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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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  • You don't sound too bad  , but if the recovery is getting worse you might want to adjust your intake perhaps to try bring that down if the hangovers are worse (I've heard they get worse with age?)

    I'm not a drinker now, but I did for the first 2 years of uni, and it did help me be social as I just kept telling everyone how wonderful they were and was less inhibited. But I enjoyed dancing more than drinking so after the initial fresher overdoing it, I never drank that much anyway, and tended to sip one drink for most of the night. 

    But then I had a bad incident on a bus journey and alcohol then reminded me of that, and I stopped going out, which meant I lost the friends I'd made in uni as drinking meant more to them. I don't think I was doing well at that point. Thankfully I'd met my husband-to-be the year before, and he's never been that big on going out (he had a hearing problem so he found noisy places difficult for that), so when I moved in with him a few years later (we were long distance for a couple of years), going out wasn't that big for us. I did a small amount of social going out when I started working, but even by my mid-20's board game night at peoples houses was the main event of the week. Plus I had better things to spend that money on like paying for my little sister's driving lessons. And then we started a family and I stopped drinking entirely for about a decade.

    Nowadays I do have a glass of wine at Christmas and special occasions, but that's it really, it seems a waste as we only manage half a bottle between us even then. Even my husband says he doesn't want to drink anymore, but he was only still having some while playing Dnd online with work friends which they don't really do anymore.

    It's funny we used to have a drinks and board games cabinet, but slowly the drinks got pushed out in favour of board games till there aren't any any more!

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  • You don't sound too bad  , but if the recovery is getting worse you might want to adjust your intake perhaps to try bring that down if the hangovers are worse (I've heard they get worse with age?)

    I'm not a drinker now, but I did for the first 2 years of uni, and it did help me be social as I just kept telling everyone how wonderful they were and was less inhibited. But I enjoyed dancing more than drinking so after the initial fresher overdoing it, I never drank that much anyway, and tended to sip one drink for most of the night. 

    But then I had a bad incident on a bus journey and alcohol then reminded me of that, and I stopped going out, which meant I lost the friends I'd made in uni as drinking meant more to them. I don't think I was doing well at that point. Thankfully I'd met my husband-to-be the year before, and he's never been that big on going out (he had a hearing problem so he found noisy places difficult for that), so when I moved in with him a few years later (we were long distance for a couple of years), going out wasn't that big for us. I did a small amount of social going out when I started working, but even by my mid-20's board game night at peoples houses was the main event of the week. Plus I had better things to spend that money on like paying for my little sister's driving lessons. And then we started a family and I stopped drinking entirely for about a decade.

    Nowadays I do have a glass of wine at Christmas and special occasions, but that's it really, it seems a waste as we only manage half a bottle between us even then. Even my husband says he doesn't want to drink anymore, but he was only still having some while playing Dnd online with work friends which they don't really do anymore.

    It's funny we used to have a drinks and board games cabinet, but slowly the drinks got pushed out in favour of board games till there aren't any any more!

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