What was your first time drinking? 👀

I think I had tasted a few sips or a small cup of hard ciders, beer and wine coolers and such a few times at family events when I was a child, because I was a curious child. I can't say I liked any of it. But I liked trying it.

I didn't really drink anything until I was 14, a friend of mine got drunk and her boyfriend took advantage of her a few times. It scared her and it was a bad experience for her.
A week later, She started bringing water bottles filled with Vodka almost everyday afterwards (her 20 year old boyfriend supplied her with all the cheap vodka and beer she wanted). She came to me to talk to about it and I very vaguely admitted to having some bad experiences too. She said, she guessed that I probably had and pressed me to tell her, but I never did.
I really wanted to help her but she outright demanded that I not try to help her with her problems and just shut up and drink with her. Unfortunately I liked the Vodka as a kid, and we sometimes enjoyed mixing it with juice and started to find solace in drinking too. It felt therapeutic at the time, because we'd find a quiet spot in school and drink and talk about some of our problems, listen to music, and what we wanted to do in life, at the time I thought maybe I could convince her to dump that guy, or I could help in some way. She desperately needed a shoulder to lean on. We also laughed at the thought that we did better at speaking Spanish in Spanish class after drinking (I was convinced it helped roll my R's). Later in highschool we both had a hard realization that we were depressed, drinking more and more and just wanted to get drunk every day and weren't functional human beings with hopes and dreams anymore. We stopped caring about anything.

One day we had gone a bit beyond tipsy, and we were hiding from some guys looking for us. It scared us all over again (because we realized it would be hard to protect each other and we didn't like that) and We both immediately cut back to once a week. And she finally dumped her boyfriend for good instead of hooking back up. It took me a few more years later before realizing I needed to go sober to clean up. I didn't like my reliance on it after I was finally free from my parent's home and the lucky thing was that the guys I dated didn't like me wanting to get tipsy before sex (not every time anyway) which helped pushed me to sober up too. Thankfully they were all good guys, and I never got hurt by them. I started sobering up around the time I hit 21. She ended up going to AA when she was 18 and later on became a firefighter. She was so happy with where she was headed in life. I remember celebrating with her and telling her how proud I was of her.

Note to self: I should really go hang out with her sometime. We haven't spoken in years.

Not sure how we never got caught by any adult. As an adult and former teacher, I'd have been immediately suspicious. I guess we were good at flying under the radar.

Anyway, to any kids out there...don't drink to escape or mask your troubles. It's not worth it. You just become dependent on the alcohol and that can cause all kinds of problems. You still have to deal with the original problem.anyway. And most importantly, try to be safe and if shit happens, get somebody to help you! :/

At 16, my best friend's mom got us some bartles n james, boone's farm and zima - I'm guessing because her cokehead ass reasoned we'd puke and pass out well before alcohol poisoning [nor was there enough to get poisoned if we split it] and we had a couple of guy friends come over and watched some horror movies. Bad mom left us for the night to take our chances with dumassary injuries and teen pregnancy I guess?

We put jolly ranchers in the zimas.

We forgot about the pizza we put in the oven upstairs for 2 hours and had to get it when the smoke alarm went off. Despite it being charred the boys ate it. ...I might've tried some of the least burnt cheese.

I know I was drunk but I swear I woke up and one of the movies was about some vampires that had these long tongues that had teeth on the end of them and there was oral sex and thinking "WHAT. THE. FUCK!?!?!" then passing back out.

The end.

My first taste of alcohol was at 15. I got drunk on whiskey. The second time was at 17, I got drunk on Screwdrivers. 😆

It was normal for an Italian kid to get alcohol before they were old enough to start school. Diluted grappa rubbed on the gums of a teething baby was common. Marsala to help with digestion. I remember having a raw egg yolk scrambled with brandy and sugar when I was around 3. Crazy if you did that with kids nowadays.

But the first time I got twisted was 17. Buddy and I went toe to toe on a 26er of rye whiskey. Bottle done in 5-6 minutes. I walked home on my face.
I greened out….parents thought I was on drugs…and got rushed to hospital. They let me sleep it off there making sure I didn’t aspirate on puke.

Took me 40 years to enjoy rye again. 🤢

It was on Summer 2013, I was 26 years old by that time, I drank Absolute vodka with orange juice.

I thought that if I kept myself clean and lived my life drinking alcohol for the first time with a partner then I would be a happy person instead of drinking alcohol at age 21, but then I understood that people wanted to control my life and make it like any other lady’s life before me, but then after separation and divorce and becoming a mother, I told myself “I cannot fix my past but I can change my future”.

Drunk? 14 years old new years Eve at local bar that never asked for ID

But we were allowed a little wine on special occasions growing up and also sips of my dads beer but he hardly ever drank

I didn't drink in college, which made my fraternity brothers happy because I could be the designated driver to take their dates home after drunken parties. They liked to mix a batch of fruit drink with everclear for "picnics" with their dates. They used me as the taster to make sure it wasn't obvious the punch was spiked. That was my first taste of alcohol.

I think I was 15.
I had 3 beers and I was tanked. 🤣

I was 15 when my mom offered to make me a cocktail. That was pretty significant because she was the strict parent. Like, really strict! But must’ve figured I was old enough for one in her book, lol. I just hope she doesn’t regret it now since I ended up becoming an alcoholic. Not until many years later, but yeah…

At 14, I had a friend in high school who often brought a thermos of orange juice and vodka and would drink it during free period.

A couple of times I took a sip, but seeing how it affected her put me off. At a house party she got really drunk and some guys were, I guess, about to take advantage.

It was a bad scene, and I phoned her older brother. He showed up with friends, helped me get her into his car, took us home.

Then he went back, and he and his friends beat some of the guys up.
Years later, he told me that if I hadn’t called him, the guys at the party likely would’ve "pulled a train" on her, possibly on me, as well. 😳

I was around 7 and went with my older Brother to a his company's picnic. I guess everyone thought it was cool to let me drink beer and watch me act loony. I was hung over by the end of it. 10 years later I went to work at the same company, and there were still people there who remembered that day.

I was 14. My buddy and I got a friends older brother to go to the packy to get us some Boone's Farm apple wine. We procured two bottle of that nasty swill and drank all of it. That was the first time in my life that I learned what my stomach lining looked like. I prayed for death.

13, my dad let me have a shot of tequila before telling me a really embarrassing story about himself on tequila 😂

I've tasted alcohol of various kinds and come to the conclusion that 99% of it is disgusting. Needless to say I've never been drunk. Don't like the feeling either so there's that too, lol.

When I was 14 my grandfather gave me a glass of homemade plum brandy. I slept for 15 hours solid after that and when I woke up I had wet the bed 😞

Around 14, at a family gathering, I drunk a couple of glasses of wine and vomitted after..

I had a few sips of beer with my dad when he was barbecuing when I was like 12. I told him it’s gross he told me that will probably change as you get older and by the time I was a sophomore in high school he was right!! 🎯

Beer, 16

At the time legal drinking age was 16 here, at least for low alcohol volume stuff such as beer and wine

5. I tried to cook my younger brother some food because we were hungry. It was like tomato sauce and something else I dumped into a cupcake pan hahaha. The only thing to drink in the fridge was beer.