Does Adderall have a different effect on aspies?

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So, the other day my friends came up to me at school, and were very excited. They told me they "scored" some adderall. I didn't really know what adderall did, and they just told me it made you super happy and focused. They all took I believe 50mgs of it. I didn't want to down 5 pills of a substance I barely know of so I just took 3. I took them and didn't notice any real effects. About 3 hours later I started to feel bored of everything I was doing. I wanted to do nothing. My head felt cloudy but I felt sort of happy and content, and a bit drowsy. They were all playing Skate 3 and were going crazy, when they handed me the controller I just declined. This went on for the a bit, and then I fell asleep on the couch.

I researched more about Adderall, and it is almost universally accepted that it makes you extremely focused and hyper. I felt the opposite. I have AS, and I can't tell if that changes the effects of adderall. My aspie friend is prescribed adderall, and says that when he takes it he gets sort of the same effect.

First off, you're friend should not be taking prescription drugs that haven't been prescribed to him and neither should you.

Anyway, I was given adderal and then adderal xr when I was 18. The first had no benefits that I can remember and the second made me feel very irritable in the mornings after taking it. I was then given Concerta (ritalin) which I think was fine.

Perhaps this is an indication of my desperation but I am personally eager for an ADHD diagnosis as I believe I need something as strong as ritalin or adderall to function​ in society. I have been unfocused my entire life, I never remember anything anyone says to me, and I become bored extremely easily. Hopefully I will have access to such drugs if my ADHD assessor concludes that I do have the condition.

Adderall made my stims turn into tics...but then so did every other stimulant I was on. "Stim" wasn't a word back when I was growing up. The term used was "tic". If my mom could have ignored them and not pointed them out all the time, I think I wouldn't have had such a problem with them. I was fine with a lot of things that were "off" about me until people started picking them out because they were not "normal". But how, at five years old do you tell your mother to piss off and leave you alone about it without getting hit by your father for being "disrespectful".

Adderall can speed some people up and for others it can have a paradoxical sedating effect.

what's done is done, and I kind of feel like you don't deserve everyone jumping down your throat about it?

I think campin_cat has a point about drugs affect everyone differently. my aspie friend who was the first to go "hey you think like me" takes adderall daily and feels a pretty noticeable "standard" effect (more alert and focused), while I was prescribed adderall by a rather not-bright prescriber I don't go to anymore and felt absolutely nothing at all. I even ran an experiment, I would wait until my partner wasn't looking to take it, if I was going to take it, and then a few hours later I would ask if he thought I had taken it that day or not. every time his reasoning was "random guess," even when I occasionally doubled the prescribed dosage. but he's definitely on the spectrum and I'm probably on the spectrum (undiagnosed and untrusting of my self-assessment), so that's not the variable that causes the difference.

Even when I was a teen myself, I would never take drugs offered to me by other kids, no how great they claimed it made them feel. Why was I so different? I thought Asperger's was the main reason I didn't do such things.

Prescription drug abuse has become a really serious problem. I hate taking prescription drugs for my mental health, because I've had so many awful experiences with their side effects in the past. I hate how they want you to take a pill for everything. I don't care if I get arthritis all over my whole body, they are not getting me addicted to painkillers.

Well, I probably would take them, if it was the only way to get relief, but I feel guilty just taking Tylonel for a headache.

To reply to a question I am being asked a lot here, yes I know not to take drugs I barely know about. You got to realize that 1. These guys are my friends who I have known for years and that 2. I have tried quite a few "psychotropic substances", and am not very scared of taking a one off drug. Despite knowing a lot about many substances, I have never researched or really cared to know about the effects of adderall.

If I knew that it was essentially an analogue of meth I would reject the offer. But what is done is done, and I can't go back on it. It was a dumb idea. I know.

Because the autistic brain has atypical neurology, any kind of mood drug can have unexpected side effects.

I was put on an antidepressant for anxiety and eventually it started making me aggressive and reckless.

Adderall doesn't make me hyper or excited at all. I'm prescribed it for my duel adhd/asd diagnosis. I've never understood how it could make someone hyper because even after taking high doses it still doesn't make me excited. All it does for me is calm me down and makes me extremely focused on tasks to the point where nothing can interrupt me. I've tried to get "high" off it to see what it's like, but nope, even after taking up to 100mg, I feel no "high" or hyper euphoria that people described. It pisses me off when people "score" adderall because it make people who actually need it look bad.