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21 Nov 2011, 6:46 pm

I think they are more Aspie when they are stoned. Or tripping.

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21 Nov 2011, 9:45 pm

When I drink enough to lose my primary wall of inhibition (about 3 pints of beer in 1-2 hours), I monologue longer and louder and much faster. I stim more too. My thought patterns are essentially the same but I'm less anxious about expressing them. It most certainly does not make me "more NT" in any way other than social inhibition.



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24 Nov 2011, 12:39 pm

MrXxx wrote:

Some become more withdrawn, some more boisterous, some more violent, some funnier (but only if I'm drunk myself), etc. In general, certain personality traits that are already there become more enhanced. The more a person drinks, the more negative (from my own sober point of view) and pronounced certain traits become. If I'm drinking too, the more acceptable these pronounced traits are.


This is fun stuff. If a culture believes alcohol makes them agressive and sexually uninhibited, they get agressive and sexually uninhibited on placebos.
The experiments show that when people think they are drinking alcohol, they behave according to their cultural beliefs about the behavioural effects of alcohol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317