Just to revisit this thread. I was sort of “one foot in one foot out” about my diagnosis and figured that the true “test” would be how I felt after medication.
I can now confirm that my mind is just as active, but it’s not jumping around all over the place. I feel like an alien who’s starting to learn the language of the local natives and learn their behaviors/studying them. It’s been an interesting experience so far. I still feel like me, but I feel more empowered to do all those things that were already in my head, and do them much better than I was able to do them before.
(So I think that makes me a freeking genius now right? 
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Seriously though, I am thankful for my crazy exciting, “racecar” brain and I’m thankful for you all here being a great sounding board for me and everyone else just “waking up” to this thing. I think that my life (if it keeps going like this) is going to get a lot more fun even if I don’t take the easy road, it will at least be interesting and not as stressful as it’s been so far.
I’ll probably still think about more than mashed potatoes, but at least I won’t wander off to look up something on the internet in the middle of making them because of some burning curiosity. I’m a good cook already, (though I rarely follow recipes save baked goods) so imagine how awesome stuff will come out now! ;p
Ok… enough from me. Again, thank you all for taking part and being so fun and interesting to talk with.
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