r/PrettyLittleLiars • u/FlavorfulOpinions • 9h ago
Question❔ Spencer’s Adderall Addiction
So Spencer’s Adderall addiction is something I can never shake from the show. Does anyone feel it was immensely over dramatic? I am definitely open to being wrong but would want to understand why it wasn’t or was overly dramatic from other perspectives.
It seemed like right away she was regularly taking extra which I don’t buy in to that much because after just starting up the medication I would think she’d already be plenty wired and not adjusted to the medication at all so unless she had a particularly low response I think it would already be pretty strong for her not something she’d so suddenly be taking extra doses of. (I know some people may be more prone to do that though and Spencer does show some addictive traits for sure.
But would she really be waking up at places she didn’t go to bed at? That’s gotta be pretty rare.
Her dream in that black and white episode was also pretty bizarre.
They wrote her to be so intense during that time which I also find hard to believe.
How long was she even taking them for when she went back on them also? (since we know she had been on them that summer Allison went missing) I could be wrong but it seems she wasn’t on them long at all for her to have gone to rehab and had what seemed like such strong withdrawal after like she seemed exhausted, but your brain and natural baseline from my understanding would not change that quickly in the short span she was even taking the medication? I could be wrong.
& since she wasn’t on them very long at all as far as I can tell wouldn’t her not getting enough sleep not be such a huge factor making her act so intense and erratic as she wouldn’t have been sleep deprived for that long? She was sleeping some.
Can anyone offer their opinion on the whole thing and how realistic or unrealistic they think it was? I just think it was really overdramatic for the plot but I’ve always wondered how realistic it could have actually been or if that’s also still extremely unlikely.