Tamaya wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
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What is it about so many alcohol users, the way they want to drag everybody into their game?
Being a total non-drinker makes me more isolated than AS or ADHD does. If I drank alcohol I know I'd have a lot more friends. I've noticed a pattern - Aspies who went down the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" road have more friends than the shut-in sort like me. I envy Aspies who aren't crippled by Emetophobia. It's more disabling than it sounds.
I'm not especially scared of being sick (though I definitely don't like it), but I've noticed that decadence in general seems like a badge of honour among a lot of people in a lot of places, though I think for most of them it's a young-ish person's game that tends to get less as time goes by. I guess they start to notice the bad health effects and become to old to deal with it.
With a bit of luck you'll be accepted more as you (and the people around you) get older and more "wholesome."
I used to think I'd become quite prudish, but the old rural Arkansans I'm currently hob-nobbing with make me look feel like a decadent teenager. I have to be careful with the music I perform for them because some of it is too dark for their liking, though I can play the same songs in urban Leicester and nobody bats an eyelid. I suppose the great thing about the world is that it's so different from one place to another that there must be an ideal Goldilocks zone for every type.