Has someone ever doubted that you don't drink or smoke?

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Because drinking alcohol (especially to excess) seems to be a large part of youth culture here, people are very reluctant to accept the fact that I don't drink. They find it incomprehensible that there is someone in the universe who doesn't like drinking!

i don't drink, smoke or abuse prescription drugs or take illicit drugs and I don't really care if other people believe me or not.

Actually I do care. But what I care about most is people doubting my honesty. That is the worst.

Coming from a family of alcoholics, they simply can't comprehend how it would be possible for someone to not drink. Every gathering I have to put up with crap like "You can't be scared to live your life" and "You only live once so why stop yourself from enjoying it".

I don't gain any pleasure from drinking so I don't drink. Simple as that. Well, simple to people who have a basic understanding of logic.

I've met doctors who haven't believed me when I said I had Bronchiectasis. They say "Who told you that?" Why the hell would I make it up?! !!

Even if you're a virgin with no intention of having sex it's probably a good idea to be on birth control anyway. If you are unlucky enough to be raped, you really wont want to get pregnant from it as well.

What?

I do both...Actually, I never drinked or smoked until I was about 20 and in college...

My good friend (still my friend) kept telling me that he just couldn't understand how I could be so good...that I just had to do at least ONE bad thing...Well, he gave me a cig...lovely...then around the age of 27, I actually had a drink...Now, I do both...hmmm...not good.

I never did anything bad in highschool though...

As a child, I had ADHD... or was diagnosed with it, in any case... I was on Dexedrine for a few years. some days when I forgot to take my Dexedrine, people described me as being "on crack"... I had no idea what that meant.

Quite the opposite, I've had jobs where I was so 'uptight' I had people who were convinced that I'd never had a smoke or a drink. (! !) They'd toss off some statement after telling about some wild clubbing they'd done the night before like, "Oh of course you have no idea what I'm on about." I went along with their impression, and used that joke from "Annie Hall", 'right, I grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting.'

I came down with shingles in my late 20s. The doctor I saw started looking for reasons that my immune system might have been weakened, and asked if it were possible that I might have HIV. I told her no. She paused and gave me a blank expression that felt like she didn't believe me - that she thought I was in denial. But it was truly impossible for me to have HIV - I'd never had a blood transfusion, never done intraveneous drugs, and was a virgin. (The truth was that I'd had a respiratory infection a few weeks earlier, which probably did the weakening.)

Whenever I'm around people drinking, I try to avoid mentioning that I don't drink. When it happens, it always amuses me that the most-often response is: "That's cool!" accompanied by an attempt to sound sincere. I've gotten in the habit of responding with: "No, not really." Seems to take the edge off.

Having said that, I love watching people try to process the phrase: "I've never had a beer." Though, in fairness, it's a close second to: "I've never had a cup of coffee." Most people can't seem to process that one at all. It's completely unfathomable (though entirely true).

When it comes to being suprised at the news that someone doesn't drink a certain type of beverage, I'd be marginally surprised only if I learned someone doesn't drink water.