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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's a thing in UMC neighborhoods and circles.  If you grew up in it, it probably seems really normal to you, but drinking 3-4 drinks (or more) every day is, in fact, a fair amount of alcohol.  The reason that these people can handle it is that they drink like this all the time, every day, so their bodies are used to it.  It's like every social event has to have alcohol, and people are generally drinking more than they think they are (and they are more impaired than they think).  But because they aren't raging drunk or sloppy, and they generally aren't driving kids around like that, it seems normal, because everyone else is drinking like that.  Some of it is this idea that social events must have alcohol, and the idea that children's events are just so awful that you need booze to tolerate them, and this strange "Wine Mommy" culture that makes drinking into something cutesy, and the fact that people are "sophisticated" and drinking craft beer and nice bourbon instead of Coors Lite and Colt 40s.  There's a lot going on.  There are certainly some functional alcoholics, who are camouflaged by the fact that there are a lot of heavy drinkers and by the alcohol/parenting culture, so it's hard to sort out who is which.  And because it's so normalized, it's almost impossible to talk about, because the people who do have a problem get defensive, but so does everyone else.  [/quote]

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