Alcohol

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. 

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. 

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.