I 18m have these 2 friends I’ll call Alex and Ben. We were going out that night with friends for someone’s birthday, was half day at school so it was like 1pm and we were at my house. We had a couple other friends coming for pres when they finished school got home and changed so like around 5 they’d be there.

Alex says he might walk home and have a nap then come back around the time the others are to arrive because he didn’t get the best sleep the other night. I say ah cmon now we can start drinking now I have dragonsoop in the cupboard I think that might wake you up a bit and he said no thanks can’t do caffeine because it makes messes with his anxiety.

I said oh please don’t turn into one of those “my anxiety” people now he’s got that diagnosis (recently he was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder) immediately Ben jumps in to say there’s no need for me to be such a prick. I explained i was just joking but he said no it’s not you’re literally just being a dick. I told him to fuck up and stop speaking on Alex’s behalf and Alex then says he’s not annoyed but also it did make him feel a little self conscious.

So I said okay good to know I won’t say that again, but then Ben pushed it by asking so you agree you were being a dick and I say no because I would have been if I had known it would cause any upset but I had no idea and there was no way I could have known until I was told so no I wasn’t but I would be if I say it again. Ben rolled his eyes sighed and went “right” and I bit my tongue because no point arguing further.