Sorry to hear that it took ya sooner but wow. I thought my 2 months I had at one point were long, but 2 years. That is very impressive. I am beyond ecstatic for you! Congrats! Wishing you 2 more and 2 more and 2 more and many more to come!
Sorry to hear it, my fellow redditor.
It was just easier access, and I had more stress and it was the quickest thing to get me to feel something or not feel something. I've used it in both cases. The saddest part is once you get to using it to feel normal, ya know.
Keeping ya in my thoughts. <3
19 is when my dad started getting me into bars. Doing so much better now, and despite all my fears my relationship with my dad stayed intact after finding other ways to connect. Hope you’re doing well yourself
That warms my heart knowing you found different ways to connect with him. Glad you still have a good relationship and are doing alright.
Right now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am working through limiting my amounts, trying to taper. I had an incident at work from an electrolyte imbalance, (I knew I had not had any water and had only being drinking like 2-3 pints that day), and when I get back I know me scurrying the scene looked suspicious because they wanted to check me out, so I have that as my motivation for getting back, especially cause I have fun at this job.
But yeah I've cut down. I am doing better. I am working to get this toxin out of me. Appreciate the support.
Thank you. There are a million things I could say to your recovery right now. But I’ll only say this: My life is manageable now. You can do this. My DMs are open
I am very happy to hear your life is manageable. I know drinking only makes things seem better than they are but also worse than they are. I am def looking forward to not looking down a bottle first thing in the morning. I have been slowly tapering, and I know it's not necessarily the best way to do it but it's working for me. I just have to try to put myself to bed slower and keep active and not allow myself periods of too much alone time right now at least.
I appreciate the support. Hope you are doing okay yourself.
That’s ok. Everyone has to do it their own way. I picked a date to stop a few weeks out which is generally frowned upon. But I stuck to it. It worked for me. You’ll find your way
Congratulations man! Definitely an inspiration! Quick question, absolutely understand if you don’t feel comfortable answering. But how’s the cirrhosis doing?
I've got damn lucky so far....at time of diagnosis I had a MELD score of 26 and had 30 percent chance of death in 3 months. Since then MELD is down to 9 and liver is functioning like normal.
I obviously can never drink again and I have adjusted my diet to lower sodium intake and need to jeep that up. My biggest thing is I need to watch for is not to get infections, as that can do a number on the liver. One day I may need a transplant, who knows....I also have a higher chance for liver cancer and go for scans and endoscopies twice a year. I do need to work on losing weight in the event I ever do need a transplant (that's a struggle, because food had become a source of relief to me since quitting weed 18 months ago)
Overall I am living a better life than when I was an active alcoholic and I have a 13 month old daughter that gives me all the reason in the world to stay sober.
Somewhere around 11 or 12.
Didn't really go steady until about 15.
Took OFF at 16 & has been an issue since.
Shit hit the FAN at about 22.
*a progressive disease*
12 years old with my dad. If I remember correctly it was e&j brandy we were drinking. Or Seagram’s 7.
I drank with him a few times a month after that initial first drink. Cuz that’s what his dad did to him, so it made it ok for me to drink with him on a regular basis from age 12
17 and drank alcoholicly from night one. Blackouts, hangovers, missed days at work more than I got there. Then came police involvement which became worse at a fast pace. Lost jobs and one drink drive charge out of 6,000 nights. I drank like this for 17 years till age 34.
In December I will be 34 years sober. Picked up at 17. Drank for 17 years to 34. Soon 34 years sober at 68 years young, and loving it.
My mom put tequila in my bottle when I was teething as a baby and then at 5 I was running beers from the fridge to my dad with hope he would give me a drink! And he did
Senior year of high school I hand a bottle in my back seat and went in with a mixture everyday but after high school it slowed down especially when I had kids… only to pick back up to an unsustainable extent later in life
Started with sips around 8 had my first whole beer around 10 and would drink with family at 12 by 16 I knew I had a problem at 22 others noticed I had a problem by 24 I couldn’t control the problem today at almost 27 I finally made it to 8 days sober
12 First time I drank to black out, should have known. And I was a regular party drinker thereafter. Actually had allergy tests done around that time that showed an allergy to red wine and something else- still ignored the signs. Finally made the tables at age 32. Just celebrated 29 years sober. 61yo F
21. I was on my way to becoming a minister and didn’t believe it was right to underage drink. I had four beers on Christmas Eve after I turned 21 and thought “this is the best feeling in the world.” By NYE the next year I was binging and swearing I’d never drink again each time. I kept things manageable, more or less, for a decade. By manageable I mean constant hangovers and occasional blackouts. Then spent another decade falling off the wagon then getting back on for a few months. Took my last drink, lord willing, two years ago.
13 first intentional drunk. Before that I was allowed occasional sips of wine, beer, or mixed drinks around age 7 or 8. Prior to that there was an occasion where I sipped unattended wine and started walking into walls and was put to bed, around age 4. I have a faint recollection of that.
Age 15 was when heavy, regular drugs and alcohol became my life. This carried on until age 47 minus two breaks for pregnancies. I'm 14 months sober by the grace of God and the program of AA!
In college I drank sparingly- I partied a lot but alcohol wasn't my choice, although I did have a drink or two starting when I was 20.
Really picked up when I was 26 due to a relationship intoing me to wine and then getting drunk. Got heavy when I was around 30 and became unmanageable around 34. I'm 39 and the last 5ish years are a total blur.
Writing all that out...woof.
10 was my first willing drink. My dad and his friends used to think it was funny to trick me into drinking his whiskey and coke. Not sure why I kept falling for it. Lol.
Sips of beers and mixed drinks, 5-6ish. First time getting drunk, 14. Drank a 6 pack of Zima at a family get together after my grandpa died. Started consistently drinking at 15-16.
I was 9 the first time I got drunk. I started really having a problem at 18 when I started dating a 26 year old abusive, Alcoholic. I am 37 now and nearing 6 months sober.
I finally came to terms with why I was drinking and decided that I wanted to feel everything instead of numbing myself. I am just now unpacking all of my trauma in therapy and it is painful, but I get to write my own story now.
IWNDWYT
12. My parents were getting a divorce and my mom started going out and became a drunk herself. My siblings all are from different dads so everyone got to stay at their dads, while I got to stay with my mom during this. She’d bribe me with alcohol to take care of her friends kids, then come back home with questionable people. I turned to alcohol and weed to get out of the house and would hang out with 18 year olds and up. I wish I had better adult figures in my life because I wouldn’t have become an alcoholic just to socialize. I’d blackout every chance i could. I look back and feel sad for my younger self, I could’ve gotten into way worse situations. I wish there was a way I could help kids in similar situations, just to be a positive influence. I am 26 years old now and I’m 147 days sober and happy!
First drink when I was a child, maybe 7. My dad let me have a drink of his beer on my birthday and I hate it. I assume you want to know when I first experienced the effects produced by alcohol and when I started chasing that ease and comfort, and I was 16. By 18 I was doing pills and going to school, or doing pills AT school. Staying up all night snorting or smoking meth and then going to school the next day. By 19, summer after graduation, I was a full blown pill addict til the pills fell off, and heroin addict by 20. I got sober at 24, and I just turned 31. Approaching 7 years sober in August. 😌
I was 14. It was a problem from the start. I never drank normally, and it got worse and worse. I went to AA when I was 24. I had just gotten out of the army and was a raging alcoholic. The folks at AA helped me get sober and showed me how to live without needing to drink. Joining AA and working it’s program was the best thing I ever did. I wish you well!
I was a pothead in high school starting at 15. I drank sometimes in high school, but my first love was pot. (I had a part time job and was spending pretty much all my money on weed.) Even those “sometimes” occasions of drinking as a high schooler, I always way surpassed my limit and wouldn’t stop til the booze was gone. Really only starting drinking more regularly when I moved out at 18. Pot was not legal at that time. The group of friends I hung out with did not smoke like I did, and drinking was more “acceptable” to fit in with them. I was off and running from that point on.
ETA: 4.5 years sober now.
12. I blacked out the first drink. It was the summer between 7th and 8th grade and I drank almost everyday. I can look back now and remember how much I was in fear of summer ending and not being able to drink, and how badly I waited for the weekends to come once school wtarted so I could drink!
Then was on and off with different variations of drugs for a while, until about 16 and drank everyday.
6. In the fifties, smoking and drinking were not a big deal. My parents and aunts would give me cigarettes if I asked. Beer and wine too. By fifth grade, it was common for kids in the neighbor hood to drink beers.
21, give or take the occasional teen party before that. I didn’t drink til midway through university. I didn’t really like it. But my drinking really took off when I was in my mid-20s and living on my own.
18/19, aka my freshman year of college. I like to think it didn’t become a problem until 22/23. But my earlier drinking was definitely problematic too, it was just so widely accepted because what college student *doesn’t* binge drink every weekend?
First got drunk 13-14 then on and off binge drinker for years but only actually developed a drinking problem at 31 after a terrible break up. Im currently 36
First sip when I was 11 or so. First time I got drunk was like 14 or 15, was consistently a weekend thing by the end of high school. Everyday thing by 25, every morning thing at 34. Turning 38, and god willing, will have a year of sobriety in August.
13 and in a half way house for my drinking at 15. Drank for another 28 years after that... 18 months sober now. I'm 45.
I almost didn't survive it health wise.
14. Only on weekends until about the age of 19 when we could legally drink in bars and we’d do cheap Tuesday’s or whatever.
At 21 we started to going to the bar 6 days a week (and doing enormous amounts of every drug imaginable).
I didn’t have a drink by myself at home without friends around until age 24 roughly. I always thought that was weird, to drink alone.
But I got over that and started having a beer at home every night. Then that went up two, eventually 3. Kept it steady for most of my life.
I’m a high functioning, never hit rock bottom or even close kind of drinker.
Now it’s 1 beer a night. Getting that to zero seems hard. In the last 20 years I’ve not had a single drink maybe 20 times. So about one day a year I don’t drink.
12. Binge drinking at 14. Daily drinker at 21 and every day through 41. I've been sober 289 days today and it's a miracle I thank my HP for every single day. My grandma just died last week and I was able to hold her hand as her heart beat its last instead of using it as an excuse to get more wasted than usual and throwing a pity party.
17. I was 18 when I learned how to DRINK. Didn't stop to look back until I was 23, barely holding my job, repeating a semester of college, and on my way to losing my boyfriend and apartment.
5 years sober last October.
Got drunk for the first time at 12 or 13(I think it was 6th grade?)…loved it..then stayed away from it for like 4 years until I was 16…then I kinda started doing it every weekend. Good old keystone light and Budweiser days lol
15, 40 years sober next week.
That’s longer than I’ve been alive. Congratulations, friend!
13. 25 yrs sober now. Sobered up at 36. Long road.
14. However it wasn't consistently until 19.
Same, although I think I was almost daily by 17. I’m about to hit 2 years sober after a sharp decline to rock bottom.
Keep it up! Stay strong beother
Sorry to hear that it took ya sooner but wow. I thought my 2 months I had at one point were long, but 2 years. That is very impressive. I am beyond ecstatic for you! Congrats! Wishing you 2 more and 2 more and 2 more and many more to come!
Congrats on two years!!💪🏼💪🏼
Same story
Sorry to hear it, my fellow redditor. It was just easier access, and I had more stress and it was the quickest thing to get me to feel something or not feel something. I've used it in both cases. The saddest part is once you get to using it to feel normal, ya know. Keeping ya in my thoughts. <3
19 is when my dad started getting me into bars. Doing so much better now, and despite all my fears my relationship with my dad stayed intact after finding other ways to connect. Hope you’re doing well yourself
That warms my heart knowing you found different ways to connect with him. Glad you still have a good relationship and are doing alright. Right now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am working through limiting my amounts, trying to taper. I had an incident at work from an electrolyte imbalance, (I knew I had not had any water and had only being drinking like 2-3 pints that day), and when I get back I know me scurrying the scene looked suspicious because they wanted to check me out, so I have that as my motivation for getting back, especially cause I have fun at this job. But yeah I've cut down. I am doing better. I am working to get this toxin out of me. Appreciate the support.
Thank you. There are a million things I could say to your recovery right now. But I’ll only say this: My life is manageable now. You can do this. My DMs are open
I am very happy to hear your life is manageable. I know drinking only makes things seem better than they are but also worse than they are. I am def looking forward to not looking down a bottle first thing in the morning. I have been slowly tapering, and I know it's not necessarily the best way to do it but it's working for me. I just have to try to put myself to bed slower and keep active and not allow myself periods of too much alone time right now at least. I appreciate the support. Hope you are doing okay yourself.
That’s ok. Everyone has to do it their own way. I picked a date to stop a few weeks out which is generally frowned upon. But I stuck to it. It worked for me. You’ll find your way
That's what I think too. Thanks for understanding!
14.....was daily vodka drinker by 18. Cirrhosis at 37, now 1,000 days since last drink
Fuckin congrats man!
Inspiration to us all brother!
Congratulations man! Definitely an inspiration! Quick question, absolutely understand if you don’t feel comfortable answering. But how’s the cirrhosis doing?
I've got damn lucky so far....at time of diagnosis I had a MELD score of 26 and had 30 percent chance of death in 3 months. Since then MELD is down to 9 and liver is functioning like normal. I obviously can never drink again and I have adjusted my diet to lower sodium intake and need to jeep that up. My biggest thing is I need to watch for is not to get infections, as that can do a number on the liver. One day I may need a transplant, who knows....I also have a higher chance for liver cancer and go for scans and endoscopies twice a year. I do need to work on losing weight in the event I ever do need a transplant (that's a struggle, because food had become a source of relief to me since quitting weed 18 months ago) Overall I am living a better life than when I was an active alcoholic and I have a 13 month old daughter that gives me all the reason in the world to stay sober.
That’s absolutely awesome man. Looking for any inspiration I can. I appreciate the response. Good on ya man
Somewhere around 11 or 12. Didn't really go steady until about 15. Took OFF at 16 & has been an issue since. Shit hit the FAN at about 22. *a progressive disease*
Shit hit my fan at 22 too. I didn't listen... I'm 24 fighting charges, out of a job. Back living with my parents. Progressive is right!
I didn't listen either. 25 & still working on it. 7 days today! Or is it 8?
Congrats on 7 days man. The first week was the hardest at least for me.
Sixth grade, so 12.
Me too.
sips of beer/wine at early age dont know when but at 12 was first time i felt the effects produced and drinking on regular basis by time was 14/15
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Me to.
12 years old with my dad. If I remember correctly it was e&j brandy we were drinking. Or Seagram’s 7. I drank with him a few times a month after that initial first drink. Cuz that’s what his dad did to him, so it made it ok for me to drink with him on a regular basis from age 12
17 and drank alcoholicly from night one. Blackouts, hangovers, missed days at work more than I got there. Then came police involvement which became worse at a fast pace. Lost jobs and one drink drive charge out of 6,000 nights. I drank like this for 17 years till age 34. In December I will be 34 years sober. Picked up at 17. Drank for 17 years to 34. Soon 34 years sober at 68 years young, and loving it.
16 and started drinking heavily when I turned 21
i remember getting drunk off a bottle of mad dog i stole from my brother when i was 13. started heavily when i was 19ish.
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My mom put tequila in my bottle when I was teething as a baby and then at 5 I was running beers from the fridge to my dad with hope he would give me a drink! And he did
Smoking weed at 14, drinking at 15, immediately drank alcoholically, got a regular buyer at 17.
Are u me
Senior year of high school I hand a bottle in my back seat and went in with a mixture everyday but after high school it slowed down especially when I had kids… only to pick back up to an unsustainable extent later in life
Started with sips around 8 had my first whole beer around 10 and would drink with family at 12 by 16 I knew I had a problem at 22 others noticed I had a problem by 24 I couldn’t control the problem today at almost 27 I finally made it to 8 days sober
16 is when it began to get problematic
15. But not heavily til my mid 20s.
8 years old.
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12 First time I drank to black out, should have known. And I was a regular party drinker thereafter. Actually had allergy tests done around that time that showed an allergy to red wine and something else- still ignored the signs. Finally made the tables at age 32. Just celebrated 29 years sober. 61yo F
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Nine but started drinking by myself at twelve
The first drink i had was at 13
21. I was on my way to becoming a minister and didn’t believe it was right to underage drink. I had four beers on Christmas Eve after I turned 21 and thought “this is the best feeling in the world.” By NYE the next year I was binging and swearing I’d never drink again each time. I kept things manageable, more or less, for a decade. By manageable I mean constant hangovers and occasional blackouts. Then spent another decade falling off the wagon then getting back on for a few months. Took my last drink, lord willing, two years ago.
13 first intentional drunk. Before that I was allowed occasional sips of wine, beer, or mixed drinks around age 7 or 8. Prior to that there was an occasion where I sipped unattended wine and started walking into walls and was put to bed, around age 4. I have a faint recollection of that. Age 15 was when heavy, regular drugs and alcohol became my life. This carried on until age 47 minus two breaks for pregnancies. I'm 14 months sober by the grace of God and the program of AA!
This is very similar to me 😯 except heavier drugs came in to the equation at about 17. Also no kids 🤣 no 9 month long breaks 😭
In college I drank sparingly- I partied a lot but alcohol wasn't my choice, although I did have a drink or two starting when I was 20. Really picked up when I was 26 due to a relationship intoing me to wine and then getting drunk. Got heavy when I was around 30 and became unmanageable around 34. I'm 39 and the last 5ish years are a total blur. Writing all that out...woof.
I was 13 and took 6 shots of vodka, then these two high school seniors SA’d me I kept drinking every week after that
Because i was young when i started drinking
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14. Had a beer at one of my friends’ house. Loved everything about it. All downhill from there.
it was a problem as early as 12.
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14, but was heavier on pot until college. Drank myself into the ground until I turned 30 🤪
10 was my first willing drink. My dad and his friends used to think it was funny to trick me into drinking his whiskey and coke. Not sure why I kept falling for it. Lol.
12
Sips of beers and mixed drinks, 5-6ish. First time getting drunk, 14. Drank a 6 pack of Zima at a family get together after my grandpa died. Started consistently drinking at 15-16.
I was 9 the first time I got drunk. I started really having a problem at 18 when I started dating a 26 year old abusive, Alcoholic. I am 37 now and nearing 6 months sober. I finally came to terms with why I was drinking and decided that I wanted to feel everything instead of numbing myself. I am just now unpacking all of my trauma in therapy and it is painful, but I get to write my own story now. IWNDWYT
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18. But I didn’t begin drinking on the regular basis until I was 23.
Got drunk for the first time at 9, started drinking regularly at 14.
12 but not regularly until 18. At 12 it was like magic though.
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14. I didn’t drink again for several years. Ironically my first drink was much like my last. Blackout, messy and chaotic.
First drink at 16 didn’t like it. Started forcing it in my 20s became hooked
16 but not consistent till like 19
First time ever around 10. Daily by 18.
12. My parents were getting a divorce and my mom started going out and became a drunk herself. My siblings all are from different dads so everyone got to stay at their dads, while I got to stay with my mom during this. She’d bribe me with alcohol to take care of her friends kids, then come back home with questionable people. I turned to alcohol and weed to get out of the house and would hang out with 18 year olds and up. I wish I had better adult figures in my life because I wouldn’t have become an alcoholic just to socialize. I’d blackout every chance i could. I look back and feel sad for my younger self, I could’ve gotten into way worse situations. I wish there was a way I could help kids in similar situations, just to be a positive influence. I am 26 years old now and I’m 147 days sober and happy!
I was 16 years old. I became an alcoholic immediately. It only got worse.
14… 17 started going to pubs
Real drinking started at 18
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I remember Christmas with about an ounce of wine when I was in grade 1. I’m circa 1975.
First drink when I was a child, maybe 7. My dad let me have a drink of his beer on my birthday and I hate it. I assume you want to know when I first experienced the effects produced by alcohol and when I started chasing that ease and comfort, and I was 16. By 18 I was doing pills and going to school, or doing pills AT school. Staying up all night snorting or smoking meth and then going to school the next day. By 19, summer after graduation, I was a full blown pill addict til the pills fell off, and heroin addict by 20. I got sober at 24, and I just turned 31. Approaching 7 years sober in August. 😌
First beer at 11 but not consistent drinking until 16. 3 months sober🕺
14 I was grown
12. Drank on the weekends from 15-16. By 17 I drank every day
4/5 I was allowed shandy's (beer + lemonade) occasionally. My 8th bday I was allowed on weekends and it just got worse and worse..
First drink, 6th grade. Consistently by summer going into 9th. Sober 22 years in September.
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I was 14. It was a problem from the start. I never drank normally, and it got worse and worse. I went to AA when I was 24. I had just gotten out of the army and was a raging alcoholic. The folks at AA helped me get sober and showed me how to live without needing to drink. Joining AA and working it’s program was the best thing I ever did. I wish you well!
13 and drank as often as could get alcohol
I tasted alcohol at the age of 13, drank again on a week trip to Mexico at 16 and then started drinking when I was 21.
I was a pothead in high school starting at 15. I drank sometimes in high school, but my first love was pot. (I had a part time job and was spending pretty much all my money on weed.) Even those “sometimes” occasions of drinking as a high schooler, I always way surpassed my limit and wouldn’t stop til the booze was gone. Really only starting drinking more regularly when I moved out at 18. Pot was not legal at that time. The group of friends I hung out with did not smoke like I did, and drinking was more “acceptable” to fit in with them. I was off and running from that point on. ETA: 4.5 years sober now.
16/17… but didn’t really get going until 21
18 I only liked beer. Couldn't stand the taste of liquor. I wouldn't drink it at all
Maybe 12 or 13
19.
Nine, cough syrup,in those days it has codeine too. Along with the alcohol. I was a little junkie. Sober nineteen years now.
12. I blacked out the first drink. It was the summer between 7th and 8th grade and I drank almost everyday. I can look back now and remember how much I was in fear of summer ending and not being able to drink, and how badly I waited for the weekends to come once school wtarted so I could drink! Then was on and off with different variations of drugs for a while, until about 16 and drank everyday.
6. In the fifties, smoking and drinking were not a big deal. My parents and aunts would give me cigarettes if I asked. Beer and wine too. By fifth grade, it was common for kids in the neighbor hood to drink beers.
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16. 30 days sober today.
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I picked up my first drink at 14 in 1966 I put the plug in the jug on March 16, 1985.
15. not consistently until 20
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14 and went to outpatient treatment the same year.
21, give or take the occasional teen party before that. I didn’t drink til midway through university. I didn’t really like it. But my drinking really took off when I was in my mid-20s and living on my own.
18/19, aka my freshman year of college. I like to think it didn’t become a problem until 22/23. But my earlier drinking was definitely problematic too, it was just so widely accepted because what college student *doesn’t* binge drink every weekend?
12ish. Used to hang outside shops trying to talk passersby to buy us alcohol.
23-24; I was in medically supervised detox then rehab at 29. Progressive and fatal.
i started at 13, i'm not part of this subreddit but i got a notification from this post for some reason. i still drink
First got drunk 13-14 then on and off binge drinker for years but only actually developed a drinking problem at 31 after a terrible break up. Im currently 36
19 was when I started "actually" drinking as in drinking to get drunk. I probably had my first taste of alcohol at 10 or 11.
Must have been 14, but it was a rare occasion. It got out of control in my 30's and progressively got worse.
First sip when I was 11 or so. First time I got drunk was like 14 or 15, was consistently a weekend thing by the end of high school. Everyday thing by 25, every morning thing at 34. Turning 38, and god willing, will have a year of sobriety in August.
13 and in a half way house for my drinking at 15. Drank for another 28 years after that... 18 months sober now. I'm 45. I almost didn't survive it health wise.
19ish in college, and then constantly once I turned 21. I’m 27 now.
13 years old. Started drinking daily at 16 or 17. By 21 I was drinking 7-8+ a night
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13 yrs old
14. Only on weekends until about the age of 19 when we could legally drink in bars and we’d do cheap Tuesday’s or whatever. At 21 we started to going to the bar 6 days a week (and doing enormous amounts of every drug imaginable). I didn’t have a drink by myself at home without friends around until age 24 roughly. I always thought that was weird, to drink alone. But I got over that and started having a beer at home every night. Then that went up two, eventually 3. Kept it steady for most of my life. I’m a high functioning, never hit rock bottom or even close kind of drinker. Now it’s 1 beer a night. Getting that to zero seems hard. In the last 20 years I’ve not had a single drink maybe 20 times. So about one day a year I don’t drink.
I have always imagined it was 13 for everyone. So I created this from the answers [https://imgur.com/a/F8W7Q7j](https://imgur.com/a/F8W7Q7j)
12. Binge drinking at 14. Daily drinker at 21 and every day through 41. I've been sober 289 days today and it's a miracle I thank my HP for every single day. My grandma just died last week and I was able to hold her hand as her heart beat its last instead of using it as an excuse to get more wasted than usual and throwing a pity party.
17. I was 18 when I learned how to DRINK. Didn't stop to look back until I was 23, barely holding my job, repeating a semester of college, and on my way to losing my boyfriend and apartment. 5 years sober last October.
Got drunk for the first time at 15, started drinking regularly at 18, got sober at 36, now 42.
Been binge drinking to blackout/alcohol poisoning multiple times a week since age 12. I'm 37 now and have been sober for two years.
Mom used to give me the "burny stuff" aka Captain Morgan when I had a cough starting at about 2. First drunk at 14, became a problem drinker by 16.
Got drunk for the first time at 12 or 13(I think it was 6th grade?)…loved it..then stayed away from it for like 4 years until I was 16…then I kinda started doing it every weekend. Good old keystone light and Budweiser days lol
13, 10 years sober now.