Speaking for myself

When I got to AA in Sydney in 1974, there was one step meeting in a posh part of town, and the rest were what are now called ID meetings. Most speakers would talk about their drinking for about nine minutes, tell how they got to AA and then talk for a minute or so about how wonderful their lives were in sobriety. Instead of talking about what they were like when they drank, most talked about what they did and what happened to them, as many thought it wasn't right for Aussie men to talk about their feelings.