I don’t use drugs nor alcohol, but I just turned 18 and I noticed that a lot of people younger than me (high school age so 14-17 even) use alcohol and sometimes drugs from siblings, older friends, etc.
Did you do that when you were younger than me? I don’t plan on doing so anyway.
I think I’ve always been older than you…
For now…
Is… It’s that a threat?
I started drinking age 14. At first it was like 3 beers per friday. By age 16 I was drinking a 12-pack per firday/saturday. By age 18 I was drinking a few beers every day and got properly pissed on the weekends, about 20-24 beers and some vodka. By age 22 I was pretty much an alcoholic. By age 25 I decided I either stop or die under a bridge with my own shit in my pants. Have been alcohol free now for… I dunno, 13-15 years or something like that.
Just came here to say alcohol is a drug too. Saying “alcohol and drugs” makes it seem more harmless despite it being one of (if not the) most harmful drugs we know of. I know its a common way to phrase it, not judging, just leaving my 2 cents.
Also to answer your question, I had my first drink at 14 and my first cannabis joint at around 17. I still smoke weed but almost never drink.
Once I turned 16, I would have a beer with my parents once or twice a month. Despite being in the US, in my state it’s legal for parents to give their kids alcohol, so it was no big deal.
Personally, I think it can be a fairly healthy introduction to alcohol, so long as the parents aren’t just giving their kids a 30-pack and letting them loose.
Never bothered with weed, I was never (and still not) interested
Fun fact from a psych nurse: you can usually estimate how many years a person has spent abusing substances by how many years behind they seem in their emotional development. A 30y/o who still acts 20ish has probably spent ~10 years using. It’s not necessarily contiguous, they might have started at fifteen, used for 3, got sober for two, used for 7 more then been sober for the last 3, but they’ve probably spent about ten years using in total. Abusing substances lets people avoid the psychological crises they would normally need to confront to grow as a person. When they stop using they don’t get to skip ahead, they have to pick up maturing from where they left off. It can also happen with non-substance behavioral addictions (like gambling) but it has to be real bad.
A minor exceptions, I stole a sip of my a coke without realizing there was booze in it. Felt weird, tasted gross.
0/10. Don’t recommend.
I didn’t really drink until my 21st birthday. My only memories of that night was being bought a shot of Hennessy, bartender telling me to put my shoes back on and then crying to my best friend that I totally loved her in the cab home.
Hilarious. 10/10. Smashing success.
I have Asian parents… can’t be touching shit like that lol
I’m 23 about to be 24
I never even considered trying it… I was just so submissive to my parents… my mom told me alcohol, drugs, gambling was bad… don’t do these things… so I just accepted it as fact…
I mean I don’t really wanna live a life like some gangster anyways… so now I don’t even wanna start…
I lost a master password to a password database once and that shit made me even more paranoid about the idea of memory loss so I don’t want anything to do with alcohol or drugs…
I’m so glad my dad is not some gambler alcoholic like it is with the common trope of broken families… I’d probably killed myself by now if I lived in that sort of family.
When I turned 21, I talked about going to a casino just to “play a small amount” for funsies… but never ended up going since I was dealing with depression and that felt too extra…
(As for the porn stuff… I just ignored my mom’s advice…
This is 'Murica, tf you mean I cant see boobs lol… let the boobs be free)
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I was a fullblown alcoholic and habitual stoner by the time i was 16. Started at 14. Im now 2 years sober at 29 and really mourning the lost time.
Alcohol not until I was 20. Weed not until like 25 I think. You’re probably about around the average age to try for US kids and a little late for euro kids it seems like.
Ofc.
And you know it.
You just want people yo assure you you haven’t made the wrong decision by not engaging in those activities pre-18.
Might’ve avoided some fun experiences, but also definitely avoided a few bad ones as well.
I don’t plan on doing so anyway.
So then you already know. So are you just here for “oh yes drugs ruined my life because I smoked weed at 16”- comments? Haven’t got any.
So then you already know. So are you just here for “oh yes drugs ruined my life because I smoked weed at 16”- comments? Haven’t got any.
Well honestly there are quite a few regarding alcohol.
I personally doubt that they posted for that reason though. As a teetotaler myself I also felt like I needed reassurance when I found out how many people in college drink so much.
I think it is very important to have friends that respect and support the decision not to drink, especially at parties and such.
Well honestly there are quite a few regarding alcohol.
And the worst ones I know are the ones who avoided it like the plague only to then instantly shift to binging, especially because they were of legal age to buy.
I think it is very important to have friends that respect and support the decision not to drink, especially at parties and such.
Doesn’t work in Finland
When I was very young my mom was making bread with beer and I begged her to let me try it. Finally she relented that I could have a sip. I took one smell of the can and never had really had interest in trying again.
Thought when it became legal for me, but figured I would either waste 5 bucks if I hate it or become an alchoholic if I don’t. Don’t trust myself enough to assume I’d always stay moderate with stuff like that.
Now that I’m older, I’ve seen plenty of friends get deep into it then struggle through getting sober. Feel like I made good decisions.
No, didn’t touch it at all until I was in my mid 20s, and then it was only alcohol.
No. I didn’t drink alcohol until 21, and didn’t try weed until 25.
User name leads me to believe you’re better off doing it beforehand if waiting til a legal age makes you crack happy.
Yes and I wish I hadn’t. What a waste of potential and life all those years were.
There’s no discernible benefit to this stuff for you mentally or physically so why go near it?
