How did Australian Aboriginees learn to drink gasoline to get high?

You do not see other animals in Australia drinking gasoline to get high

@shortstories Maybe they liked the bottles.

@white_male

So they grab it from a bottle to drink it?

Monkeys in Asia learned to drink alcohol from people that leave alcohol or to even trick people into letting their alcohol down so they can drink it

But I never heard of monkeys in Asia drinking gasoline out of canisters because they are shaped like bottles

@shortstories Sub100 junkies literally do anything for a high. Most of your typical drugs are disgusting, Pavlov learning occurs to love it i guess.
Heck, if i'm not in the mood i force myself through first glass or two of alcohol.

@white_male

Do junkies in other countries / continents drink gasoline?

@shortstories I've heard of paint thinners and similar solvents, not of gasoline, no.

@white_male

Now tbey inhale them but do they actually drink them

You see this just sounds more crazy to me

@white_male

Gasoline sniffing has several types of social meanings in Aboriginal communities. These include the demonstration of nonconformity and an effort to delay entry into mainstream life, an effort to become thin, and an expression of power and control in an otherwise powerless situation. Understanding these meanings can aid efforts to develop appropriate policies and programs. 24 references

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/petrol-sniffing-among-aborigines-differing-social-meanings

@shortstories So where does the drinking it claim comes from?

@white_male

A couple of years earlier, it was reported that a 14-year-old boy from the Sichuan province in China was struggling with a 5-year habit. Born from a desire to turn into a Transformer, the boy’s addiction began with drinking the butane out of cigarette lighters, but soon progressed into siphoning gasoline from the family’s motorcycle and sipping on that.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/drinking-gasoline-cause-go-blind/

@shortstories Now this gets me thinking. Maybe there's a gateway drug that leads people to drinking from the pump.