What was your first time drinking/ experiences

[pinkpetals155]

What was the first time drinking at what age and experience has it caused your trouble or neutral share your opinions

[kyupol]

I was around age 12. A group of my drunk uncles and their buddies were drinking. I was wondering if I could act like an idiot and look cool at the same time by drinking what theyre drinking so I tried.

I hated it. I spit it out right there. 🤣 It tastes like shit lol

[pinkpetals155]

Yeah alcohol does taste like shit that’s why I prefer fruity drinks anything else taste like battery acid

[pinkpetals155]

And I’ll be honest a long time ago I had drank some Tito’s vodka and I was fine but I started throwing up and crying it was bad it was mixed with cranberry juice and Tito’s and the met day I was fine I bounced back

[EncryptedWriting]

Had my first drink at 11 when having a beer taste at a hotel. Didn't like it and let it alone. Next was at 18 where my dad allowed me to have some Mike's lemonade. Some very light alcohol. I liked it but was also eh.

I have noticed that I really don't like alcohol. It makes me tired instead of happy go lucky. Like, I just don't feel right. Dont like the taste and it just doesn't sit right with me.

[TravisB]

I regret every time i was drunk. It's a horrible substance and i actually advocate that people do not drink and do not smoke or do drugs.

It's not "cool". Don't give in to peer pressure. If your group of buddies make you feel bad because you won't participate in doing substances, they're not your friends.

Don't do it. You don't need to drink or smoke anything or do any kind of drug in order to have fun or feel good. Believe me. Nobody really has a real reason to when you actually think about it. Nobody has a legitimate reason to get high or drunk.

[pinkpetals155]

True and I understand your perspective fully cause alcohol can make you feel worse physically and mentally and sometimes you can be dependent on it for many reasons I don’t drink as often but when I do it’s like light drinks like cayman and my limit is 3 maybe 4 but I like having limits

[ambermdo]

A sip of red wine with dinner as a kid. Didn't like it and haven't had it since

[pinkpetals155]

That’s fair honestly all alcohol can taste bad if your aren’t use to it or just don’t prefer it and that’s fine there’s nothing wrong with that your physical and mental are more important than anything else

[PeteLensing]

I started in 1988 when I was 13. For me it was 3 things:
1) taste
2) social factor
3) effect

The taste was awful for me. It took some years to think that
I like the taste of beer for example.

I really liked the social factor of it, I´m from the countryside of
Germany and I´m part of a subcutlure. There was no way that
I wouldn´t drink in the 80s and 90s. There was never a weekend
I stayed home, I always met with my people. Usually wednesday,
friday, saturday and alcohol was always a big part of it.

I first liked the effect of it even though that´s the craziest part of
it because I usually drank so much that I puked. But people who
get addicted to something don´t care about things like that.

I´m now 51 and don´t drink.

[pinkpetals155]

That’s good that you realized it wasn’t for you and that it was affecting you negatively cause our experiences of alcohol are different and are not invalid it just depends on how it affects us

[pinkpetals155]

Worse thing about alcohol is sometimes the hang over like your feel like 3 cars ran through you while unconscious and I rarely get hung over cause of limits I set for myself but I experienced them and they suck

[PeteLensing]

And the hangovers get longer + at some point you feel bad while drinking.
It´s really not worth it

[pinkpetals155]

Yeah and you can sometimes still feel a little drunk the next depending how much you kept down and you just feel a mix between nausea and and a headache kinda it’s hard to
Explain

[feuersichel]

I think, I was around 7, when I wanted to try the beet from grandpa ... And I hated it
The alcohol taste came for me after I was 18. I never got blackout drunk but I often drank with my now ex-partner and it started to bugg me. Now I very rarely drink alcohol. Because I saw the impact on people of my family and now on people I work with. It is a poisdon after all! I want to live a long life, without my brain beeing mush...

[pinkpetals155]

And that’s ok and I completely understand it cause it does lead to complications with you mentally and physically also
Your liver as we’ll although would you say smoking is worse than drinking or both for me personally I’ve never smoked and never will ever

[GamerPrincessXI]

At first time, I drank was when I was 16. My family and I were on a cruise and it was international waters and I ordered two Sour Green Apple martinis. I got seasick and it wasn't pretty.

The next time I drank alcohol, my fiancee gave me like half a bottle and being drunk, I thought he would nice if he smelled like it. Sooo in my happy drunk state, I poured it all over him. Long story short, I can't have alcohol anymore... I'm in my 30s. Lol!

Well, I can but only once a year.

[ThunderChicken]

I have never been a drinker, but I do have one funny experience when I was 12-13 years old. Alcoholism runs in my family (my father was a drunk but quit drinking in 2017, my older brother was a drunk but drank himself to death last year) and everyone was eager to get me drinking. At the age of 12-13 I decided to try it out in the worst possible way: a friend and I went splits on a 40-ounce bottle of bum wine (the cheap, awful 20% alcohol stuff that bums drink). It cost $3 for that bottle of wine and I still feel that we overpaid. We drank the whole bottle in two large gulps each. Shenanigans ensued. There were regrets. I’ve never been drunk since.

I actually wrote a bonus chapter about this incident in my true coming-of-age story, Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days. If you want a laugh, give it a read (not begging for subs here - with Tapas circling the drain that would be moot, but this chapter is pretty funny):

Read Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days :: Episode 85: The Drunk ...A Wild Nights...

[NickRowler]

My parents let me have some sips of wine as a teen. But I generally don't drink at all. I honestly can't stand the smell of alcohol.

[TravisB]

The first time i drank, i was soooo dry in my mouth i was almost dehydrated.. basically, i seen a bottle and drank the entire thing. I know it was kinda painful, to drink water so fast b..........wait .......nvm...you meant.....yeah