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I'm curious about how your current drinking habits reflect your early impressions/experiences with alcohol.
What was the attitude of your parents towards alcohol? Was it a big deal?
Do you remember your earliest impressions of alcohol?
Did you drink as a teenager/young adult?
And do you think this had any effect on your current drinking habits?
I'm interested in the comments, but feel free to vote.
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First of all, why did you have to use such complicated terms for answers? I really didn't know what to make of it. Could be because English is not my mother tongue (actually I'm Dutch), but I just don't understand what option stands for what.
My parents didn't make a big deal out of alcohol. Their opinion was that on special occasions like parties or holidays it was OK to drink. So did they and so did I. Just a few glasses, never too much.
Later on as I became a more rebelious teen I started to drink more and more often. When I was 14 I went on holiday with some friends and without my parents and I was drunk just about the whole week. But I survived and now I intend to drink a bit less.
I don't blame my parents for anything, they teached me in the right way. That holiday I would have been drunk anyway, can't blame it on them. We all got to go through our teenage years and those include learning to deal with alcohol, wich is done by making mistakes. Parents should allow their children to make those mistakes, otherwise they never learn.
Thanks, I appreciate your comment as I'm pretty curious about the views and experience of everyone.
The poll choices are completely irrelevant, I thought it might encourage more focus on the comment section. In hindsight, maybe a yes/no story would have been better.
I chose those option words because they sound nice.
My current drinking habits do not reflect my attitude towards alcohol when I first was introduced to it. I tried beer when I was ten years old and thought it was horrible, could not understand how anyone could drink it. Really bitter. Nowadays I love beer.
I started drinking more regularly as experimentation when I was 15 but this was drinking to experience being drunk, I still did not enjoy the taste of alcohol at the time. Getting drunk was probably a once a month thing at that time and was highly secretive.
It wasn't a big deal to my parents, but then again they had more pressing issues trying to curb my interests in marijuana. Alcohol therefore, did not get their time or attention.
All in all I don't think there's any connection between my introduction to alcohol to my current drinking. I enjoy a drink almost every night now, but always in moderation and I rarely get drunk, only on big occasions where its an event and its used as social lubrication.
My current drinking habits are I don't really. Not that I have anything against it. I will have a drink or 2 or 3 every 3-6 months. But I haven't been drunk in years.
My past has little to nothing to do with my current habits.
My first impression that I can remember of alcohol, just realizing what it did: was meh.
First taste was whisky: It was blek because I was I about 7. Now it is my drink of choice, on the rare occasion that I drink.
Being raised in a French boarding school, where we were served watered down wine with lunch and dinner; alcohol was not a prohibited thing in my life.
I went to sea at a young age and drank with my shipmates all through my teen years. Amazingly enough, though I was/am able to consume large quantities of alcohol, I have absolutely no proclivity toward alcoholism, so perhaps that is more a matter of genetics than consumption?
As I get older, I drink only alcoholic beverages I like, preferring to pass on the horse piss that passes for beer in the US, usually for the pleasure of the drink, rather than with the intention of getting drunk, usually!
This past month i've been drinking every other to almost everyday. I've stopped now because I could see a negative effect on my loved ones and my own physical well being.
But I never thought it could happen to me really. I grew up in a house that respected alcohol and it's moderate, recreational use. It was never forced upon me or kept secret from me.
My dad was an alcoholic, and he got nasty when he was drunk, from a very young age he would force me to drink it, he would always give me alcohol and pretend it was something else, often alco pops so it didn't taste of alcohol.
I always knew something was wrong and the "special drinks" he gave me were wrong and made me feel bad but I was young and didn't know what and mydad was an iintimidating guy so Ijust drank them, it wasn't until I was a little older that I clocked on.
So yeah, my first experience with alcohol was not good, because of that I never drank as a teenager it wasn't until the last few years that I'd been drunk of my own accord.
I don't mind it, on a night out it can make it that bit better and calms my slight anxiety of crowded clubs etc, but I'm not really that bothered by it, it might be because I used to smokeweed, after that the effects of alcohol seem a bit, meh.
So iI have a drink at Christmas and on the occasional night out but I never really get that drunk.