We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn't done so yet. (AA, pg 30-31)
Having a drinking problem does not mean that you have lost your legs.
What a terrible message to send people.
There is no clinical evidence that alcoholism is a disease, either. None.
"Science may one day accomplish this". . .
Numerous scientific studies have confirmed that AA makes men and women confirmed addicts, not men and women living happy, sober lives.
The book crams on people the hollow falsehoods that "alcoholics" are a certain type of person, one who cannot understand things the way that "normal" people understand reality.
This logical falsehood creates a host of problems for people, one of which centers on identity and reality, both of which founder when the proper premise of truth falls away.
"We" are like "men who have lost their legs".
What does having a drinking problem have to do with "not being able to walk"?
What do you say to the members of AA who have no legs from day one?
What do you say to the men and women who overcome their handicaps by getting prosthetic legs?
AA is wrong on all counts.
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