Anyone else have problems with alcohol and drunk people?

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I drink quite a bit, for two reasons. 1) When I'm with people it helps me socialize, and 2) it helps me decompress faster after a full day of exposure to people and the world outside. The only time I don't drink is when I've had the chance to stay home for a couple of days, not seeing anyone and not having to deal with the disturbance of the outside world.

I don't drink to the point where I get particularly drunk, just so that I get the buzz to calm things down.

Yeah me too actually.

To be honest I do not mind one or two drinks in certain scenarios. I just don't like excessive drinking and partying.

Drunk people are funny.

I used to sit outside the main street when the bars let out and laugh at the drunks. Plus there were some good fights.

I can put back some whiskey though.

Yeah. Alcohol has never been my favorite drug although I've gone through phases when I was doing a fair amount of it.

It's just not as much fun nor as useful or constructive as some other things. And the social (ir)responsibility around it is often somewhere between distressing and annoying.

I dont drink as much these days yeah we live on a island full of drunks and it make our roads dangerous i can't believe it's 2012 and those two worst drugs cigerettes and alchol are legal that do nothing benifical what so ever and all the organic positive drugs are still demonzied, This nanny state is run by inbred control freaks that only care about making more money and reducing freedoms i can't wait until their gone the sooner the better and they won't be missed

I drink often purely as a social drinker. I hang out with other people who are also out drinking socially. The place we go to is either Wetherspoons, or a theatre bar which is quiet, sedate and where loud, loutish drinking would simply not be tolerated. I will stop after two pints and then go to soft drinks or maybe a coffee thereafter. I have been drunk once or twice in the past which was not a good idea. This a) makes you look like a dick and b) I find it an assault on the senses when other people are like that anyway, therefore HAD to curb it in myself.

While I can see social drinking and having a beer or two, I don't really understand the desire to go binge drinking and get smash drunk. I'm in college, and from what I've observed, getting that out-of-it will, 9 times out of 10, end up with you regurgitating whatever was inside of your upper gastrointestinal tract into the dorm hall toilet for the world to see. The other 1 time out of 10, you get in a drunk-fight with someone and end up stumbling to the ER for all your buddies to explain why your alcohol level is in the dangerous range when you're under 21. The answer "jello shots" probably isn't what anyone wants to hear.

I HATE alcohol. I used to drink to try to fit in but it was never really me. Plus, I never really fit in anyways, so I stopped drinking all together. I never liked the taste or the effects. Even a small amount of alcohol upsets my stomach so I see no reason to spend good money to make myself ill for the entertainment of others. Nowadays, I avoid places that seem to exist solely to serve alcohol, except for pool halls. I enjoy playing pool enough, and the scene is socially isolated enough, that I will endure these places just so I can play. I do order a drink when I am there though- a rum and coke, hold the rum!

Pretty much the same reasons, though I will have the occasional glass of brandy or after dinner wine. What makes me sad and distressed is when someone you care about is trapped by alcohol, and though you'd like to still be close to them, you can't because of the addiction and behaviors.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only person who HATES alcohol. I won't even touch cough syrup with alcohol in it and I hate that it's okay to have bars everywhere in North America but fast food places are evil. You need to eat to live but you can survive without alcohol, but society acts like it's the other way around. I hate that there are people who drive drunk, thinking it actually MAKES them better at driving and that there are even doctors or surgeons drinking booze "to calm their nerves". What a stupid world.

On holiday occasions my mother will usually serve wine with the family meal, but I never have any. She says a glass of wine is supposed to help you digest your food but how can that be when alcohol irritates your stomach lining and can make you throw up? I just don't get it.

Alcohol actually stops the conversion of food into usable energy for your body, so you store it as fat while your liver works to metabolize the alcohol first.

I feel the exact same way about alcohol as the OP. I can have a glass or two of wine with dinner-- maybe like 3x per year or so-- but other than that, I hate, hate, hate it. I can't stand the smell of it on someone's breath; I don't go to bars; I don't make nice with alcoholics; I stay away from parties.

I felt compelled to post because the OP actually helped me recognize WHY I don't like alcohol. I always knew I hated to be around drunk people, but I never realized it was because alcohol exacerbates all those NT qualities that I cannot deal with well as an Aspie (the touchy-feely, the small talk, the lack of personal space, etc.). Thank you for helping me figure this out! I never understood why being around alcohol drove me nuts but being around Cannabis didn't-- and now I know, as being around people who are on MJ does not tend to result in any of the alcohol-induced behaviors that you mentioned. I always thought I was a hypocrite or something; I had not thought about it from this perspective. I'm newly diagnosed, so I hope that I am able to experience more of these moments of awareness through continued participation in this web site.

My husband is a recovering alcoholic... I used to be ok with being around people drinking (and used to drink to excess myself, in a much younger, "desperate to please" phase), but when we met and got serious and his alcoholism caused major issues between us, I became seriously aversive to being around people drinking. It fills me with all kinds of anxiety now... I absolutely hate it. If it's my family having some wine that's fine, but if it's a peer-group-type, drink-for-fun...hello anxiety attack. I'm not really even sure why this is... it's like I now associate all of those horrible feelings from that dark period of time to anyone drinking now.

Well, this topic took off while I was away concentrating on uni exams. Thanks for all the replies. It's interesting to read other people's experiences.

And Lemert: glad I could help.