Why is being sober looked down on?

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I have no idea, but they started drinking pretty early in life and the step to harder stuff wasn't that huge.
We also used to gather at the central drug selling area in Stockholm.
In the crowd, at the time, it was highly accepted to take drugs, sniff glue and so on. I suspect some did it because of mental problems and some gathered mental problems because of the substances.

/Mats

I personally don't like the feeling of being drunk. I have a drink or two and if I go beyond that I usually start feeling pretty bad. I feel like I start withdrawing into myself. Senses get dull, and I start ruminating a good deal. I've definitely encountered some push back when I say I'm done drinking for the night. It's usually a pretty gentle "oh come on, just one more drink" kind of thing. It's a little annoying, especially when they keep going. But I recognize that I'm in the minority because I just don't get the positive effects of alcohol, and so I don't get drunk or see it as desirable. The majority of people see it differently, therefore people seeing my behavior is odd is understandable if not desirable.

But I don't really drink out with people that much. It's usually just a beer or two within my own home. Bars are too noisy and uncomfortable for me.

I don't drink a drop of alcohol ever but I do often feel that it contributes to having a limited number of friends. Other Aspies who I know that have the will power to force themselves to go to nightclubs and drink seem to have more (NT) friends and bigger social lives. It's so sad that drinking alcohol is a popular tool for making friends around here.

I felt left out at work before just because I don't drink. If I did drink, I would have been part of a group. I worked with 4 NT people all around my age, and all they did was make plans in front of me, which didn't all involve drinking, but they still left me out because of me not being a drinker. I think that if I was interested in getting drunk at weekends then I would have been included into the group.

I do feel that I missed out because of not drinking. Not so much now, because I'm in a relationship and have my own commitments but back when I was in the 18-25 age bracket I totally missed out on the fun that the majority of people that age have. It seems that almost everyone I know has crawled home from a pub drunk as a lord at some point in their lives. Not me. The only time I have ever almost crawled home was after being on a spinning fairground ride.

I used to drink all the time when i was young but it done me no good all it did was make dirty guys pass me around until I slept in nearly every adult guy's bed in london

ok slight exaggeration but it was still a lot but i was like an alcoholic but luckily i gave it all up when i got pregnant (unplanned pregnancy

i v never touched a drop of alcohol since

I don’t want to have the kind of “fun” people have in nightclubs.

I’m not going to endure the noise, smell, crowdedness of nightclubs just to make a few “friends.”

In my “progressive” high school, most kids were into drinking, smoking, sniffing, whatever.

I probably had few friends because I refused to drink. I didn’t give a rat’s ass about that.