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Drinking and Autism

Marnee101

Hi all,

Just wanted your views on drinking alcohol and autism.

  • Since my early twenties, I found drinking just eliminates my autism and anxiety.
  • I become the person I want to be, confident, can make friends easy, dance away, no shyness.
  • I always drink in moderation, until I reach that happy place.
  • Usually I feel the need to escape in to that euphoric state once a week, to escape stresses of the week.
  • I feel like I don’t need to mask.
  • But now late 30’s the recovery is too much.

I need to try new things to replace this habit. But as I do it in moderation, once a week is that bad? It’s day 5 post diagnosis.

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  • Yes. I have also found alcohol to be very freeing and helpful - but of course it has plenty of downsides. I started drinking as a teenager and found that it helped reduce my anxiety and social awkwardness. And I suppose I’ve been leaning on it ever since really. Thankfully my body can’t really cope with vast amounts of alcohol - so after about 2 glasses of wine I sort of have to stop or I feel ill. Having said that I’ve spent many years of my life having a drink pretty much every evening and that probably not been great for my health. I find that it not only relaxes me - it also cheers me up - which is odd as apparently alcohol is a depressive. One of my favourite things about it is that it hugely eases my current worries - albeit just for a few hours at most. I ‘care less’ about things when I’ve had a drink, but also become more sociable and loving. It’s helped me, but I can only guess that physical health wise it may well have harmed me. Over the last year I’ve reduced it a bit so I don’t have a drink every evening - now it’s probably three evenings a week. I just have one of those mini bottles of Prosecco. 

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  • Yes. I have also found alcohol to be very freeing and helpful - but of course it has plenty of downsides. I started drinking as a teenager and found that it helped reduce my anxiety and social awkwardness. And I suppose I’ve been leaning on it ever since really. Thankfully my body can’t really cope with vast amounts of alcohol - so after about 2 glasses of wine I sort of have to stop or I feel ill. Having said that I’ve spent many years of my life having a drink pretty much every evening and that probably not been great for my health. I find that it not only relaxes me - it also cheers me up - which is odd as apparently alcohol is a depressive. One of my favourite things about it is that it hugely eases my current worries - albeit just for a few hours at most. I ‘care less’ about things when I’ve had a drink, but also become more sociable and loving. It’s helped me, but I can only guess that physical health wise it may well have harmed me. Over the last year I’ve reduced it a bit so I don’t have a drink every evening - now it’s probably three evenings a week. I just have one of those mini bottles of Prosecco. 

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