I started as a "social drinker" in my teenage years. Drinking on the weekends or whenever we got together for a goodtime.
On some level, I always knew I liked alcohol and its effects a little differently than most people.
I was the one who drank until there was nothing left. I was the one who drank, not to relax or "take the edge off", but to get drunk.
I never knew what it meant to have a couple and just stop.
Then I became the ultimate binge drinker and would go 7-8 days w/ straight drinking. The first thing I did when I woke up and the last thing I did before I passed out. Then not drink for about a week or so.
Maybe it was because its what I went through, but to me, binge drinking is worse.
Actually, scratch that. No one way is worse or better.
They both lead down the same path in the end....the road to misery.