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Does anyone else hate drinking? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wouldn't say I "hate" it, but I've definitely never really understood it. like I bought a bottle of crystal skull vodka a month ago, drank exactly two vodka and cokes, and its sat on my shelf completely untouched ever since. The few times I've drank enough to get buzzed I didn't really enjoy it either.

As far as social situations go, I've never been on a pub crawl or anything like that because I've just never had those kinds of friends, but the times I've been at parties where people are drinking I've literally never gotten so much as a glance for sticking with soda. If someone asked I'd be like "I gotta drive/ride home" but they never have.