THIS. I quit drinking a few years ago and it was the hardest time of my life. Not because, I was having booze withdrawl, but because I didn't know how to be a person.
Most of my interactions with other people involved getting obliterated so I was never able to really by myself around other people.
First become a real person and develop a healthy coping mechanism for stress. THEN, maybe, think about getting your drink on.
If you drink too early in life and too often you might become a complete social retard like I did.
I agree with you in many respects, but it also made me think about the flip side, which is not getting drunk because you want to talk to other people, but getting drunk because you want to talk to yourself.
I would say that drinking early does not on the whole make someone a social retard, given the patterns of alcohol consumption among the communities generally deemed to be sociable, but two of the most useful things I ever learned was how to have a good night in a pub while sober and how to have a good night on my own while drunk.
Most of my interactions with other people involved getting obliterated so I was never able to really by myself around other people.
First become a real person and develop a healthy coping mechanism for stress. THEN, maybe, think about getting your drink on.
If you drink too early in life and too often you might become a complete social retard like I did.