By and large the only people that pay attention to my drinking, eg lack thereof, are people doing the quick mental calculation of what 20% of overpriced retail alcoholic beverages per serving are. AKA waiters and waitresses, and they don't care that "i'm" not drinking , just that the bill will be less than they expected. And I have never experienced anything other than "Is coke ok ?"(coz I ask for Pepsi first
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Sure friends and family noticed that drinking was something that stopped for me and the first time or two when at a function it was mentioned, but only because it was 'different'. Now there is a new 'different', well not really I'm a nondrinker and that is not going to change, only the AV will harp on the selfconsciousness of the 'newness' of being a nondrinker. Recognize the feeling of 'hating it' and then dismiss it with 'whatevers' the feeling and the AV will fade away, starve it out.