Vodka for curing/helping with High functioning Autism

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nope, just saying alcohol is an expensive (in terms of long-term damage to the body) short term remedy to deal with life's challenges

How does alcohol even temporarily mitigate autism?

It just makes an autistic into a drunk autistic.

I didn't say it makes you less autistic

Personally, drinking alcohol doesn't make me less autistic.
Since I don't suffer from social anxiety, it meant I get no real benefit from it.

It's more like it's for those who are drinking 'with me' than it's supposedly (also) for me. An excuse to point and laugh at everything, cry or do something stupid - I don't have to drink to do that when I happened to do it impulsively -- only that drinking meant there's no need for me to explain or justify said impulses.

It is simply this assumption or understanding that alcohol is involved.

It doesn't change the fact that it gives me this tunnel like vision, body feeling like it jetlagged like how I consumed too much caffeine or melatonin.

Sure it lessens my external senses, but it also meant it's a blurrier mess that I cannot process.
It enhances and distorts my vestibular senses and proprioception -- my internal senses -- that I have to be mindful of my whole body in order to be in control -- let alone everything else.

And of course, your classic drunkenness symptoms; nausea, dizziness, etc.

Sure it's fun.
Yet it puts me in a state where I cannot keep a job or do stuff that I wanna do reliably.
Like a lot of things, it gave me pleasure but it also gives me this stupid sensitivity symptoms that looked like ADD or whatever worse and unwanted executive dysfunction.

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I have a drink once or twice a week. It's nice to relax a bit. I've never been drunk, and I don't want to. Alcohol is best for me in moderation and with friends. It lowers inhibitions and allows me a brief opportunity to laugh.

It can also be good for writing. Sometimes just a wee dram can help the words flow from my fingers. Too much and I get garbage. It's no good for plotting or technical writing.

This thread has to be a troll post, right? But anyway.

I don't really drink, maybe a couple of times a year. I don't like it lol, if it was up to me I wouldn't drink at all ever. I don't think it makes me any less autistic, just maybe lowers my inhibitions which could give the illusion of less autism.

I know one autistic person who drinks and it doesn't make him any less autistic at all lol.

Ahh, well it's whiskey they usually use for teething troubles, isn't it.
Maybe that's where he's going wrong

Know?

Someone who misses social cues might not want to consume something that lowers inhibitions and may very well cause more cues to be missed.

Alcohol doesn't affect everyone the same. For me it doesn't relax me at all. If I drink a little bit I need to go to the bathroom right away. If I drink a lot I start getting angry and look for people to fight with. So it wouldn't fix my autism in any way other than possibly damaging relationships.

The only common Autism comorbidity that alcohol might temporarily help some people with is the anxiety, especially social anxiety, that can often go with Autism. But anxiety is not a symptom of Autism in itself. Many Autistic people do not have anxiety.

it's generally recognised that the rebound anxiety one gets when the alcohol has worn off, later in the day, or by the next morning can be even worse than it was originally. So using alcohol as a "cure for Autism" is potentially a route towards a drinking problem.

There are much better ways of dealing with anxiety. But many of them also have the problem of symptoms rebounding even worse than they were originally, once the anxiety treatment is stopped.