Would you do it or not?

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I am answering this question understanding that the OP sets this up as a hypothetical question:

"If alcohol was good for you..."---although we may think differently about if it is good for us or not (based on research), the OP asks it in a hypothetical way.

My answer: No---I would not touch it. I do not want any of my Asperger's symptoms/traits/etc. subdued or removed. I am satisfied with who I am. Although there are challenges within all of us that we try to deal with, I accept Asperger's with its complete package of symptoms/traits. And I have no desire to socialize. I do enjoy my family, and I enjoy my special intense interests.

No definetly not, I can say that now I know I can fix my faults by working on them.

I do use Bachs herbal remedy a lot instead.

I worked in a shop a long time ago, on a check out, I was obviously useless and felt very very uncomfortable so I did often go in with a bit of vodka in my bottle of lemonade because I thought it might help me make small talk and feel less awkward. It probably just made me care less about failing to make small talk.

Yes, it's definitely not effective in the long run.
The more you drink alcohol, the more it becomes tolerated - so you need to drink even more to get the same effect.
Too easy to end up in really deep trouble: AS and a broken liver.

YES that is a very good point actually when i am drunk i act more ecentric and goofy and my AS symptoms are probably a amplified to people around me. when i am very drunk and other people are not so drunk they usually ignore me and don't talk to me because of my behaviour or i even piss them off. although that said when other people are just as drunk as me it is not so much of a problem.

i am a happy drunk so its no so bad though. my borhter on the other hand is a violent drunk since he got into a fight and was kinda beaten up in a nightclub a month ago.

It's a bit of a problem side-effect with alcohol - someone can feel great internally and think they're doing so much better but that's rarely reflected externally, where other people can see they're just a loud drunken idiot. A couple of my (NT) nephews are rather like this.

I wouldn't. Why would I want to?

when you are drunk you will make more mistakes in how you act than when sober, yet the mistakes that you make will bother you less. If the people around you are drunk they will notice less of the mistakes that you make. If you are drunk around sober people, you usually just making a fool of your self.

Constantly being drunk is not a solution to anything, just because you can't remember the problems you have, doesn’t mean they are gone. It's not strictly bad/evil though either. I think you just have to be very clear about what it gives you and what you loose.

This is my favourite summary of the topic:



It is about programming skill, yet i think the same is true about conversation ability as well.

Excellent cartoon. 'Being pissed' in a nutshell.

Same here lol
That's why I don't drink anything more than a glass of wine every now and then

So you think the only problems are social deficiencies? Curious.