• raptir@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I recently stopped drinking, just kind of organically. I cut down to help cut some calories and ended up stopping altogether.

    The pressure is weird at any sort of event. I declined some champagne that was being passed around and the response was “why not? It’s free!”

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      1 year ago

      I can’t drink alcohol for medical reasons. It interacts badly with one of my prescriptions. It’s really weird how often I have to tell people about it. Nobody really pressures me after I say “medical reasons”, of course… but I’m very familiar with that confusion people get.

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        1 year ago

        For me it’s basically the same reason I don’t drink soda. And yet no one questions me when I have an iced tea instead of a soda, but not drinking alcohol requires an explanation.