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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 2476737" data-attributes="member: 24357">Can’t.  Both my parents are alcoholics, as was my Grandfather and Grandmother.  Its pretty near to being fact that alcoholism is genetic.  My truth- I started drinking at five- little sips here and there, stolen from parents and friends of my parents.  By twelve my parents taught me to make Screw Drivers, by fifteen there weren’t many drinks I couldn’t make, and by seventeen I realized that my father’s drinking was a real serious problem and that I should quit before I became like him.Mind you during the years between twelve and seventeen, if I wanted to drink I could.  By sixteen I could drink just about of my dad's drinking buddies under the table.Finally in the end I quit- cold turkey.  A few months later Dad asked- “why did you quit drinking,” I was seventeen going on eighteen when we had this talk.I looked him in the eyes and said as clearly as I could- “because I do not want to be like you,” turn and walked away.  He has been clean and sober for near seventeen years now, because I said that to him.BTW- your poll should reflect those that have stopped, or those that want to but can't.</blockquote>