r/straightedge

Hey! Came by, I’ve been in this group for a good while, have known many many SxE folks in my local scenes and love many many SxE bands.
I’m now 5 months sober from alcohol and even longer from everything else!
Just wanted to drop by to say this, also that I won’t be claiming edge because yall are a bunch of fucking nerds, but still enjoy the music, friends, and love!
I’ll be an ally at most.
Anyways have a good one nerds.

im curious about other sxe people acquiring narcan training and furthering the fight to help get people off the streets. i live in a city where the opioid epidemic is worse than ever before... i find theres far too much judgement towards those who use.

reminder that we are all closer to being impoverished and sickly than we may think. to be able to be sober and well is a privilege, thankful to have not been belted down by addiction but we rlly gotta help more people get to a better place in a meaningful way yknow?

Hello! I am new in the straight edge community and I wanna learn more about the music. I have listened to Minor Threat and Earth Crisis, but I don’t know any other straight edge classic bands. May you recommend me some?

For context, I’m a straight edge dude from the middle of nowhere. I travel for shows, but I don’t have friends in any scenes so knowing what’s going on IN THE SCENES isn’t on my radar.

Anyways, I went to Skatopia’s Bowl Bash a few weeks ago. There’s a lot of recreational drug use and I didn’t want to be bothered by people asking or peddling to me so I put some X’s on my hands.

Met this band from Georgia and they saw the X’s and asked if I was straight edge and I told them yes. They suddenly looked a little uneasy and asked if I was “on sight”. I got confused and they asked “if I smoke right now, are you going to try and fight me”. I told them no and asked why would I. They told me that the entire scene they’re in is full of “on sight” dudes who will fight you if they see you smoking or drinking.

I know that type of attitude was big in the 90s but is it still prevalent today?

My dad broke a glass bottle on me and some of it dropped all over me

Looking for something new in my listening lineup. Trying to find something in the metal/metal adjacent genres to scratch that itch. Opeth, Lamb of God, BTBAM, Ion Dissonance, and similar.

I was thinking about this lately because another person i had known to be kinda vocal about being straight edge has removed it from their social media bios.
I started claiming edge when i was like 16/17 and am 31 now and i think that pretty much every edge friend ive had throughout my life isnt straight edge now.
What was the reason that you or anyone you know have given for not continuing to be straight edge?

Being vulnerable here bc this is about me and i know some of yall are evil asf BUT anyways i first claimed edge when i was 21 and was kinda vindictively straight edge (annoying and self righteous) about it the whole time (2 and a half years) and this girl i was dating broke up with me after a year bc she said that i couldn’t get on with her and her friends well enough bc i wouldn’t drink with them or hang around at all while they were doing coke and i also had many fights with her about not letting her or her friends drink and drive.

Cut to about a month or so after we broke up i started convincing myself (stupidly i know) that the straight edge version of myself was worse for me and lost me my gf and our mutual friends, and decided (very impulsively after hanging out with her and her friend group at a punk show at the skate park) that if i broke edge i would be less annoying and get her back. So i smoked weed

Cut to again about 2 more years later after habitually smoking weed pretty much all day every day since breaking and hating myself the whole time and always thinking i wanted to stop but also being very dependent on weed that whole time, until edge day of this previous year i just quit cold turkey and decided that i dont care what other people think and i can be straight edge again if i want and “if youre not now you never were” means that since i am now im still as valid as i want to be.

Im much less annoying about it now and keep it more to myself and is more for me than anyone else only my close friends and family know about my decision to reclaim roughly 250 days ago so what do you guys think? Am i just chopped and should end it and never call myself edge again? Is reclaiming a false flag even if im much more content in my decision and less insecure about it than i was before? (No responses to this will affect my decision to call myself straight edge i just wanna know what u guys think LMFAO i know yall aren’t the council and its a personal decision but still)

TLDR; broke edge after 2.5 years, weed addict for 2 years, reclaimed 8 months ago should i unsubscribe from edge Reddit or am i okay?

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Hi. I wanted to ask if any of you have had friends who were not straight edge who thought you were trying to act better, and then seemed more eager to be intoxicated when the occasion was there?

I've griped before and I'll gripe again, the amount of people vaping and smoking cigarettes, weed, etc at outbreak this weekend has been ridiculous the place fucking stinks, it's a shame that hardcore nowadays is just flooded with this shit, I know it was always there to some degree but it's just feels on another level