Does alcohol make you more 'normal'?

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It's something I've noticed. When I'm drinking or drunk I seem to act in a more neurotypical way and I can socialise 'normally'. But then I wonder if maybe it's just because I don't realise that my behaviour isn't NT because I'm less inhibited.
Has anyone else notived like this? And do you think it's that we act more NT when intoxicated or just don't notice that we don't?

It will make you think so, but no.

Yes and no.

I'm one who can pass for an NT half the time, but I'm still hyper-aware of social interaction thus socialisation is uncomfortable for me in many situations, but when drunk I can socialise easier because I'm less inhibited and less aware of what is going on around me, so when drunk it's easier for me to talk to people I don't know or don't know well much easier than if I was sober. However this is how I view myself, it may well be that although I socialise easier I may also be acting more unusual when I'm talking to others. I'm told that when I'm drunk I'm just as oblivious to things such as being chatted-up as I am when I'm sober...which makes me sad, the one time I get to comfortably socialise and I'm told these people are only socialising with me to get in my pants

There is a point, as there often is when anyone drinks, between socialising and then drinking too much, at which point the problems of being an aspie can get to me...I don't revert back to acting how I do when sober, but I get upset about being an aspie at this point. So, like so many other occasions when you're AS/HF-ASD; it's all swings and roundabouts.

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It numbs some of the social anxieties and makes me more talkative, but I'm no less likely to shock or offend by my candor, and no more inclined to engage in social activities I wouldn't participate in sober - for instance, dancing or karaoke. No amount of alcohol could move me to humiliate myself like that. I enjoy it in small groups of close friends, where we can just sit and talk about special interests, but as far as clubs, large crowds or stupid people, I despise them drunk or sober.

No,but AS behaviors like talking too much, saying rude or inappropriate things, etc are more easy for NTs to accept as you just being drunk!

I am too young to drink (16, legal drinking age is here is 19), and have never had anything to drink, but I wanted to see the results so I voted "I don't know". I don't think it would though, stuff like this has a weird effect on me so I would probably get uncommon drunkenness symptoms.

No. It makes me more stupid.

Yes. My old roommate of a month and a half confided in me the first time we got drunk together that she felt that she knew I was "cool" then and up to that point she and my other roommate had thought I was kind of weird and aloof. By cool she didn't mean okay by some arcane standards, she just meant... I guess... its NT meaning of "not weird, easygoing and down-to-earth, approachable, relatable." I feel like I am never cool by this standard when not drunk so I cringe even at that supposedly benign usage. I try to be liked by others but only when drunk does it come effortlessly and work.

I like to drink, but I really dislike being drunk. Even so, I am more relaxed around people, and they seem to like to be around me more (either that, or they think it is hysterical for me to make a boob out of myself. lol) I have only really ever been totally sloshed two, maybe three times in my life (only one was unintentional). I usually don't even like to get tipsy. I don't like feeling out of control

No.
Caffeine on the other hand, makes me a lot more aware and increases my ability to follow conversations and makes me talk more and my speech a lot more fluid, so I guess it does.

When I'm drunk and sound just like my mother. And that is not normal.

Same here

Not only does it make me sleepy/dumb/careless, but for days and even weeks after I've stopped drinking, my anxiety level is through the roof, I seem cloudy and very easily confused, I am quick to anger, and I tend to gravitate towards drinking again like a wretched alcoholic...

Alcoholism unfortunately runs in both sides of my family, and I am most definitely afflicted. I can't manage alcohol at all. So I don't drink. Only solution for me. The world has to deal with me sober

It makes me less inhibited, which exposes my AS more, while exaggerating some NT traits too. Basically, me dialled up to 11

It makes me worry less so I can be myself more. Even though I'm still weird when I used to drink with my friends they were outcasts too so they appreciated that weirdness. I had a male friend who would sometimes hang out sober & he told me that I was more fun drunk & I agreed. When I'm sober I don't like having to make conversation. I worry too much. So you would see me running around from room to room asking people if they need anything or straightening up (that sort of thing) which tends to annoy people. As someone said, some people will just write your odd behavior off as a drunken fool which can work in your favor. Being absent minded & klutzy in general isn't likable but when I'm drinking I'm sometimes considered a fun, ditsy girl.

No. It just seems like it because it tends to make everyone else more autistic-like.

Alcohol makes me worse. I just sit in a corner rocking back and forth. And if I'm alone, I just sit and watch tv shows online. I'm not sure nonprescription drugs would help with AS. Though I've never experimented with any so I might be wrong.