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Referring to alcohol or cannabis as social lubricants has been criticized because they have negative effects on empathy.

I feel like weed does the opposite to that lol
to me at least ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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[โ€“] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I learned a while ago that there are two types of people.

Some people can think inside their own head, and hear themselves think. They aren't "hearing voices". They ARE the voice. So they might see some guy on the bus stand up stick his ass in an elderly womans face, and start violently shitting on her. The person seeing this might in their own head say "WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!" but people around them would have no knowledge of him calling that guy an asshole.

Meanwhile, the other type of people are completely unable to hear themselves inside their own head. So every thought they have comes verbally out of their mouth. They still think about things, and they still do all the other things the first type of people do, except it's all verbal. You hear their thoughts as they have them.

I'm the first type of person, but when I smoke weed two things happen.

Number 1, I become the second type of person.

And number 2, my ability to finish my thoughts, vanishes. Instead I start one train of thought, realize halfway through it's stupid, and then switch to a completely different unrelated train of thought which makes no sense with the first half.

And all of this is happening verbally, and from my perspective in slow motion with distorted reality.

The end result is people who know me as quiet and usually pretty responsible, and smart will blurt out something like:

We should go on a boat, and buy a dinosaur to bring to the afterparty!"

Everyone just looks at me like "Now did you mean for those words to fall out of your mouth in that order? Or are you just as surprised as the rest of us?"

[โ€“] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

You are ADHD. That's the most ADHD brained behavior I've ever heard.

Source: I am also like this.

[โ€“] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Oh yeah. You DEFINITELY need to come over and smoke a cone with me.