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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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  • I suppose my story is the cautionary tale, I started drinking at about 16 years old, I also found it made me more normal, anxiety was much less and I could be more like everyone else. I soon found that I couldn’t have one drink, I would normally drink until I passed out. This continued for about 40 years, I was easily drinking 100 units per week, normally much more.

    For 54 years I never knew I am autistic and knew nothing about autism, It wasn’t until I realised I’m autistic that I stopped, I had a health scare and knew it had to stop.

    The alcohol had stopped helping anxiety and social awareness, it was fuelling it. I’m more content finally knowing why I’m different, I use small alterations in life to make situations easier. I’m now just over 2 years alcoholic free and starting to enjoy life a bit more. I’ve stopped trying to cure my autism. 

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  • I suppose my story is the cautionary tale, I started drinking at about 16 years old, I also found it made me more normal, anxiety was much less and I could be more like everyone else. I soon found that I couldn’t have one drink, I would normally drink until I passed out. This continued for about 40 years, I was easily drinking 100 units per week, normally much more.

    For 54 years I never knew I am autistic and knew nothing about autism, It wasn’t until I realised I’m autistic that I stopped, I had a health scare and knew it had to stop.

    The alcohol had stopped helping anxiety and social awareness, it was fuelling it. I’m more content finally knowing why I’m different, I use small alterations in life to make situations easier. I’m now just over 2 years alcoholic free and starting to enjoy life a bit more. I’ve stopped trying to cure my autism. 

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