should i stop playing on chess.com if i'm using my adhd medication?
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i have severe adhd, and usually simple stimulants help me focus, but this makes me have an unfair advantage against people that play with me, since i can focus way more when on medication. should i have another account that i use specifically for playing chess while on my adhd meds? or should i stop playing fully?
It doesn’t give you an unfair advantage I I have the same thing and I still lose all the time, it doesn’t help you focus in a way that makes it unfair.
#4 why not? ADHD isn’t some horrible disease, it’s just something that makes it hard to focus and makes you more hyper
Lol
Lots of geniuses In history had adhd
Mar 23, 2022
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#8
If your natural condition makes it hard to focus and you take prescription medication for it, the effect is more or less +/- 0. Why worry?
Mar 23, 2022
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#9
As always, you should talk with your physician. Not the collective clown circus here in the forums. Best to you.
I think you should still be able to play with meds it's not really a big deal because you have a condition
#1
There are therapeutic use exemptions: see 4.4
https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/FIDEAntiDopingRules.pdf
M1m1c15 wrote:
Lots of geniuses In history had adhd
...and most freeked out b4 they knew the facts.
Mar 23, 2022
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#14
Many people need medications to be able to sleep, see clearly, have enough strength to stand and move around, control schizophrenia, etc; or even just to stay alive. Of course all these people are much better able to play chess than they would be if they didn't take their meds but no one can complain that they are somehow cheating at chess.
Even in the Olympics and other international sports, people with serious medical conditions that can only be controlled with drugs that are banned for competitors can obtain waivers that allow them to compete anyway. So don't worry, no one minds that you need your medications.
ADHD just makes it hard to focus, the medication just prevents that
Mar 23, 2022
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#16
From what I’ve heard from people with it though, you can hyperfocus on things you enjoy. So someone with Adhd could actually just focus more on chess if they really enjoyed it.
That’s true, people just call it obsession though
No it’s different for people with ADHD, they can hyper focused on another level, it’s almost obsessive in an unhealthy way
thank you, everyone, i was actually overthinking this LMAO.