Re: Immune to peer pressure

[billd]

realte to just_nemo……. yeah.

Friends? I’ve had a few over the years, they come and they go, most don’t last more than a few years, but it’s great for that time. (A few have lasted, but for moves, changes, etc. – there’s distance and other stuff in between.

The doctors, esp the two dealing with my ADHD, act like they think I’m lying through my teeth when I answer their questions:

A. any recreational drug use? No, never. “not even try”. Nope. “Never?” That’s right, never, not even a sample, a snort, sniff, lick or otherwise. None, zip, zilch, zero

B. alcohol use – how many drinks a month average? A year? Oh, maybe 6 or 8 a beers a year. “That’s it, take your time” No need, that’s it – I can keep track it’s so little. I have a glass of wine (or less) every few days, that’s it. It’s rare, and I have been “tipsy” maybe once in the last 3 or 4 years.

C. Smoke? Nope. “not at all?” Nope, not at all. “Ever?” I had one cigar, or rather part of one, back in the mid 1980s when a friend had a baby, and he handed out cigars at a big town celebration raising funds for the fire-fighters. I did it out of friendship and respect, and remembered why I never took up smoking, and never finished it.

I used to make tennis ball cannons and shoot them down the street at friends who also had one, shooting back our direction. They were made from beer cans taped together, and used lighter fluid as fuel, and shot balls a good block or so. My mother furnished some of the stuff to make them (except the beer cans – ours used soda cans)

She also furnished me bottle rockets, firecrackers, B-B guns, archery sets, etc. but do even a TINY amount of damage to someone’s property, and that was the end of life as I knew it, so was always careful not to abuse her allowing us to be kids.

Yeah, they had to fill their share of holes in the yard as I was certain there was something buried in the yard, like some pioneer or pirate had buried secrets out there, and I could dig clear to China if I kept digging long and deep enough.

>>I became more introverted as a teen, as I never felt like I fit in anywhere, though I never felt the urge to follow my peers in an effort to fit in better, as I felt that it wouldn’t make a difference so why bother. <<

Yes, that statement REALLY sums it up for me quite well. I could have written that myself if I had such writing talent.

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