EP 352: Reader Question - Am I going to be the butt of jokes?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How do you go from being the drinker who used to poke fun at non-drinkers to the non-drinker afraid of being the butt of the drinkers’ jokes? What can you do to avoid being perceived as a hypocrite if you speak up when people think they’re being funny at your expense? Annie Grace shares her wisdom and advice in today’s episode.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hey, it's Annie Grace. I hope everybody's doing awesome. So I have a question here.
0:33.1	A reader's question, they wrote in and they said in the past, I've been part of every conversation
0:38.6	poking fun at those who don't partake in drunken gatherings. Now that I'm sober, I'm dreading
0:44.5	these get-togethers, although they'll be smaller due to COVID. I know I'll be the butt of jokes
0:48.5	this time, but I also feel like if I speak up, it will make me a hypocrite since I was
0:52.0	always laughing with them. Okay, so this is such a good question. First of all, what I would
0:57.2	do is I would write down all of the possible jokes that you used to make and that could
1:02.0	be made. And I would look at them and feel them and try to release your defensiveness around
1:08.0	it, because it's so natural, especially when we've made a change and we realized we're
1:12.4	wrong and we're trying to protect something new, it's so natural to just try to make the
1:16.2	other side and the other thing wrong. And I think that's really natural, but if you can
1:20.4	do this, if you can kind of like take everything you can possibly imagine that they would say
1:24.7	at this gathering, like whatever they would say. I remember I used to always say, oh, I
1:28.5	don't trust people who don't drink, you know, those people, blah, blah, blah, or, you know,
1:32.2	they're too good for us or whatever the case is. And there was all of this stuff and a lot
1:35.8	of it was coming out of my own desire to justify my own drinking. And then realize, try
1:41.8	to get back in touch with where you were at the time that you were saying these things
1:48.6	and making fun of it and try to get in touch with the underlying thing. Was it that you
1:52.8	just wanted to go with the crowd and you wanted to say what everybody else was saying and
1:56.2	you wanted to chime in where they were chiming in? Was it something else where you actually
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