Considering how alcohol helps and hinders creativity

With the application of my new understanding of autism

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This is a post I wrote in May 2019. I was three years sober and had no idea I was autistic. It’s interesting to read with my current knowledge of my diagnosis and to recognise the signs of undiagnosed autism that I correlated with, or that pushed me towards, addiction. I’m going to share the original post, with a few annotations in bracke…