03-14-2017, 01:40 PM
(03-14-2017, 12:50 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: (Self-righteous insults)
I certainly didn't need detox. I would probably be the last person anyone would want to have around people undergoing withdrawal from booze or drugs. I would not have the requisite empathy for someone talking about bugs all over the ceiling. I have seen people over-medicated on pain-killers; it isn't pretty.
I was told that I might as well have an occasional beer or glass of wine just to dissolve the anxiety that goes with the territory. That is the exact opposite that is suggested to people with chemical dependency. One drink is safer than pills for anxiety. It's the third drink, the one that dissolves reason and conscience, that creates trouble.
One good thing about Asperger's is that we don't have problems with chemical dependency.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.