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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 found that [removed by mod] gummies - the oil tastes foul - help take the edge off anxiety in stressful social situations. No known health downsides.

  • in reply to Martin

    Reminder rule 6 please do not offer medial advice

  • in reply to Suzanne Mod

    About 80+% of autistic people suffer from appreciable levels of anxiety. Alcohol has definite health risks. I was stating what helps me, I was not saying to anyone that they should do the same. A semantic qualification, but cogent. The gummies I described as helping me in stressful situations are classed and sold as a dietary supplement, not a medication.

    I think that the lived experience of autistic people is highly relevant to other autistic people and health advice/coping with life advice is not the same as medical advice. If it were, then the many people on this site who have advocated for someone else getting an assessment for ASD would have given 'medical advice'.

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  • in reply to Suzanne Mod

    About 80+% of autistic people suffer from appreciable levels of anxiety. Alcohol has definite health risks. I was stating what helps me, I was not saying to anyone that they should do the same. A semantic qualification, but cogent. The gummies I described as helping me in stressful situations are classed and sold as a dietary supplement, not a medication.

    I think that the lived experience of autistic people is highly relevant to other autistic people and health advice/coping with life advice is not the same as medical advice. If it were, then the many people on this site who have advocated for someone else getting an assessment for ASD would have given 'medical advice'.

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