• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

Recent content by Fatamsimth

  1. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Oh yes. "It's everyone else's fault" is a pretty common refrain from my Dad as well.
  2. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Unlike cancer, alcoholism is a self diagnosed disease.
  3. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    My first AA sponsor used to say, "It's not what you drink, how often, or how much that determines whether you're an alcoholic. It's what happens to your life when you drink the amount of what you drink when you drink it." I know people who can really put it away, and may be doing some long term...
  4. Fatamsimth

    Man I concur. Terrible sleep most of my adult life. Especially the past decade. Makes everything...

    Man I concur. Terrible sleep most of my adult life. Especially the past decade. Makes everything harder than it should be.
  5. Fatamsimth

    Tubes for the win.

    Tubes for the win.
  6. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    One thing is certain, I can relate to some portion of everything you've posted.
  7. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Hey if you can manage it and it's not ruining your life, I say enjoy. If that changes, there's help available. For now you get bragging rights.
  8. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Curious to hear how it works out. I was all or nothing. As I heard someone once say, "If I wasn't an alcoholic I would drink all the time!"
  9. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Man I wish I had advice, but this really hit home -- " a life to pretend I’m enjoying." I am dealing with a lot of this as well. If I had known years ago what I know now, things would look a bit different. I had a therapist once tell me, "You have to find a way to mourn the life you don't have...
  10. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Ha paroled. That's a good way to describe it.
  11. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Oof. Los Angeles traffic. Did that for 13 years. Enough to drive anyone to drink
  12. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Yeah that's a tricky spot to be in. I probably wouldn't have quit until I moved in with my girlfriend (now wife). But at my rate I don't know that I would have lived very long either.
  13. Fatamsimth

    Just Joined

    Thank you!
  14. Fatamsimth

    Hiding it with alcohol?

    Totally get all that. The question to ask yourself is whether you can enjoy and control your drinking. If both, there's no real need to stop. If you can control it, but no longer enjoy it, then you'll stop anyway. If you can't control it, but still enjoy it, you won't be motivated to stop. For...
  15. Fatamsimth

    Newly diagnosed and it explains so much!

    If I could construct a world in which my work life, family life, and social life allowed me to only work with my strengths life would be so much better. Wish that were realistic.
See more
Top Bottom