i don’t know what younger person needs to hear this, but it is so valid to not want to drink alcohol at all, or to only want to drink very rarely. don’t let others pressure you into joining in with those societal rituals. it is an outrage how normalized drinking alcohol is, to the point that those who choose to abstain are constantly forced to justify their private choices, be publicly questioned about what led to these choices or excluded from activities altogether. you do not ever need to justify your reasons for this. there are absolutely valid and important reasons to not drink, and nobody has a right to know your personal reasonings.
whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”
And the sad thing about “feel for lumps” is that a lump could be a mammary gland and not an actual tumor and it could have a negative impact where the person could start having a panic attack from thinking that they have a tumor when really it’s just a milk dud (know from experience)
