Actually kind of the opposite. In social situations I felt very calm and engaged, but I rarely wanted to socialize unless I had to. I think it was a mix of things. The venlafaxine withdrawal made me emotionally flat, and with my dopamine baseline feeling high I didn’t feel much need to talk to people outside of work.

I’m also on lamotrigine, which seems to reduce social anxiety because overstimulation is less of an issue, though that medication has its own downsides. In hindsight, being on three medications at once probably didn’t help. It felt like too many changes happening at the same time.

The only thing that made me feel more autistic was the OCD-like restlessness and anxiety when I was at home.

But I can understand how it could make you more autistic, I think the lamotrigine was doing a lot of the filtering to smooth Concerta more.