Does anyone here not drink alcohol?

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Where I live, the legal age for buying wine, beer or cider with a meal in a licensed premises (pub or restaurant) is 16.
Where I live, the legal age for buying alcohol in a shop is 18.

You may be challenged to prove your age if you look under 21, however if you can prove it, you may certainly buy alcohol, legally, as a teenager.

In reality, these ages mean nothing as if younger teenagers want to drink alcohol they will find a way to get it. As is very often the case.

Oh and the legal age for consumption of alcohol (not buying it) is 5 - i.e. parents could give children a glass of wine with a meal as young as age 5....

I'm 17.

I think that's the way it is here as well.

Well thank you so much for all those posts. They were very helpful. I'll find a way around it.

I hope it goes well for you.

Go to your first-aid kit and sniff the wipes. The go to the brandy and sniff that. "Why are people drinking this?! ! lol."

Although there are religous reasons for me, I imagine without such moral guidelines, that I would have had a sensory issue against alchohol.

I would have liked to participate in that study

I used to drink alcohol before however i don't drink alcohol at the moment because i am on my medication also my doctor advised me not to mix alcohol with my medication at present.

I don't!

I also don't do drugs, drink tea or coffee, and I don't eat meat/fish/or eggs.

The underlined part is because of my religion, and the rest is all my choice

I cant drink because I have life threatening seizures if I do, also I dont like the taste of alcohol...it burns my tongue more than overly minty toothpaste does.
The thought of drinking rotted food grosses me out completely
I like being in full control of what mind I do have; anything that lessens this control makes me very nervious
I hate what alcoholism does to families that lasts for generations.
There is a special brand of dysfuction that comes from the alcoholic family dynamic that is much more toxic than alcohol's effect on the body....nobody in such a family can escape it.
so I really dont like alcohol, but when I am with friends I drink a non alcoholic drink and tell them that ya'll can drink...I will record the damage. I am usually the one who tells them the next day what they did when they were drunk...and some of what they didn't do

I don't, not only because it's illegal for my age, but I just don't want to. I could easily go downstairs and sneak a beer right now and nobody would ever know, but I'm not going to do that. I have no interest in getting myself wasted. I've been around drunk people before, and I have had many opportunities to have a drink myself, but I don't care if I don't have a drink at all. I have absolutely no desire to consume alcoholic beverages.

I just hate it when my mom says things like "I'm not old enough to drink." That's bullcrap. It's things like that that make me want to have a drink just to prove a point. My decision not to drink is mine, not hers.

techically the only person too young to consume alcohol is an infant who cant open a container of alcohol and drink it. But you are under the legal drinking age, that doesn't mean you cant do it.

I never had the desire to drink to GET DRUNK/WASTED. I actually wanted to have my first taste of alcohol after turning 21. However, when I had a brain seizure, my doctor instructed me to abstain from alcohol and avoid mixing my anti-seizure medication with alcohol. I currently don't feel the urge to drink alcohol.

but I don't drink alcohol and don't plan to ever do so.

So my question is, what is the best thing I can do...? Isn't that gonna be strange when I'm the only one who isn't drinking alcohol?[/quote]

Don't change your standards. Whatever you do, keep your standards of not drinking.

Urm.

Why can't you just order a Coke?

Or a virgin mixed drink?

Or not get anything at all if you'd prefer to just enjoy her conversation?

Just go out with her, order a non-alcoholic drink, and explain your reasons if asked. It won't be a huge deal.

Say your going to be the DD lol.

Its okay not to order anything.

I HATE alcohol!! I hate the taste and I won`t drink! I`m apposed to it really! I don`t understand why people are so into drinking either! Whenever my NT friends turned 21 they were all so psyched and so happy they could finally legally drink and I never understood why! What is the big deal??? It doesn`t make u cool! I wouldn`t want a hangover either! I always felt like the only one who didn`t care about drinking and turning 21, in fact I wasn`t even happy about it! My brother never understood why I didn`t wanna drink, and I asked him why it was so important to him and why he wants me to drink, and he said it`s because most people are psyched when they turn 21, and I said well I`m not most people!