Re: Confessions
I'm offended. Autism isn't something that should be screened for, it's just a different way of being human. Question, though.. Would you feel happier with a partner who had some nasty recessive.. (a real nasty, say, Huntington's chorea), going for the baby naturally, then aborting at an early stage if it carried the wrong traits..?
Also, for alcohol. Way I see it, in any sober situation, people have a lot of things holding them back. Nervousness, shyness, What-If syndrome, simple inertia, fear of change, etc etc. Alcohol does away with many of those, leading to them trying a lot of things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
Yes, it takes away your judgement.. but what if your judgement was wrong? Alcohol allows people to try being someone else for a little while, have a little more fun than their uptight normal self, maybe even escape the social limitations placed upon them. See girls who get super-friendly when drunk, often because they feel they're not allowed to express their sexuality when sober. (Or, they're just badly affected by alcohol.)
For me, I enjoy the taste. I don't find it really affects my judgement, or, rather, it only affects Tier 1 judgement, so my Tier 2 goes "Hang on there, you're not thinking straight, lets re-plan this." Getting drunk to the point of losing fine motor control is just -irritating- though. It makes me feel like Stephen Hawking must feel.. my mind is buzzing, and my mouth just doesn't want to function.
Confession? I'm somewhere between autistic and schizophrenic, and damn proud.
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