Is This A Proper Act of Friendship ?

Those with Asperger's syndrome often display a form of perseveration, in that they focus on one or a number of narrow interests.

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Too little, too late.

You're a sad excuse for a friend, David.

Too little, too late.

You're a sad excuse for a friend, David.

I'm thinking there's something we may be missing

ehBeth wrote:

Too little, too late.

You're a sad excuse for a friend, David.

Why would you say something like this?

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No, that is not what I mean. It is your house, correct?

Yes.

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If so, why do you allow alcohol to be in your house?

I don 't have strong feelings about alcohol.
She was never an alcoholic,
but she drank a lot sometimes.

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So, you don't want her to drive and endanger herself,
her child or anyone else but, you allow alcohol in your house knowing
she is taking drugs?

Yes; Valium.

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The mixture of drugs and alcohol can kill a person
and you are concerned about her safety?

She was a long term Valium addict,
and had a great deal of experience with it.
She also drank a lot, occasionally,
tho she was only addicted to Valium, not to alcohol.

By the time that she moved in with me,
she had combined them, without ill effects,
before she lost her condominium, for quite a while.
She lived independently for quite a few years,
with free access to Valium and to alcohol.
I knew her for several years, before she lost her condo
and moved in with me.

At some point, she had an emergency
which rendered her distraught: her M.D. perished,
and with him, his Rx.

She was despondent, until in time, she replaced him with a few other M.D.s
and re-established her connection.
In the meantime, in her desperation,
she visited some NYC parks at nite,
where apparently some pharmacists have evening hours.

She called me on the fone, and complained of getting robbed,
a couple of times. I was not and am not able to keep anyone
from visiting the parks of NY. During her Valium famine,
she found that, to some extent, alcohol cud and did support the effects
of the little Valium that she was able to get.

When she became my guest, it did not occur to me
to try to prevent her from getting rum; I do not run a prison.
I do not stop people from coming and going freely.
I am a l'aissez faire libertarian hedonist.
( I also have never taken non-medicinal drugs. )
The alcohol that she drank was her own property.
Re-iterating, we both knew, from her long term experience,
that combining her Valium with alcohol never had any ill effects on her,
nor any discernible effect on her.

I have a long history of treating my friends with a spirit
of l'aissez faire libertarianism.

My obstruction of the doorway was a unique exception.