A Neurodivergent Rebel's Ramblings
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
S1, E55: Autism and Alcohol – My Autistic Experience with Drinking
From personal experience, I can say that I used to use alcohol because I had social anxiety, and had all of these mandatory work networking happy hours and events, where there was always free alcohol; and alcohol made the anxiety numb, and let me tolerate being in these situations that, if I was listening to my gut, and my self, and how I really felt, I would have chosen not to go to anyway. I was putting a bandaid on things.
One or two drinks, and I noticed that the sensory experience, if it is a bit overwhelming, can sometimes become a bit less intense for me, and it is easier for me to go with the flow a little bit, as my inhibitions go down, but it doesn’t take as much alcohol, as it takes other people, to get me tipsy.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2021/12/22/autism-and-alcohol-my-autistic-experience-with-drinking/
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