How did you start drinking alcohol?

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I started at the tender young age of 7. One day, my dad was drinking and he gave me a water diluted alcoholic beverage. It tasted like water because it was too diluted. During parties at our house my dad and the others drink on a table and me and my cousins play pretending to be drunk, we thought it was funny and we laughed a lot. When I was ten at a party at my cousins, it was like a big reunion, All my cousins have gathered in a table and my dad gave us a few bottles of alcoholic beverages, some were hard drinks like rum and brandy. We shared it, passed it around, everybody got at least a shot. In high school, I was a freshman at the time, I was on the basketball team. After games, we celebrate, usually on weekends, during those celebrations we drink. Yes, and I was 11 at that time. Then it became a habit and when we have money we buy alcohol. We talk about things in school, how to avoid the cops, things on the news, play basketball, video games, watch a movie, ride motorcycle, it was all stupid. When I was 14, I got drunk really bad, I think it was the first time I got drunk, that I can't walk in a straight line. I had a hangover the next day and it was horrible and many things happened the night i was drunk that my parents got really worried. It was bad. I felt really sick all day, I want to throw up, cluster headaches, and the alcohol wreaking out of my mouth. After my first hangover I backed up a little, and watch how much alcohol i drink and made sure i was drinking enough water. Then my family moved here in US. The drinking habit of mine stop because the alcohol is expensive and the rules here are more strict. I can't buy alcohol because i'm under the age of 21.