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?
Firing at the hip here - I would say it's the opposite of a problem, yeah. The reason I say that tho, is I'm the sort of person that booze will completely take over. I stay away from it entirely now as well.
Have some complicated thoughts on drinking. Going to rehab was good for me tho. SOMETIMES I miss it, but usually it doesn't bother me at all.
I'm really sorry you had to go through that since you're the sweetest person and you don't deserve any second of struggle like that
It was a state run facility, so extra horror stories.
Thanks for the kind words! At any rate, seems like you're doing well without drinking, so keep it up!