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I never got into it and I feel like I'm missing a huge social part of my life. I've tried alcohol and it just tastes bad. Maybe if I had enough to get inebriated I'd feel different, but so far nothing about the experience of drinking has been good. Also I grew up around Baptists who don't have drinking in the culture, so maybe that's part of it? My parents never had alcohol in the house and there was never beer/wine at family gatherings. I never even saw a full glass of beer in person until I was like 23.

Bars are too loud and there's too much expectation to drink, parties have the same problem, drinking at home alone sounds sad. I go to concerts and I'm the only person without a huge glass of beer. People hand me drinks and I'm like "nah" and they get mega confused.

What do I do

Is this the opposite of a problem?

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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Firing at the hip here - I would say it's the opposite of a problem, yeah. The reason I say that tho, is I'm the sort of person that booze will completely take over. I stay away from it entirely now as well.

Have some complicated thoughts on drinking. Going to rehab was good for me tho. SOMETIMES I miss it, but usually it doesn't bother me at all.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

rehab

I'm really sorry you had to go through that since you're the sweetest person and you don't deserve any second of struggle like that

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

meow-hug

It was a state run facility, so extra horror stories.

Thanks for the kind words! At any rate, seems like you're doing well without drinking, so keep it up!

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