The lies I was told about alcohol

Kelly Tompkins
5 min readOct 14, 2019

I never should have believed them.

There are a lot of things that alcohol told me through the years. Now that I’ve been sober for a while, I know that most of those things aren’t true.

But it blows my mind how much movies, advertisements, even our modern culture not only normalizes alcohol but makes it seem really cool. As if you couldn’t be cool if you abstained from alcohol…

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Kelly Tompkins

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