Not quite sure why I get upset when deeply asked why I don\\’t drink.<\/p>\n
Maybe it all started with moral superiority. That I preferred to be up front with the truth without anything else clouding my judgement. That I was already blunt and honest. And that I was terrorized when I was younger for being different.<\/p>\n
But I am different. And it\\’s that problem that I have issues with. Because by being different that means that I risked many things. It meant that I couldn\\’t go to happy hours without being bothered. I couldn\\’t deal with the college parties because I wouldn\\’t be holding a red cup. But then at the same time, I really wanted to be part of that. I wanted to say \\”let\\’s wash all that away with this drink.\\”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not quite sure why I get upset when deeply asked why I don\\’t drink. Maybe it all started with moral superiority. That I preferred to be up front with the truth without anything else clouding my judgement. That I was already blunt and honest. And that I was terrorized when I was younger for being … Continue reading Still not drinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}