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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its been a while now for me.

Personally, the biggest issue is avoiding people knowing that I'm not drinking. It can lead to people assuming judgment, when that is not at all the case.

If I go to a bar event, I will go up to another bar myself in advance, to get a club soda with lime.

If I am at an event involving a wristband, I will buy the wristband even though I don't intend to drink.

Sometimes though, its unavoidable. One of my MIL knows and its somewhat uncomfortable for the topic to keep coming up..

At the same time, I am more and more happy as time goes on with not drinking. Better all around.[/quote]

Why are you ashamed of it?  I don’t drink and it’s a nonissue, not something to hide.[/quote]

I am this PP and am definitely in no way ashamed of not drinking, whatsoever.

At the same time, I like to avoid being grilled on it... avoid having assumptions made... avoid having to filter my responses to questions about my personal reasons for not drinking...etc. [/quote]

+1 I don’t like to be grilled either.

I’m surprised by how much people drink. I have a friend my age who goes to bars. I can’t imagine wanting to go to bars at my age because it’s so hard to hear people.

Drinking causes cancer, I learned, so that’s more reason to avoid it.

As for the cannabis person above, I have zero interest in that.

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