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I’m not so sure. I was prescribed adderal for 2 years and I definitely noticed I was a bit dumber on it, in general I was worse at problem solving, I was just super focused and so could work at a problem longer.

As an example, while on adderal my chess score dropped from ~1000 down to ~700 and within two weeks of getting off of it it went right back up.



My chess rating usually goes up when I’m procrastinating. My procrastination usually goes down when I’m on methylphenidate.




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