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Is there a stranger effect on aspies than neurotypicals when coffee is introduced?
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31 Dec 2008, 2:41 pm

I drink coffee almost every day, and it doesn't make me hyper. But it does make me get hot and I sweat, and I often get itchy for a few minutes (even cold coffee has done this to me). I don't know why exactly. I don't consider it enough of a problem for me to stop drinking coffee.



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31 Dec 2008, 5:01 pm

Not so much a cup or two of coffee, but larger doses of caffeine, yes...I bought a bottle of NoDoz once (caffeine pills) and shared them with my friends...my friends would take one, and not much would happen...I'd take one, and I'd start dancing like a madman @_@

Try to cut down on caffeine these days, it just makes me..."jittery" I guess, Idunno, just makes me feel weird, like my heart's going to implode =/


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31 Dec 2008, 5:13 pm

Coffee dosent have create any strange hyper effects on me, in fact after drinking it for a while it stopped being as effective in waking me up so now that Im on break, i havent drank any coffee until school starts up again so hopefully it'll start being effective again, I have early class and I dont wanna have to resort to stronger caffiene intake.



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24 Jul 2010, 2:13 am

Sora wrote:
Oh yeah. I do not drink coffee, but caffeine makes me feel calmer, less hyperactive, a fraction more concentrated (probably because I'm not that active) and I can easily fall asleep.
- Sora - That's what caffeine does for me also: caffeine makes me feel calmer, less hyperactive, a fraction more concentrated, and I can easily fall asleep hours later after the caffeine has slowly exited my system. Am ADHD Inattentive. I can drink coffee but the caffeine content of coffee varies enormously so I opt for a FDA approved caffeine medicine (caffeine - 100 mg) sold as an alertness aid. - pgd



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24 Jul 2010, 2:25 am

Coffee has literally no effect on me. I tend to think people are lying when they say it makes them feel different (whatever that difference might consist in).



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24 Jul 2010, 2:53 am

For a very long time I thought coffee had no effect on me. I would drink it and not feel any more alert or anything. But I've noticed a number of times that when I drink it in the evenings (hey, I'm a college student), and then try to go to bed a few hours later, I get this strange twitchy feeling in my spine, particularly the back of my neck, and it makes me feel kind of jerky and uncomfortable. I don't generally get this twitchiness during the day when I have coffee, though, so I'm not really sure what to make of it.


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