Inner Story

MY STORY is a little different from most I've heard in eighteen years of attending AA meetings. The first two or three years of my alcoholic drinking were wildly compulsive, but they were followed by years of controlled drinking. I did not understand that my reduced intake, even occasional abstinence, in no way altered or halted the progression of the illness. My experience serves to point up what we come to learn in AA: It is not how much we drink, or how often, but what it does to us that identifies us as alcoholics.