I was a nervous kid. I didn’t try alcohol until 20 and weed till I was 31. They can be fun but remember your brain is still developing. Don’t really use them until that has stopped. They have profoundly negative effects on your developing brain.

And alcohol is literally just poison. Id avoid that completely if you don’t have a strong desire to drink. I say that as a neurodivergent that self medicates with alcohol. It’s not good stuff.

I think I’ve always been older than you…

I think I had maybe 2-3 beers from 18-21. It wasn’t a priority. I didn’t miss anything.

I’m 30 and I’ve never drank alcohol or done any drugs besides whatever medications my doctors give me. Watching beer and cigarettes destroy my father’s life kept me ever from wanting to even try. Plus seeing how damn expensive it all is makes me super glad I never started.

I did not.

I think I had a small amount of alcohol at weddings and new years celebrations when I was a teenager.

My parents don’t have the healthiest relationship with alcohol. it’s not the worst, but it never seemed cool or fun. It was just dad having a few cheap beers while watching the game. They never told me not to drink, either. No “forbidden fruit” allure.

I smoked cigarettes since 12, had alcohol as young as 14, but didn’t try marijuana or other illicit drugs until I was 19.

I’ve probably got most of the world beat as kids aged around maybe 7 or 8 we got a bottle of patchene and half a dozen of us got stupid drunk in the local park.

But yeah didn’t do it regularly until I’m guessing aged 15 or so.

Started at 13. Hard drugs a few years later. YOLO

My friend and I bought weed once when we were 17, but we never got the chance to smoke it before a third friend ratted us out. I started drinking alcohol and smoking weed a year later when I got to college.

I tried weed and alcohol a couple of times. Didn’t really care about them much though and never got into them. I started enjoying weed occasionally in my mid 30s. 😂 I still don’t care about alcohol much, though I’ll drink on occasion.

To be totally honest, it wouldn’t kill you to try light drugs like alcohol, THC or nicotine, and you won’t get instantly addicted to them or anything. But they are not healthy for you or your brain, and in the long term the potential for addiction is there. I personally feel that nicotine is the most addictive and THC. Is the least.

I would strongly recommend against even trying hard drugs, like opioids, heroin, meth or fentanyl, as those things can ruin your life or kill you quickly. Not all “drugs” are the same.

I have Asian parents… can’t be touching shit like that lol

I’m 23 about to be 24

I never even considered trying it… I was just so submissive to my parents… my mom told me alcohol, drugs, gambling was bad… don’t do these things… so I just accepted it as fact…

I mean I don’t really wanna live a life like some gangster anyways… so now I don’t even wanna start…

I lost a master password to a password database once and that shit made me even more paranoid about the idea of memory loss so I don’t want anything to do with alcohol or drugs…

I’m so glad my dad is not some gambler alcoholic like it is with the common trope of broken families… I’d probably killed myself by now if I lived in that sort of family.

When I turned 21, I talked about going to a casino just to “play a small amount” for funsies… but never ended up going since I was dealing with depression and that felt too extra…

(As for the porn stuff… I just ignored my mom’s advice…

This is 'Murica, tf you mean I cant see boobs lol… let the boobs be free)

Hopefully won’t try drugs ever, but I tried alcohol when i was around 17, while with my family. I figured it’d be safer than trying it on a random place without knowing my alcohol tolerance. I’ve learned that my tolerance was good, I didn’t find it good to my taste but I still think that not knowing my limits could’ve ended up in a worse result elsewhere.

Yep, first had alcohol and pot around fourteen. I don’t think anyone I personally knew had their first drink later than fifteen or sixteen.

I don’t remember exactly when I had my first alcoholic drink. Probably 22? I remember not being in a big hurry to start drinking, and I remember trying a wine cooler and thinking it was ok except for the alcohol flavor. Wine coolers! 🤣

I probably started drinking regularly around age 25. Some friends were having White Russians at a dinner party, and I really enjoyed the taste.

Nowadays I don’t drink much. Maybe one drink a month? It’s a tasty treat once in a while, but I hate the hung over feeling which seems to hit after like 2 drinks even if I’m careful about hydration.