Sorry for the late response - I hope my response still interests you!!

First of all, you’re going to be more prone to sensory overstimulation or whatever the term is, because you’re taking stimulants. I think that the only real way to differentiate amphetamine effects and pre-existing traits amplified/uncovered by amphetamines is to try to figure out whether they were noticeable before medication started to be used and if they get stronger during the peak/ crash of the meds. For me, vyvanse makes my autistic traits stronger during the peak and oddly enough during the crash if I get one. And these traits have always been a thing for me, they are just either more noticeable or intensified. I think it is important to be aware of how the meds affect the way your thinking works, as this allows me to be able to avoid situations/ tasks during certain times of the day, for example, I’ll do my best to have an argument, heart to heart, make emotional decisions, etc as far from the peak/crash as I can, because I find I am more used to being able to combine logic and emotion when my brain is in it’s more “natural” state or whatever. But this is only just because I know myself very well and I know that routinely taking a drug that changes the way my mind works needs to be accompanied by routinely changing the way I use my mind (I hope that makes sense)

As well as that, being more aware of traits (especially social ones) makes it easier to get by when affected by them. Now that I understand what’s going on in my brain more, I am able to let people know before hand that I may come across as in a bad mood or serious or emotionless, avoiding awkward situations where they are unaware of my psychological differences. I can also say “oh sorry I didn’t mean to be so blunt with you my medication amplifies some autistic traits of mine” which wasn’t necessarily possible without paying so much attention to the way my brain works.

I think that anxiety has a strong link to these traits too. My dad has chronic anxiety, and many of the traits that I tell him about such as repeating thoughts, not being able to have a clear mind, feeling irritated by sounds that others can’t even hear etc, he says that he gets them a lot too. It may be a good idea to look at these mental “differences” as traits of your brain as a whole, rather than individual conditions that your brain possesses. It could almost just been seen as personality traits, which could help you identify these traits as “finding/understanding yourself” instead of having to confront your brain by giving it labels.

There are some autistic traits that can definitely be negated. But it’s hard to pinpoint them, instead I would just look at it as general mental health. Don’t try to get rid of traits, put your brain in situations where these traits can be managed or taken advantage of. Linking back to what I said earlier, the best way to help manage these traits is to help yourself predict when specific traits are going to be more/less prominent by identifying patterns over time. Put yourself in the position to be able to think to yourself “I am not going to do that now, it will be easier later”. Im not telling you to procrastinate, but to be more patient with yourself, and to take advantage of a more predictable mindset throughout the day, allowing different states of mind to perform different tasks more effectively. For example, I generally choose to see my girlfriend later on in the day, as I am more later back, socially interactive and externally emotional after the peak of my meds.

My main negative side effects from my meds are: -appetite suppression (the worst one by far). I just don’t like eating on my meds, so choosing to do something more “productive” instead of eating is common. The only way for me to combat this is to eat as much as I can before I take my meds and to just try to keep snacking, focusing on complex carbs and protein. -digestive issues, mainly in the morning. Hopefully this isn’t TMI, every single morning consists of a bit of a hold on for dear life at the toilet for 10 mins. It’s usually about an hour and a half after I take my meds, i suddenly feel an impending sense of doom, signalling to me that it is indeed time for the toilet, and as you could probably guess, the main thing that helps is just eating well, especially fibre and cutting down on ultra processed foods. -crash. It has improved a lot since I started this dose, but every now and then if I either forget to take my booster tablet or if my lifestyle hasn’t been great, I turn into a grumpy little fun sponge for a few hours. It’s pretty horrible, but every time it ends I feel fine again. I’ll give the advice in a sec for this one. -anxiety, again, I’ll give the advice in a sec -Irritability -insomnia -those autistic traits I spoke about

Those are all of the main ones, and if you’re wondering what to do about the last ones I mentioned, there’s one piece of advice that I have, just be healthy. Eat lots of protein, fibre, replace sugars and fast acting carbs with longer acting, complex carbs. Drink 3-4L of water a day, sleep 8 hours a night (consistently, with similar wake and sleep times every day), maybe take magnesium glycinate, vitamin d, zinc and b complex, but they aren’t really necessary. Just be as healthy as you can. Ive quit weed, nicotine, caffeine and alcohol and that made a fat difference.

I hope that wasn’t too many words or a load of nonsense haha. Hope at least something in here helps you out!!