How do you react to peer pressure?

Dis · January 16, 2003, 23:36

I'm usually an invidual thinker, but I admit peer pressure gets the best of me sometimes.

Jon Miller · January 16, 2003, 23:40

I am rarely, but it can get to me at times.

Jon Miller

Nubclear · January 16, 2003, 23:48

I'm never influenced by peer pressure. Largely because I never had any (well, much).

Dr. Nick · January 16, 2003, 23:48

Rarely gets me. But sometimes its unavoidable.

Ted Striker · January 16, 2003, 23:50

Pressure in any form will make me very hostile and inaccessible towards the offending party. So I react to it but in the opposite way.

orange · January 16, 2003, 23:53

almost never...i can't even think of a time when it has...if I'm against something, i don't do it. If I'm for something, I'll do it. And I stick up for others when they're being wronged, even if it goes against the majority.

Thrawn05 · January 17, 2003, 00:08

I react violently towards Peer Pressure, hence the many times I've sat in Detention, which I didn't mind, I got all my work done... to the point where the director gave me some nifty books to read.

Jon Miller · January 17, 2003, 00:08

I had a drink of alcohol once because of peer pressure (I don't drink, think it is a bad idea)

Jon Miller

Dis · January 17, 2003, 00:14

I got in fights, drank, smoke pot, and a few other things I better not post here

Getting in fights is the hard one to avoid for me. Esp. as a kid. When I'm one of 2 kids getting in each other's face, it's hard not to get in a fight when all the other kids are cheering you on. Actually some have had good effects. I never really had a problem with bullies after I won my first fight. I would have never taken the first punch if I didn't have people egging me on.

loinburger · January 17, 2003, 00:19

Mostly peer pressure just reinforces whatever I'm currently doing. Sort of a "You think I should change because you say so? Well, **** you and die" kinda deal. Or (when peer pressure is trying to get me to do something that I'm already doing) a "You approve of what I'm doing? Well, I'm very happy for you" kinda deal.

Dr. Nick · January 17, 2003, 00:21

I'm quite happy I resisted drinking till I felt like it, and smoking... well, I'm never going to smoke so let's just leave it at that.

Inverse Icarus · January 17, 2003, 00:46

I am rarely influenced by peer pressure.

i suffer from social anxiety, so i don't get into many suitations where i am influenced. sometimes though, my small group forces me to do things i dont want to (ski trips, etc). does that count?

The Mad Monk · January 17, 2003, 00:50

I got rid of my peers.

Kingof the Apes · January 17, 2003, 01:01

Usually on small issues, such as, "This is a great game! You should play it!"

On bigger issues, such as "marijuana sure is niiiiice" I usually shy away.

Urban Ranger · January 17, 2003, 01:01

I am rarely influenced by peer pressure. When that happens, it's in a negative manner, a la loinburger.

Skanky Burns · January 17, 2003, 01:03

I laugh at people and tell them to **** off. But in a friendly way.
I'm a stubborn bastard, so if I don't want to do something, I won't.

Kramerman · January 17, 2003, 01:15

My friends just quit trying to get me to smoke (all sorts of crazy stff) and drink after a very short while, as they had some respect for me. God knows they tried, but they stopped just short of the insult phase ("come on pusy... fag! do it!..."). now they leave me alone when they go to parties on the weekends so i can play video games and watch star trek re-runs by myself! all night long...

[and train my mind and body in unarmed combat, knife tricks, and riflery...]

When others that i know less have tried to peer pressure me, i tend to react with irritation at first, and then violently if they persist.

Kman

loinburger · January 17, 2003, 01:26

I'm surprised at the number of people who mention drug use as one of the things on which their peers try to exert pressure. A fair number of my friends smoke pot (and one or two do a bit more besides), but none of them has ever (in my memory) tried to pressure me into joining them in their endeavours.

The only two things that I remember being pressured over in recent memory (i.e. within the past four-or-five years) are my clothes ("You dress like a slob! A very comfortable slob, granted, and a very economical slob, true, but a slob nonetheless!") and my choice in parking spaces ("No, you must drive around for ten minutes looking for a better space, that way we can walk twenty fewer yards!"). Both were definite "**** you and die" situations.

Back when they used to have all of those "Resist the peer pressure, don't do drugs" Public Service Announcements, where child actors would pull their "If you don't do drugs then you're not cool!" or "What are you, chicken?" schtick, I'd always just sit there wondering, "Who the hell are these kids, and why have I never met them?" I still haven't met them. Maybe I've got "NARC" written on my forehead or something...

Jon Miller · January 17, 2003, 01:36

well, I have not been pressured heavily to use pot (some slight pressure)

and I was not pressured to drink until last year

so as a sophmore in college I would have agreed with you

Jon Miller

devilmunchkin · January 17, 2003, 01:38

i rebel

Pekka · January 17, 2003, 02:16

When I was a kid, it was affecting me a bit. Not very much, but I based some of my opinions on what other thought. Now if someone tries the same thing on me, I retaliate by doing the exact opposite to a point where it's still not too childish

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Sava · January 17, 2003, 02:17

I hate people, I don't care what they think... so peer pressure is irrelevant.