...until the day the tide stops coming in

mademoisellesarcasme:

anotherdayforchaosfay:
ravenbara:
geekwiththeglasses:
love-god-herself:
faefox:
softmoongf:
naturallytom:
hi can we normalize the idea of choosing not to drink
no cuz thats fucking lame
hey it actually isn’t! i get really really sick whenever i have more than a beer or two and i absolutely hate how people assume i must be lame/a kill joy when i refuse a drink. people choose to be sober or mostly sober for a variety of reasons, e.g. addiction, medical, etc. and not a single one of them is “because i’m a lame person who hates fun”
The degree to which drinking is seen as a must in social situations is fucking weird, and I think the fact that people are more put off by non-drinkers than by how much alcohol consumption has permeated the culture is … troubling.
Reasons why people don’t drink or drink only a little like OP:
They have a relative that is/was an alcoholic
They’re recovering from alcoholism or other drug abuse
They’re allergic
Religious reasons
They don’t want to
They’re sensitive to the effects of alcohol or just don’t like feeling tipsy
They don’t like the taste
Alcohol has a lot of calories that don’t offer any sort of benefit (it won’t even fill you up) and they’re watching what they eat
They’re designated driver
They don’t want to
They didn’t drink a lot of water today and know alcohol would only make it worse
Medical reasons
Personal reasons
They really just don’t want to stop trying to pressure them
Also, people who choose not to drink or stop “early” are not obligated to explain why. Why not focus on making sure your friends who are drinking don’t get behind the wheel of a car instead?
*raises hand* alcohol allergies are definitely a thing! i can’t touch it without breaking out in a rash and really never want to find out what happens if i drink it.
Alcohol will kill me, and at the last thing I attended that had alcohol being served people tried convincing me that “a sip won’t hurt”.
Strange that when I was school, from primary to secondary, I was told my peers would pressure me into doing drugs. Turned out to not be the case; instead, it’s folks trying to pressure me into having alcohol. Said people then get angry, of all things, that I had the nerve to say no REPEATEDLY. Sorry, but I really want to live. Y’all can go enjoy that stuff on your own.
More reasons:
- may not feel safe to be un-inhibited in the current company, for literally any number of reasons ranging from social to interpersonal to actual physical safety
- don’t like how they behave when having had too much to drink
- haven’t had enough to eat yet and is a natural lightweight already
some female-only reasons that should also be respected:
- some people react poorly to alcohol during certain times of their cycles, and it can increase menstrual/period pain severely – even just one drink or less (I legitimately thought I had food poisoning once after having one beer at the wrong time of my cycle)
- early stages of a pregnancy but not ready to announce it yet
- trying to get pregnant and also not willing to talk about that either

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