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Caffeine symptoms

Hope

I am very sensitive to caffeine, and have got more sensitive with age. As a result I don't drink coffee, apart from decaff. Thankfully I never drink caffeinated soft drinks, and only eat chocolate in small doses. However, I do like my tea . Most of the time with tea I have no negative symptoms, even when the tea is quite strong (as I like it). But I always get very hyper, energetic and talkative. But occasionally I get the negative symptoms that I get with coffee, whenever the tea is too strong. I was with my support worker today when this happened. She also had strong tea and felt slightly sick afterwards, but nothing too bad. But I started off hyper, then grew jittery and nervous, with trembling, disorientation and slight dizzyness, not helped by being in a very hot room for an hour and the fact I was already tired after a busy week. My senses were heightened and the crowded room and flashing cameras added to my anxiety. I don't usually get  anxious about flashing lights, but  I think the caffeine must have made me a nervous wreck. The tea I had was EXTREMELY strong cafe tea, stronger than even I would normally have it. It took three hours until I felt fine again. Does anyone else experience this? I have read that the smaller you are, the less caffeine it takes to cause a reaction. I am very short in height and slender.

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  • I guess maybe you could say that a moderate amount of caffeine - or some form of stimulation - can negate some of the negatives associated with autism, energising and refreshing people enough to do some of the things that are otherwise so tiring, but unavoidable (such as socialisation, for me at-least), but too much will only intensify and hieghten the traits that are causing the issue in itself.

    I definitely have a kind of 'crash-and-burn' 4-hour or so cycle to my lifestyle, where I generally go to sleep 3-4 times a day, even if it's just for 10 minutes at a time.

    I have always hated it, it ruins my attempts to fit-in with 'normal' society, but nothing that I've tried - and I feel like I've tried most things - has substantially remedied it.

    Until my diagnosis it was very strange really. The idea of getting up in the morning and managing to get through an entire day until the late evening without at some point just collapsing from what I guess amounts to mental exhaustion is just something that is beyond me really.

    Maybe if all I had to do all day was sit in a room on my own and design computer-games or something like that.

    That's actually my dream.

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  • I guess maybe you could say that a moderate amount of caffeine - or some form of stimulation - can negate some of the negatives associated with autism, energising and refreshing people enough to do some of the things that are otherwise so tiring, but unavoidable (such as socialisation, for me at-least), but too much will only intensify and hieghten the traits that are causing the issue in itself.

    I definitely have a kind of 'crash-and-burn' 4-hour or so cycle to my lifestyle, where I generally go to sleep 3-4 times a day, even if it's just for 10 minutes at a time.

    I have always hated it, it ruins my attempts to fit-in with 'normal' society, but nothing that I've tried - and I feel like I've tried most things - has substantially remedied it.

    Until my diagnosis it was very strange really. The idea of getting up in the morning and managing to get through an entire day until the late evening without at some point just collapsing from what I guess amounts to mental exhaustion is just something that is beyond me really.

    Maybe if all I had to do all day was sit in a room on my own and design computer-games or something like that.

    That's actually my dream.

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