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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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  • My experience with alcohol seems to have been a bit different from that described in several of these posts. Yes, I get the initial loss of anxiety and increase in confidence. But this rapidly gives way (usually by a second glass of wine) to an increasing sense of alienation and a tendency to slip into a shutdown.

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  • My experience with alcohol seems to have been a bit different from that described in several of these posts. Yes, I get the initial loss of anxiety and increase in confidence. But this rapidly gives way (usually by a second glass of wine) to an increasing sense of alienation and a tendency to slip into a shutdown.

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