I have problem with alcohol. l drink and when I start I can’t stop, and I get too drunk.It helps me with my anxiety and stops me worrying about bad things that might happen. It helps me lot with my life. I need to look at other solutions. If anything else has helped please advise. I really don’t want to be an alcoholic.
I'll never understand how canabis is illegal, but booze is legal. Well I know why, tax. The government has no morals really.
But I'd say, it's one of the biggest flaws in contemporary culture.
I'd recommend investing time in yourself. Meditation will calm you in ways that booze only appears to.
Booze is a bad road to take. Follow a different path, it's in your hands to try another road
What do you mean?
Plus, I now appear to be completely deluded because the spam has been completely removed. Ah well.....you lot know of my madness anyway.
Worked all night.......can you tell?!
NAS79606 is the OP!
Do you mean NAS85729??
Hi Number, thanks for letting me know mate. I should have noticed. I'll try to be more alert next time.
Thanks for reporting it as well. 
Sorry Matt, I'm pretty certain that NAS79606 is just a spam bot. I reported it earlier.....it's the Chinese embedded link in a "first post" that gives it away.
I have problem with alcohol
The first step to recovery is recognising there is a problem, so well done you're already on the right path to a better place.
I need to look at other solutions.
There might be lists you can check online? Other people in the same boat will have different solutions.
A lot of people chew gum when they want a drink. Like people trying to quit smoking.
I do a lot of exercise. It's good for the body and it is a good distraction.
Good catch!
Spam Alert.
I think you are right - I certainly know that I have been able to "swap-out" bad for good sometimes. It is worth striving for - I'm often battling myself!
Given the title of this thread, and the fact we are at NAS, I think my current alcohol status is kinda noteworthy.
I have always had a very strange relationship with alcohol and have experienced prolonged periods of volume abuse, interspersed with periods of middle class heavy drinking and sprinkled with the odd month (every year or so) when I prove to myself that I can be totally sober if I want to. My form of abuse is always solitary and hidden - damaging just myself* to numb a pain that I couldn't understand.
I decided to embark on a prolonged period of sobriety about 9 weeks ago. I am currently 9 weeks sober.
This is the first time that I have been sober and aware of my autistic anxiety - this is the pain that I had needed to numb.......I think......early days.......but feel pretty triumphant......and most importantly - CALM !!
I believe that, had I known that I was autistic earlier, I would not have dallianced with alcohol abuse. Not knowing what is wrong with your head and your feelings will drive many to booze, but with my selection of autistic traits, my stumble was a virtual certainty.
The things that I am learning and sharing in this space are helping me massively with my current bout of extended sobriety. Thanks to everyone - even the Spam bot that re-booted this tread,
It's really sorta OK being very sober all the time - fascinating is probably a more apt word. Who knew we were all this f**ked up all the time !!
With thanks to everyone out there who have, and continue, to help me. You do me good.
I drank heavily until I was around 25, mainly binge type drinking that could last up to a week, more often 2 or 3 days. A lot of this was due to my previous childhood childhood experiences, ongoing health related issues. When I drank the pain would go away, it also helped with social anxiety within pubs when having to deal with people, although I didn't realise this was autism at the time. Anyway when I was 25 I met my wife to be, decided to calm my drinking down, which helped. I'm 54 now & only drink on occasional basis & not heavily, don't want or need to now.
Looking back drinking only numbed my pain for a short time & I actually felt a lot worse for doing so long term, but it took me a while to realise.
There's only you that can do something about it when you feel that you are ready, there's plenty of help out there if you feel you need to take it.
No magic answers, hun. But had to say 'well done you' for recognising the potential problem and wanting to head it off at the pass. That might well mean you succeed.
I'm just divorcing a man I in fact love with all my heart, but is lost to me in the booze. Real boozers can never see it's an issue and lie. You ain't there yet. You're honest.
Only tip I can think of comes from an interview with Alice Cooper (if you are old enough to know who he is). He said if you have an addictive personality (and he did have a booze problem at one time), you have to replace your harmful addictions with harmless ones. These days he gets twitchy with out a round of golf.
Hey, we're Auristic, right? We are good as good at harmless addictions as the harmful ones.
Don't know if this helps, but I find when "social drinking" for me the optimum effect is achieved at the cost of increased thirst, causing me to enter a positive feedback situation...
I found that my enjoyment of the effects of alcohol was immensely improved by switching to a non alcoholic drink when I get "thirsty".
Is that not helpful? It was a game changer for me...
Don't leave us hanging........are you talking about AA ?
If I start drinking I cannot guarantee how much I will drink.
i might make a plan but my particular relationship with alcohol means if I start I don’t have an off-switch after a ‘pre-decided’ amount.
I could never ever feel satisfied with just one. I stopped with a sense of loss that I would not keep drinking. It always seemed ideal to drink more than what medical professionals and other normal drinkers considered healthy amounts.
I found a solution fifteen years ago.
I have not drunk alcohol since because that solution is immensely powerful, more powerful than me on my own.
Don't know if this helps, but I find when "social drinking" for me the optimum effect is achieved at the cost of increased thirst, causing me to enter a positive feedback situation...
I found that my enjoyment of the effects of alcohol was immensely improved by switching to a non alcoholic drink when I get "thirsty".
OTOH, I found out that I'm wired to enjoy a reefer much more than a glass of spirits so drinking is something I ended up doing rarely and social drinking super rarely.
For me, alcohol and cocaine both impart a false sense of adequacy & competence, that wears off too quickly. I remember on one of the few times I did Coke, walking around Glastonbury Fayre enjoying a strong sense of smug superiority, and then suddenly realising how utterly fake it was.
And as a more daring kind of motorcyclist I decided I literally could not live with the effects of alcohol.. As it happened, I found I could ride my bike successfully, even when I was too drunk to stand up straight, but I only did that ONCE... The following day, aspects of the ride came back to me and I realised we'd (yes there was someone's equally drunk daughter on the back) just had several NDE's in a row...
