Alcohol

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I have two questions about alcohol. What aspies think about drinking alcohol? Do they tolerate it less than NTs? And why? Also I want to know how alcohol can affect aspie. How can he/she change. Can he/she become more communicative or more normal?

Well, haven't you just come to the right aspie!! !

I found alcohol to be very relaxing, and yes it seemed easier for me to interact with others when I got a slight buzz on. I felt more relaxed, less self-conscious, less anxious that I might do or say the wrong thing. I especially liked wine, which left me feeling all mellow and calm - for a while.

But I came to have a real problem with it, and now I cannot drink booze in safety. The end of the boozey road for me was that alcohol made me feel completely lousy all the time, except for the few hours in the evening when I allowed myself to drink it. The more I drank, the more anxious and tense I was in the hours I could not drink. Drinking all the time didn't work very well either; I ended up in rehab a couple of times.

I have to work every day to stay sober, but for me drinking alcohol equals the death of everything else that is pleasurable, or important. In the end, it made me weak.

I would be interested to know if other aspies have had abuse problems with alcohol or drugs. I liked the effect of both way, way too much.

Alcohol is very nice, thankyou. A number of large bottles of Hoegaarden or Duvel would go down very nicely.

I like alcohol. It takes the edge off for me, and puts me at ease in a social situation. I guess I tolerate it worse than most NTs, since it takes me just three drinks to start feeling the effects. Overall, it'd say it makes more communicative, which sometimes result in personal stuff spilling out. The Jewish holy book Talmud actually has a saying: "When wine goes in, secrets come out." So true, it's not even funny.

Im never going to drink it.

Why's that then? A pint or two won't kill you - it's when people start abusing it that problems arise. If it's out of personal conviction, fair enough.

I like alcoholic drinks especially beer.
But like alot of things there are risks to it.
I was a heavy drinker for a short while.
But due to feeling like crap i soon quit drinking.

Now i occasionally drink and enjoy it.
Not too much because it wil get me a beerbelly

When i was younger, I started drinking and discoved it did indeed make me feel relaxed and it felt like I became more confident.

This is an illusion and didn't really overcome the problems that i had.

I like many others probably drank too much at one time or another. Now I'm happy not drinking at all. I've stopped trying to be someone that I'm not.

i never drank too much alcohol like my alcoholic acpie father....i think a wheat intolerance(gluten) made me feel very very ill worse than a normal hangover so i never took up the habit, but i used to drink a lot to socilaise, i used to only sleep with girls when i was drunk it gave me confidence to make moves i would never do otherwise.
now when i drink beer i am aware i may have a wheat gluten intolrance and it makes me tired and ill...........
but aspies and alocohol abuse is common i think.

I love beer. I drink beer every day. Wine is also very good. Liquor makes me belligerent so I don't drink it anymore (except for the very occassional shot). There have been a couple of times in my life that I was drinking too much. At one point I was drinking a 6 pack a night and I'm not a very large person. I was also only 21 and could tolerate the hangover a little better than I can now. Now I'll have a couple of times that I'll have more than one beer, but I can always get back to my one beer the next day. I DO NOT like to be drunk. I always stop drinking when I feel like I'm talking faster than my mouth will move. Buzzed is one thing, but working yourself to an inevitible hangover isn't much fun.

Drinking can make me depressed like hell, so I have to be careful. It make my loneliness much worse then it would be otherwise be.

No person, who ever drinks because they are depressed, can ever feel be as depressed as me because true depression is not a nice thing, I tell thee.

I posted elsewhere about this but I think its important so Im going to blather on a bit anyway...I have alot of depression and alcoholism in my family(as well as diabetes and social phobias)I really have no specific scientific data, but I intute that these things "go together"...I'm not sure about where AS fits in, because there is so much diversity in the aspie popultion, but I do think that it would make us more "prone/vulnerable" to addiction.

I was a weekend "drunk" from 16 to 26 when it finnally caught up with me, and I ended up homeless,sleeping under rail road bridges, hitting 7-11 dumpsters for left-over dounuts and taking "sink-baths" at the local McDonalds...I was adopted by a middle class family and managed to graduate college so it was a bit of a suprise for me..."how low can you go"..Obviously, Im not saying any aspie who drinks will end up living in a dumpster...but I really,really loved how easy it was for me to socialize when I drank and people who were drunk didn't seem to care how weird I was...so...it was hard to stop.

Also, all those years I drink to socialize,I was not learning true skills in socializing....I still cant socialize, so I dont know if I would have learned in those years and lost my chance or if its just not possible for some of us....luckily, Im older now and more content to have less socializing in my life but I know it was very important in my teens and twentys....do we out grow the need?

Alcohol tends to loosen me up. Sometimes this is very good, whereas other times, this can be really bad.........

There is nothing wrong with a little alcohol just some people can't stop at just a little. Just a little can loosen you up a lot can turn you into an a@@. I dont think it affects people with ASD any differently than anyone else unless they begin to use it a crutch in all social activities but that would not be just a little

Alcohol helps me relax and also 'brings me back to earth'. When I'm drinking I don't get lost in my own thoughts so easily and I have a bit more of an idea what's going on around me.

I used to have a real problem as far as just feeling dumbed out the next day off of just about anything - alcohol included. As of the past few years though I've noticed that my body's attuned to it a lot better and like a lot of people here it tends to relax me a lot more and I can be in the game a lot easier rather than feeling like I'm locked behind all kinds of barriers. The thing I think that also helps, its just one of those things where when your at a party and doing shots with all kinds of people they like to see it - not to mention the fact that them getting drunk a lot of times helps facilitate more on-the-level communication. I've never had any problems with violence or blackouts, I think at the worst my psychological tolerance can get too high to where I can think pretty level all the way till I'm over the toilet - once in a while if I'm at a party and feeling a bit of tension I've put myself there, partially just trying to loosen up and yeah, partly because I felt like I had something to prove.