Aspergers and alcohol

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When I was 12 years old my friends broke into a friends dad's liqure cabnet. We poured three inches from like some 20 bottles of alcohol into a punch bowl. It was a brown nasty looking liquid. We each dipped one of his dad's beer stines into the mess we made. I remember drinking it was like take a drink then gag, then yell "bleeck!"or "Nasty!" then drink some more the flavor was something like a cross between paint thinner and hot mess. I remember staggering home then throwing up when I got home only three of us were dumb enough to drink that horrid mess unfortunately I was one of the brave who drank it. My little 10 year old brother had to hold me up when we walked home. He claims I fell over four times we were like only five houses apart.

I did much better with marijuna when I was 13. I founf that smoking weed made me deal with my social anxiety a lot better. Needless to say I spent 13-18 high everyday then once or twice a week until 25. I would probably go back to smoking it if aai had a reliable source in walking distance from me.

Same thing with me. My parents are from West Virginia both of their fathers died from throat cancer from drinking so much moonshine it ate up the lining in their throats. Where my parents lived everyone use to be coal miners if the black lung did not get you the throat cancer from drinking homemade alcohol would. You can see why they moved to Buffalo, NY.

I used to drink quite a bit to relieve social anxiety and depression (yes, I know alcohol is a depressant but it works in the short term). I developed alcoholism and was probably the most miserable I've ever been. The thing about drinking problems is that by the time you realize you have a problem it's already too late. I quit with a stint in rehab and even that has only a 1% success rate. AA did not work for me because I couldn't connect with the other people. As far as alcohol helping symptoms of AS, it loosened my inhibitions so social gaffes were way more frequent. But I'm sure that's true for everyone. I would just say really weird things to people out of the blue.

My father's side of the family they were violent drunks (One of the reasons my father does not drink) so I am a little afraid to drink. I m very big and prone to violent meltdowns I feel I run the risk of really hurting someone over nothing. I sometimes get mad at people for staring at me or for giving me a weird look but I always hold my tongue. If I was drunk off my ass I would probably beat the hell out them. I also have a high pain threshold so I would also run the risk of really hurting myself and not even feel it until its too late.

Me too... and awesome name. "Acacia." I've been planting native sweet acacia (farnesiana) seeds lately.

There seems to be the trend in Australia, particularly here in Melbourne, toward micro-breweries. There is a new market for expensive boutique beers brewed on site in micro-breweries and (for the pleasure of the beer buff) drunk fresh.
This largely took off after I gave up so I'm not familiar with all the local names.

All too common story I'm afraid. Australians, Scandinavians and Russians are perhaps the worst offenders here.

Newcastle brown ale!

I usually like to drink .75 ounce of 80 proof whiskey, rum, vodka, gin. it makes me tired. I drink at bedtime to make me tired. Its only enough to give me a buzz and make me tired. it's moderate drinking. What concerns me is that I have gotten into the habit of doing it every night.

I am 16 and make my mom buy a special sort of red wine for me which of i drink a glas a day.
it's healthy and calms me down at the evening.
if i would drink it all at once i would get really drunk and not be able to stand up.

Your the best person on here I love my ganja too
Seriously marijuana is much safer then alcohol.

I drink quite a bit, but it's not a daily thing for me. Typically just on the weekends and then maybe a glass of wine with dinner once in a while during the week. If I have a social function I have to attend, though, you better believe I'm going to have a drink or two or three to relax and help me cope with my anxiety.

I actually have a low tolerance for alcohol, and I don't like the taste either. the extremely rare times that I do drink it has to be a fruity/sweet drink to cover up the bitterness of the alcohol (like the flavored Smirnoff Ice or cocktails) and I usually only have just one for the night.

With regard to... masking "Aspergerish" traits, the thing where being drunk all the time provides an alternative explanation for things: "He didn't do that, isn't like that because he has Asperger's; he did that, is like that because he's drunk":

If there are "Aspergerish" things about you that endear you to people, the misperception that those things are at all a function of your drinking can diminish their appeal. Harmless but idiosyncratic things about you shouldn't turn off anyone whose company is worth keeping, and so there's no point in trying to explain things like that in terms of drinking either. And the same applies to suppressing such things, if drinking has that effect on you.

People do often behave similarly when sh1tfaced, regardless of their native brain chemistries. That often means similarly boring and/or dumb, but then again, being drunk yourself makes that more tolerable. If that's all right, and you can afford it, go for it. Not long before I quit drinking, I had the "bar test," which was whether whatever was going on at the bar would be good enough to stick around for if I were sober. If not, the thing to do was leave rather than spend money on another drink.

With regard to drowning sorrows, which may or may not have anything to do with Asperger's: if harmless, why not? If there are problems that something can be done about, it's probably better to do that than to try to anesthetize them away.

For me, it wasn't harmless. It used to feel soooo good; drinking was the thing I looked forward to most after work. It also ate up a lot of money and otherwise contributed greatly to the list of sorrows to drown. Even if you never get a DUI or PI and are never caught sleeping in your car, having had sex with people you wouldn't sober can be hard to live down.

I don't drink, but the absolute worst beers around, from what people tell me are Iron City, National Bohemian, Carling Black Label, Schaefer, and Schmidt's. The better beers are Yuengling, and Rolling Rock.

I drink a lot, but only when I start to drink.

I usually go from monday to friday afternoon with no booze at all. but if I drink one that will lead me to the next on and so on lol