It's great to read Starty...I'm sure many moons ago I may have known some of that but to read it on a timeline is so interesting.
Here's one for all of ye....would anyone have known from virtually that first drink that your relationship with alcohol was somehow 'different' to others?
In my case..I would have had my first drink..knacker drinking we call it round our parts..as in...on a beach..in a ditch...back of the disco...wherever..when I was about 15. I LOVED it...my personality blossomed and for the first time in my young life I felt like I fitted.
Fast forward without any major incidents...to my 20's...young babies..my own house...Joe making home brew..no limit to bottles or amounts.. house parties all the time...Happy out..no major incidents.
30's...stopped making home brew....sort of shocked how much we could drink when it was limited to bottles...still no major incidents...40's the same...no...I lie...night of the millennium I was 44..having a party and dying sick with real flu...went to bed..left them at it.. Next morning got up bout 11an...looked around at the mess...then had a major incident....picked up a half empty bottle of wine and drank a glass..
KNEW it would get me through ...and it did.. just the one glass..and didn't drink before noon again for maybe 5 years....but the 'solution' was in my head.
Fast forward to my 50's. ...the shit hit the fan...my solution brought me here!!!!
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