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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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  • When I was a teenager I used to drink quite a bit and then went off it. In my thirties I was in a relationship and the whole social scene was very pub based and I found I was feeling pressured into drinking more than I wanted too. Whilst at times it made me feel more "normal" I started to find it brought my autism out more strongly, this was way before diagnosis or even any real awareness of autism in adults or women, I think I was holding it all in and when I drank and my inhibitions got lowered, all my autistic traits came out. I'd also torture myself about what I might and said or done that might be wrong in some way and hangovers started lasting longer and longer and I decided it was a waste of time, money and energy.

    Then I started drinking alone, some wine or a glass of single malt whisky, I liked drinking alone, I was in control and had no social pressure to drink more than I wanted. Then menopause happened and alcohol stated giving me monsterous hot flushes and made me sick, I remember sitting in my parents backgarden one xmas afternoon stripped right down to my vest because I was so hot after 1 glass of champagne, that was when I knew I couldn't drink anymore.

    I don't really drink at all now, I had a couple of sips of wine or whisky this xmas and it was OK, before this year I'd be drunk on a liquer chocolate and feeling to hot. But I don't feel any need or pull to drink. Although it's killed any social life I had, people my age are really bad about wanting people to drink alcohol and really insulting when you say no thanks, not only that drunk people are boring and there's not much choice of non alcoholic drinks.

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  • When I was a teenager I used to drink quite a bit and then went off it. In my thirties I was in a relationship and the whole social scene was very pub based and I found I was feeling pressured into drinking more than I wanted too. Whilst at times it made me feel more "normal" I started to find it brought my autism out more strongly, this was way before diagnosis or even any real awareness of autism in adults or women, I think I was holding it all in and when I drank and my inhibitions got lowered, all my autistic traits came out. I'd also torture myself about what I might and said or done that might be wrong in some way and hangovers started lasting longer and longer and I decided it was a waste of time, money and energy.

    Then I started drinking alone, some wine or a glass of single malt whisky, I liked drinking alone, I was in control and had no social pressure to drink more than I wanted. Then menopause happened and alcohol stated giving me monsterous hot flushes and made me sick, I remember sitting in my parents backgarden one xmas afternoon stripped right down to my vest because I was so hot after 1 glass of champagne, that was when I knew I couldn't drink anymore.

    I don't really drink at all now, I had a couple of sips of wine or whisky this xmas and it was OK, before this year I'd be drunk on a liquer chocolate and feeling to hot. But I don't feel any need or pull to drink. Although it's killed any social life I had, people my age are really bad about wanting people to drink alcohol and really insulting when you say no thanks, not only that drunk people are boring and there's not much choice of non alcoholic drinks.

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