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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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  • Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.  You've just been diagnosed so need plenty of time to research and process.  So much will come up for you and awareness of what you have used to date to suppress your anxiety and alienation pre-diagnosis is just one of them.  Now you are aware that all that tension and pressure, soothing traits, control issues and more are rooted in a brain that works harder than most to understand and assimilate the social norms in this world that have been created by neurotypical people, that enjoying a little alcohol once a week is low, IMO, in your list of priorities.  Focus on daily ways to bring comfort to yourself in life enhancing ways.  For me that has been a lot of rest, for you it might be patting yourself on the back with a 'good job Marnee, good job'.  Fill yourself with the good stuff so there is less and less room for the sub-optimal.

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  • Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.  You've just been diagnosed so need plenty of time to research and process.  So much will come up for you and awareness of what you have used to date to suppress your anxiety and alienation pre-diagnosis is just one of them.  Now you are aware that all that tension and pressure, soothing traits, control issues and more are rooted in a brain that works harder than most to understand and assimilate the social norms in this world that have been created by neurotypical people, that enjoying a little alcohol once a week is low, IMO, in your list of priorities.  Focus on daily ways to bring comfort to yourself in life enhancing ways.  For me that has been a lot of rest, for you it might be patting yourself on the back with a 'good job Marnee, good job'.  Fill yourself with the good stuff so there is less and less room for the sub-optimal.

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