
 
in highschool people used to think i was a dealer and had some great connections..... but i never did any heavy drugs, didn't smoke weed until last christmas (i'm almost 32) and i'll admit i had some alcohol in highschool but i would have some vodka and koolaid or a wine cooler or two.. i never wanted to get black out drunk, just relaxed enough to .. well.. relax. stop stuttering, hold a conversation, talk about some stuff i've been wanting to talk about.. or just talk about anything since i usually can't talk much due to the whole stuttering issue

i still get it to this day when i say anything in a public setting (ie: typing online or if i can push through and say one of my thoughts outloud).... i might not get it in person as often because i talk less about anything i'm really thinking about than i did when i was a kid. but still i'll often get something like "wtf are you talking about?" or such.
 
People presumed I was an addict/dealer from the time I was 12 to about 21. I suppose this is because I was spaced out all the time and would intentionally ignore people. It also helped their case that I was quite gaunt and always had black circles under my eyes. In reality though, I never even touched recreational drugs.
 
Growing up in Bathurst in Australia on my teenage years I was just high on life and really was happy on the outside but desperately lonely for some kind of special person. Or group of friends maybe. I still have that in me but I'm managing that better now.

It's really weird looking back on that time. There was a huge sex drive, super attraction to opposite sex, hormones going crazy, parties, great music, loving family, fantastic movies, loads of outdoors stuff but something still missing.

I was often asked what I was on especially at parties.

Often people asked what on earth I was talking about but being pretty smart I worked out quickly how to remain funny and slightly weird as opposed to just right out there weird.

Even now when my guard is down people often ask what I am on and/what are you talking about?!

I just the majority of people to not think very deeply about anything at all.

Like I could think or talk for hours about why we think we're here on earth it what might be after death or theories about why the planets just don't spin off into space or fall into the sun or does gravity even really exist.

All my colleagues at work want to talk about is football.

Zero interest for me. I try to act interested but then I get invited out to a game and then itMs truly awkward trying to get out of watching (so boring).

Anyway, yes, I still often get accused of being on some drug.

I do smoke skullcap and have no preconceived I'll-feelings towards anyone taking drugs, I just don't use drugs per se ... Except my skullcap once in a while.
 
Yes, this has been said to me numerous times when I am over excited and when I say: nothing! I get: wow wish I could have some of that "nothing" then?! And no, it does not offend me, because I actually take it has a compliment.

I rarely have meltdowns, thankfully and mostly when it happens, I am at home.

What does upset me is when I am told to be quiet, when others are being just as loud. I feel that I am being told off as a child by an adult and yet, mostly it is me being the older one. It happened last night, but for once I was able to shrug it off, despite feeling embarrassed that I allowed myself to be myself for once!
 
I was so twitchy and quick-witted as a teen that most people asked if I was on crack. Well, the druggies asked if I was on crack. The normal people that I was just weird.
 
I'm telling ya, it's a super power. NTs have all these filters so they need stuff to remove them. We need stuff to create filters because we have none. So our normal is an NTs drunk or stoned and their normal is our drunk or stoned
 
I'm not on any drugs but sometimes I can give ppl a cocaine kind of vibe. a little charlie sheen like... I would feel embarrassed afterwards but at the moment I really have no idea I act that way.
 
ChrisC1983 said:
I'm telling ya, it's a super power. NTs have all these filters so they need stuff to remove them. We need stuff to create filters because we have none. So our normal is an NTs drunk or stoned and their normal is our drunk or stoned
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While I have no issue with most people thinking I might be on something as it's essentially none of their damn business. It becomes an issue when cops stop and frisk you because they suspect you're a druggie or a bouncer a club stops you because their policy is to not let people under influence of drugs attend said club. It's not like these things never happened...

And to be honest; I'm not really up to pee in a cup for either of them to show I'm sober.
 
King_Oni said:
While I have no issue with most people thinking I might be on something as it's essentially none of their damn business. It becomes an issue when cops stop and frisk you because they suspect you're a druggie or a bouncer a club stops you because their policy is to not let people under influence of drugs attend said club. It's not like these things never happened...

And to be honest; I'm not really up to pee in a cup for either of them to show I'm sober.
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omg I can't rent a car either! I had one reserved and we went to pick it up and they said I couldn't take it because I was *obviously* under the influence of *something* at least they'll let me get a motel room (never tried a fancy place though, but I wouldn't be surprised to be turned away from their too)

#hateslife

[maybe I should have a stiff drink before going to rent the car! LMAO It would be so funny if they gave it to me!]

just to clarify, I've never drunk drove in my life and don't plan on starting it would just be like a thing if they gave me a car when I wasn't sober but I couldn't get one when I was)
 
Questella said:
omg I can't rent a car either! I had one reserved and we went to pick it up and they said I couldn't take it because I was *obviously* under the influence of *something* at least they'll let me get a motel room (never tried a fancy place though, but I wouldn't be surprised to be turned away from their too)

#hateslife

[maybe I should have a stiff drink before going to rent the car! LMAO It would be so funny if they gave it to me!]

just to clarify, I've never drunk drove in my life and don't plan on starting it would just be like a thing if they gave me a car when I wasn't sober but I couldn't get one when I was)
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That makes me wonder if they can actually refuse you a service like that, as, if they assume you're on something that makes you a risk, I'm inclined to say "prove it". It's easy to refuse someone a service based on these grounds, but I feel that's a big allegation to call someone out on it.

I guess I could've argued back and forth with a bouncer, but, let's just say, any establishment hiring people that judgmental isn't a place I'd be interested in attending. Never visited that place again, not drunk or sober based on a matter of principle.
 
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