To expect my DD will try drugs?

[Roxietrees]

Not really an AIBU question but didn’t know where else to put it. Was just reading another thread and it got me thinking (maybe MN isn’t the best test group for this question but we’ll see!) I feel like back in the day on crime drama type tv shows where some young person goes missing the parents would always say to the police “no our son/daughter would never touch drugs, not in a million years, they’re not like that” or whatever. But these days you don’t get those kind of lines in the same types of tv shows (not that I’ve seen anyway, I might be wrong) and I’m wondering whether that’s because the attitude around drugs has shifted and it’s become more socially acceptable than it was early late 90s/early 2000s? I did a load of drugs in my teens and early 20s (early 2000s) so did almost everyone I know, and we’re all pretty normal, well-adjusted, successful people. My DD is still very young but I fully expect her to experiment with drugs as a teenager, I feel like it’s a right of passage. I just want to educate her about the dangers and discourage her but at the end of the day she’s going to make her own mind up. I’m just wondering if other people expect that their kids will try drugs or do you feel certain they won’t? If so why?

Yeah they hid them sooo well I never even seen them being taken at house parties or when I went to the toilets with them in clubs and concerts or on holiday in shared apartments/hotel rooms. 😣😂 seriously though It just shows people will judge others by their own behaviours and assume because they’re doing something everyone else.

It really wasn’t the done thing in any of the friendship circles I’ve been in to take drugs and I’m so glad that was the case. I am massively anti-drugs.

And before anyone says my anti-drug stance is why my friends hid their coke snorting ways from me it’s not necessarily something I used to talk about in my 20s so many wouldn’t even have known . Additionally I wasn’t keen on other things that are part of some of their lifestyles but they freely told me about those things.

Honestly I’d have been the worst person to be friends with for a drug user 😂 so I’m sure any I met would’ve just ditched me rather than taken the trouble to hide their habits and have mostly drug-free nights for several years.

Sounds like you guys have a lovely relationship where she’s really open and honest. She sounds great