I am completely teetotal and I'm curious as to how common this is. I noticed a few people on the recent thread talking about not drinking for similar reasons to myself and I'm reasonably sure I recognised some fellow aspie teetotallers.
For me one of the reasons I don't drink is that I don't like the taste (which I guess could be an aspie thing as many of us have very specific and strong likes and dislikes food/drink wise). However there are many types of alcohol I haven't even bothered trying as the main reason is that I find it affects me very badly.
I find it incredibly easy to become very anxious and depressed. My tolerance is and always has been utterly shite. I can go from happy to spaced to panic to suicidal within 3 drinks (and I can go from zero to vomiting on your shoes in 1 mouthful if you give me vodka...)
I also hate the feeling of being out of control. I spend my whole life feeling out of my depth and I can't cope when the drunk feeling takes away the little control I have. When I had my DD they gave me a spinal to remove the placenta. That affected me far more than ANYTHING else in that labour or my labours since. I just could not cope with not having control of my own body and I freaked out until it wore off. I wasn't too bad on gas and air as it spaced me enough to not care but it wore off fast so I could regain control reasonably quickly when I felt I needed to. However the spinal just left me feeling trapped and paniced. It was awful.
Is anyone else like this? I am just curious as to if it's a common thing to be so badly affected by alcohol.