Serious question.

When I take Adderall I am more interested in other people. I find them interesting. I am interested in being sociable. It feels good. People like me. I can tell. Really.

Now when I don't take Adderall I don't much care for most people. I like some bright and interesting people.

I've long accepted that high IQ people like me and regular people distinctly do not. I never knew that my total lack of interest in people was putting them off. I thought it was normal. I very often resented having to Molly coddle and sweettallk minions into doing their damned jobs.

This is embarrassing to me. Have I been treating people dismissively because I have low dopamine? An understimulated brain? I have always assumed that people who groused that I "felt superior" were just butthurt and projecting their own feelings of inferiority. I didn't feel "superior";. I felt bored and disappointed and resentful.

I've always thought of adderall as a medicine for enhanced cognition. It never occurred to me that dopamine could make social interactions more interesting and therefore more pleasant and also more rewarding. People LIKE me when I'm on Adderall.

Can anyone relate?

Maybe it belongs in the ADD forum but I've always thought of my disinterest in most people as narcissism, and so have they, lol!