- Adderall writers do not know when to stop, and often get caught in a loop of obsessive, seemingly endless revisions. [...] Eventually, a decent thesis is appended or even supplanted by convoluted idées fixes, which are inevitably replaced by new, equally torturous ones[.]
- Adderall writers often become fixated on one tiny detail, rolling it over and over in their mind, again and again, gaining more and more momentum, until they finally lose the plot.
- Counterintuitively, Adderall-induced fixations can also atomize your attention span entirely. But when you’re jacked up on middle class meth, a total lack of focus is no reason to slow down, much less stop. You go big. You find a new idea to explore, a tangent to build out, more citations, more research, anything to keep going and growing.
- On high enough doses, and with a long enough timeline, the symptoms of heavy Adderall use are indistinguishable from the symptoms of heavy cocaine use.
- Sometimes, an Adderall user may experience what they believe to be an epiphany, as if they’ve been personally chosen from on high to receive a heretofore unknown gospel. The bolt of clarity that strikes them is rarely, if ever, a good idea, but almost always implicitly trusted.
- If the epiphany fails to come, Adderall may inspire a powerful wanderlust in the service of a writer’s creative self-actualization. In other words, they start trying on new hats. Adderall House Style sees a lot of hard pivots in form, sometimes mid-project, and most of which are not suited to a writers’ skillset or talents.
- Writers rarely confess their Adderall usage on the page, but they tend to leave a lot of tell-tale signs. You can’t prove it, of course. Sentences like “I had gone three days without sleep” aren’t a smoking gun, but they do raise the question; “well, how did you pull that off?”
- Have you ever noticed that drugs that suppress your appetite for food so often increase your appetite for enemies? Adderall writers can be very quick to attack. And, if you haven’t noticed the pattern by now, they have a hard time knowing when to stop. Critique becomes invective, invective mutates into vituperation. The resulting work is humorless, nasty and emotionally exhausting. Sometimes, you can observe the Adderall rage rising in real time. You could be editing a book review, maybe from a formerly collegial and mild-mannered adjunct, and see successive drafts become progressively vicious, leaving you to wonder whether the nutty professor has actually read the book or simply discovered the author fucking his mother.
- Paranoia is a common side effect of prolonged stimulant use, and when you’ve convinced yourself that someone is out to get you, it makes sense to find, expose and attack them. You rationalize your hostility as reciprocation, self-preservation, and self-defense. Paranoia also manifests in textual analysis. [...] Adderall inspires baseless suspicions and intensifies the desire to decode the uncoded[.]