Provoke your friends and see what happens.

For a full autumn, I was on medication that didn’t mix well with alcohol. Since I'm in a band and my friends went pubbing a lot; I didn’t stop going out, however, I was completely sober. The most common scenario was the following:

22:00 - We get there. A and B ask if I’ll have a drink and I say that I’d like an non-alcoholic alternative. No one reacts. Nobody thinks it’s weird.

23:30 - B wonder if I can’t just have one beer. I say no. He’s a little annoyed and goes dancing to a song I’ve never heard. I'm a bit tired.

00:15 - A arrives and asks if I'm ashamed of her for drinking. I say no, get a bit annoyed, then I go urinate. I buy another non-alcoholic drink with orange juice in. I feel rejuvenated.

01:30 - B comes and pushes me and stares me in the eye and says with a slurred voice that I have no right to think that I’m better than someone else just because I don’t drink and he’s sure as hell not out every night but when he is maybe he likes to have a few beers and I’m not to fucking stand in a corner taunting him the entire evening, just because I'm fucking stuck-up.

01:32 - I go home.