anybody told you not to give into peer pressure though you were going to do it

I would like to hear your stories. One time this girl I wanted to date and still want to told me not to give in before the club and almost killed the experience for me was not about to smoke, which I don't like. And can we get 22 posts on here at least?

I'm having a hard time understanding what the OP is asking...

I believe he's asking if we have ever been told that doing something is wrong, but we did it anyway. *shrugs*

I was told to avoid porn. I still watch it anyway.

This may not be peer pressure, but I grew up with my mom calling horror movies sick and disgusting. She forbade me to watch them, I watched them anyway. She didn't allow me to see Jurassic Park, so when I was 11 I went to a friend's house and he turned it on. I also have an extensive horror movie collection, and watch horror movies on Netflix, all of which she doesn't know about.

I would have missed out on a lot if I had been a good son, and listened to my mom.

Oh, going back to peer pressure, I've been at parties where a joint has been passed around, and I just pass it on down. I don't and will never do drugs. Prescription drugs are bad enough.

Well then. I was told to not question, and to just follow. But I couldn't just do that. Oh well.

I've been thinking about it all day, and couldn't come up with much. I never cared enough about what other people thought to give in to peer pressure. If someone told me what I should do, I listened, but made up my own mind. Any mistakes that I've made, (and I've made some freakin big ones) were my own.

In high school I beat up this dude, and I knew it was wrong. A few other people told me it was wrong too. I just thought he was a little punk who needed some sense knocked into him, but it wasn't a fair fight. I found out later that he was being abused at home. That's all he needed, me to beat him up more.

I still feel bad about that. I wish I could blame peer pressure.

A little bit off topic, I think, but, has anyone found that not giving in to peer pressure has made fitting in, and making friends, a lot harder?

I've been told at various times that I should get drunk, and use social drugs, because, well, it's considered social to do so. Yet I have no interest in doing either. Now, that's my choice, that I have made for my own reasons, and I stick by my decision. Yet, to a certain extent, it feels like I get punished for making up my own mind ...

Cucuboth said:

A little bit off topic, I think, but, has anyone found that not giving in to peer pressure has made fitting in, and making friends, a lot harder?

I've been told at various times that I should get drunk, and use social drugs, because, well, it's considered social to do so. Yet I have no interest in doing either. Now, that's my choice, that I have made for my own reasons, and I stick by my decision. Yet, to a certain extent, it feels like I get punished for making up my own mind ...

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I get that. No one tells me that I should drink, but I live in a small town. People drink here for fun, because there's not much else to do. When I got off of work last friday, a couple of people invited me for a drink and I said no. I don't want to drink or hang out at a bar, but at the same time I feel like I missed out on getting to know my coworkers better.

Cucuboth said:

Yet, to a certain extent, it feels like I get punished for making up my own mind ...

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What if you don't see it as a punishment? See it as independence or uniqueness in a positive way. You stand out, you have your own identity and way of doing things.