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⌈ Secret Post #4894 ⌋

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[What We Do in the Shadows]

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[sarazanmai]

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[image is a Dark-Eyed Junco (bird species)]

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[star wars]

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[Hairspray Live!]

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[homestuck 2]

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[ff7]

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[Doctor Dolittle]

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[great british sewing bee]

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["La Lisiada" scene from Maria la del Barrio]

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[Sailor Moon]

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Like, I know you get drunk if you drink enough, but I don't exactly understand what that means or what positive things you get out of it?

The only way for you to really understand it is to just get drunk. I mean, if you've ever been stoned or done any other drugs, then you know that they alter your way of experiencing the world, which is a feeling that's very difficult to convey with words.

That said, the way different people perceive the sensation of being drunk also varies quite a bit. We've got at least one person ITT saying they avoid getting drunk because they don't like the feeling.

That's almost unimaginable to me. I have intense generalized anxiety and getting drunk just completely erases it. Suddenly, the entire world seems fun. Everything is so effortless and exciting. I also feel more connected with my friends because I'm more relaxed and open to them, not reflexively holding myself apart the way I always am when I'm sober. And I'm a lot wittier because I just say whatever comes to mind, rather than triple-checking it and refining it to make sure it's what I mean.

The first time I got drunk, I remember declaring, over and over, that I would like to be drunk for the rest of my life.

Fortunately, I also got brutal hangovers which tempered my love of being drunk a bit, and over time I realized that the negatives of getting drunk were outweighing the positives (no matter how immense the positives feel while I'm experiencing them). At this point I only get drunk once or twice a year, and never drink apart from that.

But I really cannot overstate how incredibly good being drunk feels for some people. It's like a whole new world. Everything is better.

And for the record, I HATE the taste of alcohol. I think it is unspeakably vile. I never developed a liking for it in any way. But I mean, people willingly drink Buckleys when they have a cold, and it's nasty af. The good feeling I get from alcohol is so far beyond anything a nasty cough syrup has ever done for me.

The only way for you to really understand it is to just get drunk.

I guess I will never know then, because I have no desire to drink a bunch of gross stuff lol.

And I've never done any other drugs so I don't really know what that's like, either. I'm not opposed to marijuana, and was going to try it when I went on a trip to a state where it's legal, but they only let a limited amount of people in the store at one time, and the rest of my group really wanted to go and since I didn't care that much I ended up not going (and didn't feel like going back at another time), so it ended up just not working out.

Anyway, I feel like life is pretty fun as it is, but then I get made fun of for getting way too excited over even the smallest stuff so I'm probably just weird lol.

If you're a chill, happy person, then you'd probably just have a chill, happy experience being drunk. It probably wouldn't be that radical.

But if you've never experienced an altered state, then of course you don't "get" why people are into it. That's like saying "I don't get why people like music" if you've never heard music before. Of course you don't get it, you have no concept of it.

NAYRT but I think alcohol was this for my mom because we both had crippling anxiety, but I don’t drink because her drinking killed her. Also one of the things I’m most anxious about is losing self-control; I hate even the idea of drugs and alcohol because I don’t want to relax if it means not having it. But while I don’f think of myself as witty, I get mistaken for drunk/high sometimes because I’m weird and frequently have no filter despite my anxiety. It’s not that I don’t care what people think of me, I’m just bad at self control already so I’d be scared to experience anything without even my modest checks on my id.

I'm sorry you and your mom went through that, anon. It must have been incredibly difficult.

You're probably right. I think a lot of the time when someone gets very deeply hooked on a drug, it's because it "fixes" something that hurts them. It's not like an SSRI or whatever that kinda maybe makes you feel better. It's like a miracle. Everything is unambiguously better right away...until it isn't. And then you discover you broke a window, cut your head open, spit in someone's car, and pissed off all your friends. :(((

IMO you're very wise to avoid alcohol given your anxiety and your family history with addiction. Good for you.

What's interesting is that being drunk seems like it can go either way. On the one hand, there's people like me who feel miraculously "fixed" by it. My problem is that I'm too in control all the time. I'm so controlled I can barely move. Alcohol "fixes" that. Suddenly it feels easy and fun to do whatever fool thing comes to mind. But OTOH there are people who say they hate it because it makes them feel out of control. It's definitely possible you'd fall into the latter camp.

At first I couldn't fathom how anyone could not love the feeling of being drunk. But then I discovered that I HATE the feeling of being high. It is a horrible, horrible time for me. Which really made me realize exactly how different these altered experiences could be person to person, since so many people get so chill and have such a good time when they're high.

Anyway, good for your for exercising caution with yourself, anon. And I'm sorry about your mom.

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