What drinks do you drink?

April 5 months ago

My drink diet is so unhealthy.

I don't drink alcohol– I don’t like the taste –but regular drinks for me are coca cola like between 6-8 cans a day and that's causing my digestion to go through regular hell. I do drink milkshakes sometimes and squash but I'm not a huge fan of the taste, so back to the cola I go.

I've tried tea and coffee as well but I don't like either. I used to drink fruit shoots a lot but that was when I was little. Since I was in my teens I have drank mostly coca cola, occasionally I'll have a hot chocolate but not often.

My drinking has always been a bit like this. Flip side of the coin is I don't drink enough of anything and end up dehydrated, normally during summer though.

What about you guys?

What do you like drinking?

Parents

Emmalephant 5 months ago

I mostly drink water (we have very tasty tap water here) and tea (hot and cold). Rarely a coffee, because I don’t really like the taste of black coffee so I have to add a lot of milk and also because I can’t really handle caffeine as good. It makes me tired for some weird reason (does anybody know something about that?). Black tea is fine though, the teaine (I know it’s actually just caffeine) comes in lower concentration and has less caffeinating abilities because of that so it doesn’t leave me crashed. But I still do not drink enough.

My sister uses some sugar-free syrups. Maybe it’s worth a try for you? That amount of carbonic and citric acid can really mess with the gastric mucosa.

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Emmalephant 5 months ago

I mostly drink water (we have very tasty tap water here) and tea (hot and cold). Rarely a coffee, because I don’t really like the taste of black coffee so I have to add a lot of milk and also because I can’t really handle caffeine as good. It makes me tired for some weird reason (does anybody know something about that?). Black tea is fine though, the teaine (I know it’s actually just caffeine) comes in lower concentration and has less caffeinating abilities because of that so it doesn’t leave me crashed. But I still do not drink enough.

My sister uses some sugar-free syrups. Maybe it’s worth a try for you? That amount of carbonic and citric acid can really mess with the gastric mucosa.

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orangutan 5 months ago in reply to Emmalephant

I have the same thing with caffeine making me tired. I discovered it when trying pre-workout drinks before the gym, and they just made me super tired so I've only tried caffeine on a few occasions.

From what research I could find, the topic isn't well-studied. However, it seems to be that it isn't necessarily autism itself that means caffeine has a different impact on us, but rather that it comes down to the neurological differences that may come alongside autism e.g. variations in brain structure.

Here are a few studies on the dopamine and serotonin systems and how they can be affected by ASD, if you are really interested: Frontiers | Dopamine in Autism Spectrum Disorders—Focus on D2/D3 Partial Agonists and Their Possible Use in Treatment
Dopamine's Role in Autism Explained
Autism and Serotonin: Unraveling the Connection