My First Drink came at age 12 or 13. I was in the 7th or 8th grade or maybe the summer inbetween, either way, I was young. I don't recall what made me want that first drink, but I did, plain and simple. I remember sleeping over certain friends homes for the night and those friends had parents with lots of liquor in the house. Bottles of Vodka, Gin, Whisky, Burbon, Tequila, you name it ........ we could drink as much as we wanted and fill the bottles with water so it didn't appear any of the "booze" was missing. That trick worked especially well with clear liquors, like Vodka and Gin. Very early I learned what a "screwdriver" was along with a "gin & tonic." Being all of 125 pounds at the age of 12/13 it didn't take much to completely drunk. My drinking friends and I just didn't have a drink to get a buzz. We drank to get shot into orbit, completely wasted, as drunk as possible without passing out. | Alcholism, Alcoholic, Alcoholic Problems, Alcoholic Drinking, AA, Recovering Alcoholic, Binge Drinking, Alcoholic Help, Alcoholic Symptoms, Alcoholism. |
One other way to get drunk from those days of being a pre-teen was to have a drinking friend who had an older brother. Getting rides with that older brother to "Keggers." Keg parties with all the beer you could drink. Of course being one of the youngest kids at the party, not knowing anyone, and no one wanting to know you, the only thing to do was drink. This was a free pass, drinking heaven. Just hang around the kegs of beer and keep pouring into your plastic cup for an hour or two until you were totally wasted, drunk out of your mind, just blown away. Six to ten beers in a couple hours for a 13 / 14 year old and you were gone, drunk into oblivion, completely wasted. It was great. All the beer you could possibly drink, an Alcoholic's dream. And better yet, a young Alcoholics dream, can you imagine the excitement, having been without a drink for a week and now it was Friday night and you were at a keg party with all the beer you could consume and no one to stop you. Back then, it was great. Just hang around the kegs of beer and keep pouring into your plastic cup for an hour or two until you were totally wasted, drunk out of your mind, just blown away. Six to ten beers in a couple hours for a 13 / 14 year old and you were gone, drunk into oblivion, completely wasted. It was great. All the beer you could possibly drink, an Alcoholic's dream. And better yet, a young Alcoholics dream, can you imagine the excitement, having been without a drink for a week and now it was Friday night and you were at a keg party with all the beer you could consume and no one to stop you. Back then, it was great.
I did not know it at the time but I was laying the ground-work for becoming a teenage Alcoholic. I just want to comment; Can you imagine that, a teenage Alcoholic, who would want that life? I was headed down this road at 60 mph and I did not even know it. I was laying the foundation for the destruction of my life. All because I started drinking in my Junior High School years and - I liked it. I had know idea what lay ahead for me. The trouble I would get into because of my drinking. The lost relationships because of my drinking. The problems at school because of my drinking. The friends I would lose and the friends I would never have, all because of my drinking.
I had set that stage, layed the foundation, that the rest of my life would be built upon, and it would all center around drinking, becoming an Alcoholic. Alcoholism would take over my life in a very short time, at light-speed. And I would suffer all the tragedies of an Alcoholic Life. And by the " Grace of God, " be spared some of the true horrific things that can happen to an Alcoholic in a lifetime of drinking.
Alcoholism is a serious disease, and it kills people who do not seek Alcoholic Treatment. Stop your Alcoholic drinking, go to the page for AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, and find a meeting near you. Stop drinking just for a couple hours and go to an AA, Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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