Do you feel more social when you drink?

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Sorry if someone has posted about this before.
When drinking I can stand being around people, I feel like I do better socializing. Just wondering if anyone else feels this way.

Not really. The likely possibility that I have AS has given me a new model on my social abilities, and this model leads me to believe that I liked to drink around people to relieve anxiety and for the illusion that it increases my social abilities, but now I realize that it just impairs me more and makes me seem more "ret*d". Either way, being around people makes me tired and drinking too much alcohol probably isn't good for my health, and so I've cut back on both, although I won't quit altogether.

I don't think alcohol necessarily made me socialize better - as much as it sort of brought everyone down to the same level. Even NTs are much less concerned with subtle signals when they're toasted. Beer didn't so much make me more social, it made talking easier and less self-conscious, but that may only have caused me to go on more frequent lectures about pet subjects. Whiskey and hard liquors did (sometimes) make me waaaay too talkative and I'd blather on endlessly and make a fool of myself until someone was forced to embarrass me by asking me to STFU.

Now, it's a moot point. Like George Thorogood, I drink alone, with nobody else, 'cause when I drink alone I prefer to be by myself.

I don't drink, anymore. All I do when I drink, is get myself really drunk, and than I act really stupid. There are better ways for me to deal with my emotions, than with beer and liquor. Crying helps.

after the first shot/glass, I tend to be much more social, and since im not hammered enough, i dont do stupid s**t much at all.

Normally I have so much going on behind what is actually happening that I feel pretty insecure. I am always more social when I'm at work because there is a common interest and conversation topic ( it doesn't hurt that I'm great at my job so I Know what I'm saying is cool). When I'm out in the world, not so much. I'm a cute, smart girl with a great job, but for some reason I can't actually connect with casual friends w/o having a couple drinks. That's just me though.

Booze does help but it tends to let my aspie self shine as I cant shut up about things and topics that are importian to me and pretty much only me. However I am more "easy going". However things go even more smooth if I am smoking herb. But herb messes with my SNRI's so I cant part take for to long.

One or two glasses of wine help me relax and on such occasions people seem to find me more approachable and friendly. I never drink more than this in a public place as I tend to get agitated and intense.

Drinks definitely make me feel more social. They also make me less mature. Not immature in the sense that I do stupid stuff, but immature that I start baby talk and singing obnoxiously. Drinking also helps me speak French and Spanish, I've noticed.