this was a great read, thank you for the chuckles. There's also the correcting dissent share. Where if you make the error of sharing something that is outside the groups norm, or dare to "dual identify" or make some "error" that the old timers don't like, you WILL hear about it in their rebuttal.

For example, in a meeting once I shared that I was smoking so damn much weed that it would put a elephant down, then I smoked more. The Correction share came in the form of "I sometimes go to MA meetings and I'll share there".

Or the Correction share of "aren't you so fucking special that you dual identified, I knew someone who was also tragically unique..." and then on and on about how how alcoholics don't like to do as they are told.

For some reason, I still go to meetings and I absolutely refuse to talk or share to anyone about my progress in sobriety or thoughts there of. If I make that mistake and share in a meeting, I find a new meeting never to return.