Reality experience

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Ok i was wondering if anyone gone through the new reality experience. I mean before you were diagnosed with aspergers you thought everthing you saw was reality but then they diagnose you and put you on medications. They put me on Dexedrine/adderall and adderall and risperdal have been what i have been taking since i was 17 im 22 now. What im trying to ask is when they put you on medication did your how reality change and everthing looked different. I didnt know what my hand looked like till they put me on meds. Anbody have a simular experience

No. Believe it or not.

I was on Dexedrine when I was young. It didn't change my perception of the world but it did noticably alter my behavior.

If it took me 10 minutes to solve one math problem when normally I could solve 20 in that time, I would immediately know I forgot to take my medicine that morning

One thing you said both confused me and perked my interest:

Medication slows my thoughts down so I can process them a bit better. Although the processor is still a bit on the rusty side.
I'd rather not take any more medication. I'm no scientologist (thank earth), but I think that nowadays it's just a huge money-making scheme and now any imperfection is a disorder you have to buy medication for.

I take Concerta (same stuff as Ritalin) and Paxil and neither affect my sense of reality. The former just makes it harder for sensory things and OCD-type obsessive thoughts to distract me and the latter makes me less anxious and makes it easier for me to suppress obsessive thoughts.

I was put on some various stuff as a teenager, including something for OCD. All of it either had no effect at all, or else the reverse effect (like knocking my out and making my depressed for something that was supposed to treat depression).

Most notable was Wellbutrin, which certainly changed my "reality" -- first I was manic, and happy. Then I started hallucinating, seeing a alien/reptilian-ish transparent face everywhere that spoke in a weird, static-y garbled language, and also seeing shadowy figures standing around me when looking at my reflection. Which of course came with extreme paranoia and panic attacks and a brief hospitalization.
(Then I was put on Seroquel which eased the anxiety and made me sleepy. And cymbalta, which I was already on for a while but didn't really do anything.)
Anyway, yeah, I quit all of it and my reality returned to normal.

yes. i became someone who i wasnt, i felt like a tired (even more than usual) bag of wet sand

A lot of meds made my head and connection to the world feel murky and give me less sense of reality. One med made me manic or something similar, which by definition goes out of touch with reality. I had been reading a lot of strange books at the time and I started thinking they were real. And, now looking at previous posts, yep, it was Wellbutrin. Felt on top of the world, like nobody could hurt me, and like I had created the world or something. I've talked to other people with the same problem on it.