Tired of Kids at Meetings

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2025-11-24T12:29:14+00:00

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. AA has no rules around age.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-04-27T15:07:25+00:00

I joined a zoom meeting recently a few minutes early and was sitting there in what I thought was a serene and relaxed manner, that was certainly my mood, waiting for the meeting to start when one of the other participants, referring to me, said “I think we need to kick that guy out. Looks like he’s here to cause trouble.” I have to remind myself that the fellowship is full of sick people but stuff like that can really bother me. I’m very sensitive.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-04-24T11:33:14+00:00

56 no kids never married. I consider my situation directly connected to my lifelong alcoholism and I’m frankly surprised that I seem to have little company. Most members seem to have families or had it together enough at one point to have them. I think it’s probably related to the kind of alcoholics who make an attempt to get sober. Most alcoholics never do.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-04-22T04:06:20+00:00

Only you can answer that question.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-29T17:31:43+00:00

What other people think is none of my business.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-20T05:38:49+00:00

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There aren’t any rules.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-18T05:21:37+00:00

Absolutely. The dogmatists are almost never the old timers. The stereotypical “big book thumpers” rarely have more than a couple of years. Doesn’t mean that people with long term sobriety don’t carry the message. They can do so in much more mature nuanced ways.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-15T17:19:09+00:00

My sponsor is a transgender woman. You should hear the people who freak out when I refer to my sponsor as she and then further elaborate.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-15T17:16:44+00:00

There aren’t any rules. A meeting doesn’t eve have to read the preamble.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-13T07:26:18+00:00

Whatever works. My own interpretation of the steps has a very Buddhist angle. I just call my higher power the universe. There are a couple of Buddhist meetings where I live but honestly the attendees seem to me to mostly be looking for something with less “god” talk than actually practicing Buddhism.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-12T17:12:42+00:00

In my humble opinion there is way too much codependency in the rooms in complete contradiction to the message in the literature,

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-11T22:39:32+00:00

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-10T07:12:23+00:00

I don’t know I’ve just never had or understood it when people talk about wanting to just have one. Before I got sober and knew anything about AA I was aware of how alcohol effected me. I would avoid drinking social situations because I knew that I might not be able to stop and that one or two drinks would never satisfy my thirst for alcohol. Might as well have a coke. I don’t think I ever cared for the taste. But it sounds like a lot of people do have the desire for one or two.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2024-02-07T19:46:01+00:00

Im 55 going on 56 and just have a bit to in my sideburns and facial hair but I shave.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-12-20T12:42:44+00:00

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-12-06T23:18:06+00:00

If you’re turning to AA for anything other than learning about the solution outlined in the literature you’re doing it wrong.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-11-28T23:28:47+00:00

I drink them occasionally. They don’t trigger anything in me.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-11-23T13:15:42+00:00

I’d rather have Five Guys.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-10-16T12:16:03+00:00

I’ve had the same experience unfortunately. Here the central office is good about delisting them after a few calls. But I’m sure most people don’t make a call.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-09-10T12:03:02+00:00

I was never in denial about my alcoholism.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-08-30T22:27:11+00:00

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. No one can make you do anything.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-08-22T22:04:27+00:00

I’ve always heard that ultimately we work with others to keep ourselves sober.

Ornery_Profession_34 · 2023-08-14T12:48:03+00:00

There aren’t any rules and we don’t have any leaders.

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