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Thoughts
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Delusion
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"We learned that we had to fully concede to
our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in
recovery. The delusion that we were like other people, or presently may
be, has to be smashed."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
17
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Thought to Consider . . .
There is
no such thing as being 'a little bit alcoholic.'
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D E
N I A L = Don't Even Notice I Am
Lying
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Why did A.A. finally drop all its membership regulations? Why did we leave it to each newcomer to decide himself whether he was an alcoholic and whether he should join us? Why did we dare say, contrary to the experience of society and government everywhere, that we would neither punish nor deprive any A.A. of membership, believe anything, or conform to anything?
The
answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself. At last experience
taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to
pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery. Who
dared to be judge, jury, and executioner of his own sick
brother?
1981, AAWS, Inc.,
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page
141