CAPTAINZING2000

I started drinking at a very early age. my drinking habits at an early age had me trying to out drink my peers. needless to say, I always kept up that drinking pattern.
I'm wondering what the average posters drinking was like.

Pagekeeper

Had my first drink at age 10 or 11 (three wine coolers) and LOVED how it made me feel. Stared drinking regularly at the age of 13. First alcohol-related driving offense at age 16. I blew .08 and at the time it was under the legal limit so I didn't get a DUI, just probation. Drinking nearly every day by the age of 18. Continued for more than a miserable decade.

I admire people who get sober early. The only difference, as I see it, between me and a "One chip wonder" is that they were willing to go to any lengths from the get-go and I wasn't.

FuzzyFatSacks

The first time I got drunk I was 14, but I didn't start regularly drinking until I was 18ish. I always hung out with a party crowd and regular drinking (getting completely and totally trashed) was usually five times a week. Drinking alone didn't begin until 22ish and that didn't become a nightly thing until I was maybe 25.

rws177

I had my first beer at 12yrs old, start drinking regularly at the age of 16, it seems like everyone had there first so young, scary!!

FBL

Age 14.

CAPTAINZING2000

I've not met too many alcoholics that, started drinking later in life. A few but not too many started early or by legal drinking age.

The people I have met like that seemed to drink like they had to catch up with the rest of us though

Texasblind

I started late, in relation, at age 18. Was relatively sober (social drinker) during all my 20's, fell completely into addiction at age 30. I'm 34 and sober now.

penny74

About 18.. and l was late..
But when l did start it was like a pro..

tallcactus

Can't remember the age my Dad would give me a little glass of beer, when he would grab a beer after coming home from work.
On my conscience own, I think I was 14 or 15. I did not become a problem drinker till late 30's after a divorvce. I guess I'm emotional stuck at that early age per the alcohol evaluation.

Love all these polls, Capt. I can see similarities and differences between all of us. Quite a learning experience.

pinkgurl87

I started drinking at age 19- which is legal here in Canada. It was weird I was a good kid in highschool but once I started drinking it messed me up. I moved out and was drinking all the time with people , and buying my own alcohol. I never got into drinking to bad, but I definately crave it and if I drink it definately leads to other stuff like using drugs.

NEOMARXIST

14

DayWalker

I never really drank until I was 21. before 21 I only drank maybe 3 times...once when a kid in High School stole one of his ol' mans fifth of Southern Comfort and I hade a few big swigs out of that. And then about two other times when my sister gave me a few wine coolers. But never really started what I would call "drinking" until my 21st B day....and I was a full blown alcoholic by the time I was 22

Steve

aasharon90

Exposed to alcohol probably
while in my mom's stomach.

Exposed to alcohol since
infancy.

Liquor cabinet excessable
but fear kept me out.

First drunk and hangover
in 9th grade.

Slow progression till on my
own at 19.

Continue and rapid progression
till Aug 1990. 30ish

19yrs sober now at 51.

Ceres

13 Years of age seems to be the magic number I hear most often. It's how old I was.

ferrari355

17, but was a very moderate drinker until 21 or so.

loveon2legs

I was 13..new year's eve...

mirage

14 here. Playing quarter bounce at parties..shots..etc. Got a bottle of JD for my 16th. I'm just starting to look at all this now. Yikes..I think my issues are more troubling than I'm lettin on to myself.

Hoper

15...I was the dork kid who did not fit in with any group. Cheated one of the popular kids through 7th grade and got invited to a party, peer pressured into it and a whole new persona was born, had to drink till drunk every time I partied to be "fun". I met a lot of people and that has taken me to a spot where I have a bright future...Alcohol helped get me there...Now I have been strugguling 4 years to get rid of the alcoholism because it is starting to take all that away and now I am depressed all the time out of guilt. Since I decided to seriously go the distance and try anything...even "exposing" (thats how it felt the first day) my self to an AA group I am quite happy just out of the thought of living without booze! Sorry to ramble....

jdaly08307

15 as well, my sister's college party, talked into it by my sisters Brazilian husband. Pinched her friend's buttock that night...so I guess two bad habits started that night.

yeahgr8

I start drinking heavy at 17.

I first got drunk at 8...i was sneaking unfinished drinks at a dinner party, they put me to bed and i fell down the stairs with a pillow i had fallen in love with and proceeded to tell everyone that the pillow was a girl i had a crush on at school.

On the drive home, remember im 8, i said we should all go the pier arcade to play the machines, my mother said why on earth would they take me in that state so i called her a ****, got a smack and fell asleep in the back of the car with my pillow...