drinking and AS

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Hrm. Obviously on this one I'm an oddball.

I hate drinking.

I hate the culture that makes people think getting drunk is cool, when actually it means letting your guard down, making yourself more vulnerable and putting yourself greatly at risk of public humiliation. Plus binge drinking makes you physically ill short term and long term.

To me it's a total waste of time. Having too much to drink doesn't make you less Aspie, it just makes you less prepared for a bad situation. If we're already naive and unable to read other people's reactions properly, we're even more likely to get hurt drunk.

If being completely wrecked is being more NT, thank God I'm not NT :S

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There is a very good chance I already replied to this post, very good chance. But I'm just gonna say what I probably said before. Drinking is the s**t, and it goes great with AS. It kills anxiety, for the most part. I can enjoy any situation drunk as long as I like the people or atmosphere. And the burn in your stomach is a reminder that life, can be heartwarming and cozy at times. Lets not forget that even with all the f*****g deushebags in the world, we can still get s**t faced and tell those sons of b*****s to make like ostriches and stick their head back up their ass. Many people say that after you turn 21, the fun of getting drunk goes away, I have a feeling that won't be the case for me.

drinking is great, it calms my nerves gets rid of all my anxiousness/neverousness all my worries fly out the window.it gives one hell of a confidence boast.

only thing is my relationship with my GF has suffered severly becuase of this it would have been 3 years this september, if i hadnt gone and chucked it all away. to many times have i been insanely drunk and cheated,now shes lost and I don't think thigns will ever be the same again.so yeah being drunk is great but don't screw over the people close to you.

by the way im Jon new around here didnt know such places exhisted!

I act too social and end up saying a lot of things I regret.

But it kills my anxiety and I actually feel normal when I drink.

When I'm stoned I just get even more paranoid.

Well it's now been a month since I got back on the piss (working in a pub will do that to you), but I still haven't got drunk yet. Hoping to keep it that way. I'm insane enough when I'm sober.

PS - Welcome aboard Jont

Alcohol makes me depressed, which isn't surprising considering it's a depressant. So I don't drink it, even though it does lower my social anxiety. I've done some dumb things in the past while drunk, mostly having to do with the effect it has on my mood.

Booze is almost the only thing I've tried that realy kills the anxiety for me. Infact after quite a bit I feel almost normal . Here's the things that work for me from weakest to strongest:
Chamomile Tea
Decaffinated tea - the theanine increases GABA and would be perfect in raw form.
Valerian - good but causes an eerie feeling and nightmares.
Alcohol - unfortunately for my liver I require quite a bit before it starts to work.

Because it's not feasable to drink tea every 10 minutes all day and because of the obvious side effects of alcohol I'm not satisfied with any of these.

Nevertheless, I quite enjoy a bottle of wine or brandy while watching late TV on a weekend. Once drunk I write lyrics and poetry that probably only I will ever see. On the rare occasion that I hit the clubs, someone always says "you need to drink more, we'll get you talking". Sometimes it works but NO amount of alcohol ever allows me to dance.

Does anyone know a viable alternative to alcohol that actually works, preferably for longer than an hour or two? I've never had valium or been stoned, but strictly theoretically, are there better alternatives than alcohol?

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I like the taste of beer (and whisky), but I have been drunk a single time and did not enjoy the experience. That's probably a good thing since my family has a genetic predisposition to alcoholism.

I guess it helps that I didn't drink at all through the worst periods of my depression (and also waited until I was nearly 25... about a month after "the worst periods of my depression" (numb acceptance) finally ended)



Unfortunately it doesn't exactly operate like "liquid courage" for me; sometimes I become even more quiet when drinking.

I am amazed that drinking/drugging is not more prevalent and more of a problem in the AS community. So many dealing w/ AS appear to be struggling, and/or undiagnosed and without medications that may help. Alcohol and drugs would be one step to self-medicate. (But then, an Aspie may logically weigh the consequences first).

Is drinking/drugging a big problem in the AS community? And if so, I wonder why we don't hear more about it.

SheDevil
(an NT on a discovery mission....trying to understand a friend)