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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high schoolers say peers don't care - some drink & some don't, but most in the "party crowd" who are throwing & invited to most parties are generally drinkers. If someone is a non-drinker in this crowd, they tend to have a great personality, be an athlete & well-liked.[/quote]

I mean, that's the way it's always been.

No one REALLY cares, but sometimes you convince yourself they do.[/quote]

This. 
The whole peer pressure thing is a boomer mentality they made up during the boogeyman days of Nancy Reagan "just say no" propaganda and never really happened.

Most of the middle age people now who think they were "pressured" at a party as a kid were probably just offered a drink or joint and refused and that was it, but they built it up in their mind that they were "weird" or ostracized simply for refusing.

[b]Most of the popular kids partake of drink and drugs at some point, but they also learn moderation and when to partake, thereby never becoming known as one of the stoners or drunks of the school.

Most of the introverted kids who never partake never learned moderation and are still uptight and judgmental as adults, and were often the wallflowers of the school[/b].

Kids and teens are hyper perceptive and angsty until they learn not to be.  [/quote]

You grew up watching too many teen movies.

Newsflash: not everything is black and white[/quote]
Yeah, this sounds like American Pie.[/quote]

When America was still great. [/quote]

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