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8:36am May 13, 2014

lipstick-autistic:

I’m actually interested in discussing substance use (alcohol and drugs) within the autistic community, because I think it’s something that’s also neglected in terms of discussion. 

I am aware it’s triggering for many individuals, but I think that substance, like sex, is something that’s never addressed in relation to autistic people because it’s assumed to be something we don’t do, and wrongly so.

I mean, just speaking as someone who has struggled with alcohol abuse as a coping mechanism for handling social situations, I think it needs to be talked about more.

I used drugs to deal with otherwise becoming completely nonfunctional.  When I went off the drugs and became completely nonfunctional again, everyone blamed the drugs.  Which was stupid and somewhat malicious on their part (because they knew better).  Also the drugs did not act on my system in any way resembling how they acted on non autistic people’s systems.  At all.  People generally thought I was on drugs when I was not on drugs, and thought I wasn’t taking them, when I was.  (This is how I got interested in trying drugs: Repeated, repeated bullying about “being on drugs” that prior to the bullying I’d never even heard of.)

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  2. thatmagpie reblogged this from munnarita and added:
    i used alcohol as a social coping mechanism for years because it made me feel less self conscious about how my behaviour...
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  5. munnarita reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    i used to get the “being on drugs” thing a lot too… a lot a lot. and once i went into school drunk and no one noticed....