I Didn’t Like Who I Was Drunk

Kelly Tompkins
3 min readJun 18, 2024

But I’m not sure who I am, sober.

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Being an alcoholic is time consuming, and it especially was for me. I didn’t need to figure out how to occupy my time, alcohol decided everything for me. Waking up meant deciding how early was too early to start drinking. In the worst of it, it made sense for me to start drinking as early as possible so that I could recover for the next day. Every hour of my days were spent…

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Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.