Drinking Alchohol

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I drink from time to time at special occasions but I know how not to let the buzz not come. I drink like Wine Coolers, Wine, Mike Hard Lemonaid, White Russian. When I get done drinking for that point I start drinking water to help my body to flush it out and Also I eat food while I drink.

Now I think about it should this topic be in the adult section

Yes it is the young grasshopper ;-)

Right on. It does help "loosen" the social "belt," but if you do rely on it for too long, then quit, your right back to wherever you left off before you started drinking.

@the OP: I noticed you used the term, "the answer" with reference to your drinking. Let me tell you from experience, that's a danger sign.

Drinking is NOT the answer to anything. Period.

Don't get me wrong either. I do drink. On occasion. On occasion means once a week or so for me. I did drink a lot twenty years ago, for several years, and all it did was ret*d my development socially. I thought it was helping, because I thought I was the life of the party, and I was.

But after I knocked off the stupidity, I realized the only people who thought I was the life of the party, were all drunk themselves. Drinking never helped me relate to anyone but other drunks. Drinking alone, as a means to "answer" your problems, is just as destructive and time wasting.

Drink because you want to, and you can, but never in answer to problems you have. That's a huge mistake.

Nope. It doesn't do me any good. Even when I'm tipsy I feel horribly insecure in social situations - I'm just slower and have less mental power left to calculate and interpret and anticipate the other person's words and actions. And I end up feeling down and not being able to sleep while others are having a good time and then fall asleep. Not much of a hang-over, but it just isn't worth it.

I used to drink gallons every weekend and whenever I was amongst people. After my diagnosis I realised why and I find that now, I drink very rarely and lightly when I do. I don't worry as much about how I feel in social situations now so I don't feel the need to.

I cannot stand the taste of most alcohol. I have had very few mixed drinks (Pina Colade---or however you spell it, etc.). But I prefer soft drinks or water. I take Coumadin for a blood clot and Pulmonary Embolism I had in 2004---and I haven't had a mixed drink since, nor will I ever again. I probably averaged one mixed drink a year, or maybe every two years. So I definitely don't miss them. I can't say they did anything for me. But Mountain Dew---now we're talking.

Clever of you to pick that up

thing is is that it's so wired into society here - especially with socializing

I can't see what I would do without it (and please don't say the 'join a club' thing) - last night for instance there was no one about who I know who was doing anything so I sat in the house and had about a bottle and a half of wine and went round the corner to a wine bar that's normally crowded as its fairly new.

Before I went I dreamed up a bunch of stuff i was gonna say - which worked just fine - and I met a couple of people - couple of phone numbers and kisses etc - but its like it was a scripted act - its like i've got no empathy for what's going on. What I am good at is words tho and can remember the word for word talk that people have said to me years and years ago - like I can continue from where we left off - like this woman there last night -

I've never been diagnosed as aspergers but I stumbled upon this book a couple of years ago and I may aswell have been reading about myself

am not exactly sure what sort of point I am trying to make exactly

A few months ago, I decided to end a half year long stretch where I was very, very addicted to alcohol. I was using it as a crutch for social interaction and as a way to buffer my anxieties. When I drank copious amounts of alcohol, I felt I could do or say whatever I wanted: but this led to people being extremely concerned about me, others not wanting to hang out anymore and this one girl assaulting me. Being in the rave scene also gave me access to a ton of cheap or free drugs and so I also mixed it with things like ketamine and mdma. In short, I was treading into some really dangerous territory.

I have rampant alcoholism on both sides of the family and the first time I drank heavily it triggered these genes. Two of my aunts and my cousin had so much problems with drinking that they cannot even touch alcohol anymore. I didn't want to get to that point as I can enjoy wine and coolers without having to drink more: but give me vodka and whiskey and things go downhill. Once I got physically assaulted due to my drinking, it was the last straw. I did a sober month where I didn't drink at all, and now I am permitting myself the things I know I can handle. In short, I am successfully trying to manage my drinking.

I never drink (I'm not even allowed to). Alcohol is a worse drug than grass, crack, ice, junk, meth, and pot combined.

Yep.

Booze doesn't do anything for me besides numbness and it puts me in a bad mood the next morning.

Diet Coke is my poison of choice. And it ticks me off that it seems like nobody can ever have a social encounter without copious amounts of alcohol.

Nope, I'm too scared I will make an idiot of myself, and besides, I can get " high" just by being myself
Also it's bad for your health, and I don't want it to become a crutch like others are saying

I'm very, very jealous that you still have this ability.

The feelings I have on alcohol and drugs are strikingly similar to an earlier time in my life when I had zero social awareness and would get lost in my own thoughts and daydreams.

This is what happens when you force yourself to become normal: you become numb to everything and you chase this feeling using artificial substances because you can never get it back naturally.

I drink quite regularly, 5 days a week or more, I'm drinking right now. My tolerance doesn't really go up or down no matter how much I drink. I do it mostly out of boredom, and to mask the problems I have, although, it works there's a 50/50 chance of that happening. Even though I drink, I'm not really an alcohol type of person.