Writer Nuala O’Connor: ‘My growth in the four years since removing alcohol from my world has been life-changing’

Writer Nuala O’Connor: ‘My growth in the four years since removing alcohol from my world has been life-changing’

Giving up alcohol at the age of 50, along with my subsequent autism diagnosis, has forced an amount of clarity on me. My growth in the four years since removing alcohol from my world has been life-changing; it has precipitated the journey back to the self I abandoned at 18, when I first began to Dutch-courage myself into feeling ‘on’ with people, gregarious, and therefore ‘normal’.

Hold my (zero proof) beer ... meet the new generation of booze-free blokes

Mens’ behaviour is changing for the better. And this may be the cause.

High school students no longer shower after school sports. Contrast that with the unabashed nudity of older men in locker rooms, which sometimes borders on offensive nudism, and I begin to wonder what has happened.

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