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Aspergers and Alcohol

Hawthorn

I have introduced myself recently and given an overview of where I am up to with things, however I also have a different subject that I would like to share...

I am an adult male aged 40, with Aspergers.

I have never been a heavy drinker (mainly due to suffering horrific hangovers) however i have until recently been a very regular light drinker - normal week would be two cans of average lager (4%) most nights.

I have stopped drinking altogether, which has been fine and to be honest apart from the odd exception i do not really miss it at all.

I am however sleeping better, and generally feeling in a better state of mind about my whole life. I have no intention of returning to alcohol, and I would love to hear of any other experiences out there.

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  • There's a book around (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008), by Matthew Tinsley and Sarah Hendrickx, entitled Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol - Drinking to Cope?

    I drank very little through my early twenties, on some sort of morality, but got more into it in my late 20s early 30s. I developed hiatus hernia problems, and one possible cause identified was alcohol so I gave it up again, and for years drank mineral water and occasionally low alcohol lager (though it gives me wind). Latterly I've broadened out more but will go weeks without drinking and if I do its very much in moderation.

    However I'm not very socially active and would be drinking on my own, more often than not, if I did. I will sometimes go into a pub for a half of bitter and a bottle of sparling mineral water, and sup them both at the same time.

    I've never smoked.

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  • There's a book around (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008), by Matthew Tinsley and Sarah Hendrickx, entitled Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol - Drinking to Cope?

    I drank very little through my early twenties, on some sort of morality, but got more into it in my late 20s early 30s. I developed hiatus hernia problems, and one possible cause identified was alcohol so I gave it up again, and for years drank mineral water and occasionally low alcohol lager (though it gives me wind). Latterly I've broadened out more but will go weeks without drinking and if I do its very much in moderation.

    However I'm not very socially active and would be drinking on my own, more often than not, if I did. I will sometimes go into a pub for a half of bitter and a bottle of sparling mineral water, and sup them both at the same time.

    I've never smoked.

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