Talk:Tweaking (behavior)

message: The article is misleading - tweaking is a term used to describe the final stage of the effects of drugs like meth, speed and others. After the initial rush, then the prolonged high, the "come-down" is the tweaking, where users become uncomfortable, twitchy and cannot sleep. Users often try to combat tweaking with alcohol or heroin. - Berty
I spoke with a friend of mine who's a Substance Abuse Pre-doctoral and asked him if "Tweaking" or "Tweaker" are terms you actually use in the field, and he said no.I think this page needs to be either merged in to some sort of "Slang" category under Methamphetamine, changed to be more "professional" sounding, labeled as non-professional/slang or removed completely.Thoughts? --kvidell 20:48, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
:Edited the page to reflect it's slang-use. kvidell 21:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
While the "prevention" section seems to have good intentions (I find the suggestion of having a focus to be excellent advice for users of both legal and illegal substances), the rest of the article is extremely derogatory and pejorative. It seems to echo ridiculous pseudoscientific babble straight out of a DARE pamphlet; most of it smells like it started with cautious scientific/medical observations, and then underwent an injection of disgusting cliches and stereotypes. Punding and other psychotic behavior by methamphetamine abusers is serious stuff, and need not be turned into scaremonger-sludge. Not being an expert on the drug, I slapped an NPOV tag on the article and left it be; I hope somebody more qualified than I will come along and give it a dose of unbiased scientific reality. 71.136.50.128 09:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: What's with the bullshit 'two week' => 'tweek' definition?
Tweaker is from the word Tweak. 
Ie if you've been on amphetamines, you'll often start exhibiting very OCD like behaviour, and can't resist 'tweaking' every little thing to 'perfection', whether that's carefully lining up all the jars on a shelf, adjusting the volume controls of music that's playing, or carefully taping, then retaping posters to a wall. A lot of it is quite pointless like the punding examples.
- Anon. Wellington.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.238.36 (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tweaking, Tweaker, is from Tweak 

message: Ok, currently the leading sentence for the article says "Tweaking is a slang term of someone in a state of confusion."
I'd maintain that equating it with 'confusion' is *not* an accurate or standard definition. If you google usages, orlook at the Urban Dictionary, that's not how the term is used -  
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tweaking
I feel uncomfortable about making a bit edit, but from various descriptions of people who are described as 'tweaking or tweakers' are not so much confused, as agitated, and either on stimulants of some sort, or emulating it and intent on making minor 'improvements' to their surroundings. Like if someone has been severely over-caffeinated. Possibly talking too fast, intently, eyes too open, quick jerky motions, and, like the root word, intent on fiddling and 'tweaking' with things. Slightly OCD behaviour, often making very small changes which are barely noticeable as improvements.
So, for example, if someone gets very 'tweaky' about painting something, or programming something, or compiling a playlist of music, they wouldn't be confused, but being over-intent about 'perfecting' it, even if they weren't doing an awful lot, linked with fidgeting a lot, or doing pointless repetitive tasks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.238.36 (talk) 05:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion in the Article