Tyler Baze - put the whiskey down, son

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The mentally ill can't go for years and years of sanity before falling off the wagon.

I think almost all people have weaknesses and vices.

I probably could have milked the Autism angle into getting feel good pills, or getting some type of cash benefits, or as a reason to leach off of my parents and sit around all day doing nothing with an excuse in my pocket. The Autisim is really just an extreme discomfort around people and a struggle to understand social cues and small talk. It's something you can accept you're not good at and try to improve.

If a person can accept that they have a weakness for booze -- they should still be able to work to avoid drinking themselves to their grave.

You have a very mild form of autism. Having worked in education for years, I've encountered kids all over the autism spectrum. Believe me, you have a very mild form of it.

I have a father drinking himself to death, and I have an uncle who dried out over 20 years ago. My grandfather limited himself to one drink a day, but I know he spent his entire day looking to when he could have that 5PM cocktail. The Apocalypse could have come and he would have still demanded his 5PM drink. All three were alcoholics; they all experienced the disease differently.

Like autism, it's a very poorly understood condition at this point in time. It won't always be, but assuming it's the same thing as a craving for chocolate doesn't help us deal with it, any more than calling severely autistic kids retarded helps them.