Are benzo's an Aspie's wonder drug?

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I would like to read it, though the link doesn't seem to work for me

I know benzos benzos may seem like a godsend right now, but take them long enough, tolerance sets in and you will get addicted!

Please thread very carefully and familiarize yourself with benzo PAWS, a very possible outcome of prolonged benzo use.

I'm not allowed to post links yet, but if you do a search for benzo withdrawal syndrome, there is plenty of info on wikipedia.

also benzobuddies.org forum is good place for personal experiences.

I've been through benzo withdrawal 5 times in the past 7 years. It's pure hell to go through, I'd not wish it on my worst enemy. And that is not the worst part. The worst part is that on top of the WD symptoms all of the original ASD symptoms have reappeared again. I'm currently 2 months clean from benzos and most of my WD symptoms are gone. I still have some tensions in my body and never ending ringing in my ears. That's not really concerning me anymore, I know it will pass with time. The real struggle is re-learning to live with ASD. It's like I went through a serious downgrade. What was easy before is now impenetrably hard. All the self confidence I had built up with benzos is gone. So is my memory. It used to be very good before, but now I'm having hard time even remembering what I had done earlier today. I don't have a social life because I can't really manage conversations longer than few exchanges. It's like I went through a serious downgrade and I'm now borderline ret*d. It is really hard to accept being like this when I have been so much more before. It's unfair to get the taste of what life could be like and then taken it away. There must be some better way to improve our function that is not so unhealthy.

Thanks for all the info, everybody. (i didn't start the thread but learned a lot from it.) I was on klonipin for a time but had the increasing tolerance to it, which i hated. I couldn't see upping the dose continually, so i stopped it. It dulled my anxiety but had the unfortunate side effect of (sorry to be gross) not letting me empty my bladder. Led to bladder infections which my family dr insisted could not be from the klonipin. (Funny how the bladder issues resolved when i stopped the klonipin if they were not related...) After doing some reading online, i found that others also had the same complaint. I also seem to react to meds in general differently than other ppl--have had many times when a dr will say "that side effect couldn't be from such-and-such med" but for me it seems to be connected. I still have a lot to learn about aspergers and meds.

I would not say the klonipin was a wonder drug for me. It got me through some really rough spots but was not a good long term choice. And SSRI's helped with social anxiety but made me feel emotionally numb--for example, i could not cry at the death of the mother of one of our close friends, a dear lady who was like an aunt to my hubby and me. She was a wonderful lady and sadly missed but i could not feel pain at the time. I hated that--felt like i should be able to shed tears for her. My reactions to emotional things are often atypical but without meds i do have feelings (many times painfully intense). I eventually stopped all my meds except for a small dose of buspar to take the edge off the anxiety when needed. It is not a real strong drug but i do better when i learn to function with my aspie symptoms in spite of difficulty, than when i numb everything. Drugs can't last forever, and this is the hand i have been dealt. I do my best to live with it as functionally as possible.