Do you drink, and what are your thoughts on it?

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I like the taste of alcoholic beverages and drinks! I worked as a bartender for a long time and I've tried all sorts and kinds of them. But I have never been a heavy drinker and I never drink to get drunk. Now I rarely drink but I don't mind it or when others do as long as they don't act like an idiot or worse.

I don't, I'm almost of legal age. I have tried a few times and don't really care for it. I may try it again in college. I don't care about it enough to make a strategy to get someone to buy the alcohol, find a place to drink it, a place to spend the night/a way to get home, etc.

I used to drink mainly to get drunk [primary reason] and to relax [secondary reason] but I've now come to appreciate beers for their taste first and foremost, rather than their effects on me. I love drinking beer, although I don't drink as much anymore. I think drinking is fine in moderation, just like almost everything in life. I find people who take extremist views on alcohol rather scary.

I put no because I usually just get a headache, or my stomach gets sick. I do really enjoy beer but I'm giving it up for said reasons along with attempting to try out gluten free.

There are only a select few occasions of drinking ever where I felt it was enjoyable and no really bad comedown or aftereffects.

I drink a little, and I don't really have any thoughts on it. I enjoy red wine, but can't have very much or I get dizzy. But a little bit is nice and relaxes me.

Another thing I just thought of, I feel very reliant on the way I perceive things, and insist on things being "just right." So, if a drink would mess with my perceptions, then I'd probably just feel like sitting still until it wore off. For example, I wouldn't watch a movie I'd never seen before while under alcoholic influence, because I wouldn't like the thought that I would be perceiving it differently from how I would otherwise. I have to concentrate pretty hard to understand things, so if I ever drank, I imagine I'd just feel "stuck" and not wanting to do anything.

I'm over the legal age, but I believe in moderation of all things, and that especially includes alcohol.

I don't drink that often. It makes the inside of my nose hurt.

I do not drink so the NT people I know usually get me to be the designated driver to make sure they get home safe

Over the summer four years ago I drank a lot (not really a lot, but compared to before and since, it was a lot) because I was living with a partier and all my friends were in college and drinking/parties were the cool thing to do. I hadn't figured out who I was yet, and was still tending to mold my personality to match whoever was around me at the time, so I ended up drinking and partying and pretty much became a totally different person. It was fun to an extent, because I had the most friends I'd had in my life, and the alcohol took away some of my social problems, but it all felt a bit too fake. It just wasn't me at all. So I stopped. Unfortunately this meant I lost all my friends, but obviously they weren't real friends anyway.

All that said, I won't say no to a Growers Pomegranate Cider. Yum.