This is My Life

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Hi, I'm August and I'm an alcoholic.

By the time I was 15 years old, I had dropped out of school and was actively using drugs and drinking. Even when I was younger I would go to parties on weekends.

Don't ask what brought it on, because I couldn't exactly tell you. Alcohol has always been there. People drank around me while I was growing up, and a couple of the guys my mom dated had drinking issues.

I had a rough childhood. My dad wasn't around and my mom did her best to take care of us best as she could. She made mistakes sometimes of course, but we all do.

I was overweight and I got picked on in school a lot. I wasn't a 'cool' kid. I only had about a handful of friends.

I met my dad for the first time when I was 10 years old. That's also when my dad bought me a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice Green Apple. That was my first drink.