sortofhomecomin

I never had a fake ID as didn't really start drinking until I entered the work-force at 20 or so (drinking age in Ireland is 18. I drank a bit at uni but not at excessive levels). I did experiment with making one though at 17: a friend told me that some pubs would accept copies of birth certificates as ID. So, he claimed, you could photocopy the birth cert, tip-ex out the last number in the year and handwrite in a year older than you were, photocopy again and presto!

I tried it but having looked at the result thought, nah, that looks so ridiculous no pub is going to accept it (plus I looked younger than my age back then. Not any more, unfortunately! )

rubythrill

33 female

Bunny211

34 Female.

I had the crappy fake ID. My cousin's stoner BF made it for me. It was an OHIO license (they were one of the last states to go to the digital IDs). My address said I lived at 420 Main Street Columbus, OH. 420...get it. Heh heh heh. It got taken away. I got another one. Rinse. Repeat. Til I was of age.

site1Q84

30 female. I started drinking when I was 13ish, but stopped and didn't drink again until I was 19 or so. Even back then I knew I couldn't control it! Never had a fake id though, just older friends haha

enfinthechange

42 female. .... started drinking at 17... always been a binger, drinking bits in between and lots at weekends at least once a month... been sober for times, longest 3 months, or 2 x 9 months if u count pregnancy !

enfinthechange

There's loads of 42s... we should like have a club!!!

BrickbyBrick83

That reminded me of the funniest sight in Indiana - I went to Bloomington uni for a year, as part of an exchange programme (I'm from the UK). The police there had a wall of the all the fake IDs they had confiscated. There were thousands! They named and shamed in the student paper as well, haha.

Fortunately (or not fortunately, depending on how you look at it!) I was 21 by the time I got there. They were definitely waaay stricter than where I grew up!

WhiskeyBent

Is 42 when the light finally goes on? Man I hope so.

Bubovski

I turned 75 yesterday so I guess I qualify for that elite 60 plus group

Delilah1

46 and female, it took me until I was 45 to finally get this right!

Bunny211

My first sponsor was 42 when she got sober!

aasharon90

I'm 58 born in 1958. Cool to say that.
Sobriety.... Aug. 11th 1990. Still young and
traveling slow and easy and keepin it simple.

CODad3

Seems to be a pretty even spread of ages here, that's great! 28 Here

steve-in-kville

I'll be 39 in two weeks. Already feel the mid-life crisis coming on!!

Outonthetiles

Pretty interesting age distribution. Very evenly distributed among three decades and then drops off at 60.

KAD

51. Interesting to see I'm in the largest group. I was 49 when I finally hit the lowest bottom I ever expected to see.

ardy

Hi all.. well I hit 67 this year.. born Aug 4 1950 .. had my biggest problems in 1980's.. going thru divorce and raising 3 kids on my own... no govt help back then.. helped to fight to have that changed for a lot of other families.. working hard on that fight to keep kids over 18 and in school or disabled on families health insurance until they are at least 26,,,, have been told 67 is the new 50

BarbieKen

I was just reading over all the posts here. I gave up and became willing 15 days after my 55th birthday ( November 12, 2012).

I never drank in my teens, got married to my first & only boyfriend at age 20 ( June 1977) we toasted to red fruit punch. Five years later, no kids, we divorced as friends, just too young.

Then in April 1988, at age 30. I married the love of my life Ken. It wasn't till after the birth of our only child Mark, that I began to drink. I had horrible clinical post partum depression. I wouldn't take the meds my doctor prescribed. I thought I'd found the solution ...Cabernet. From then on as the years went by my addiction to alcohol grew and grew.

This October I'll be 60, oh my god, that just can't be!! But, 15 days later I will get my 5 year chip. It took what it took to get into the rooms of recovery, and to find this site that helps save lives. Never, ever, ever too late to get sober and change your life.
Bobbi

TheLuckyCat

I'm 28 and i started when i was about 17.

I was never really abusing it until about 3 years ago.
However, i was never a good drinker.
I could never stop after a few. I always had to have enough to knock me out..

I think it's great that younger people have places like this to go to.

I can only imagine how hard it must have been for the older generation during their time with alcoholism..

With no internet and not half as much support and openness about the condition as there is now. It must have been really though.

Great admiration here .

puddlejumper70

I'm 46 but if I'm clean shaven people think I'm 10 years younger... even after years of drinking

To add to the fake ID stories, I recall a few guys I went to high school with mad a large, scale size version of a Missouri driver's license that they hung on the wall. People would then stand in front of the blue square in the corner and they would take a photo from a 35 mm camera set on a tripod. It would then be cut to size and laminated. This was in probably 1987-88, before they started making the digitally embossed ID's with the holograms. They looked really good.

I also knew another kid who at 18, looked like he was in his early twenties. He would go to the supermarket about 6 p.m. wearing a suit with the tie undone (like he just got off work), and a wedding band on his left hand. He would buy a bunch of alcohol but also include some baby food as well. Back then, you only had to "look" 21 to be carded, and the clerk would assume he was a married professional buying food for his baby so they would never card him.