[Paulie]

I have decided that I will adopt a policy of loving acceptance regardless of how any person identifies themself.

Well that is good . That is one of the many things we learn, acceptance.

So why don't people just identify as addicts, so we can focus on the similarities between all of us and not the differences? Wouldn't it be more thereaputic for us all? For both the speaker and the listener? Wouldn't it help them to fit in rather than give their disease a way to wiggle out on a technicality?

Personally KJ when someone identifys themselves as a word or words other than just addict, it really doesnt sway my attention one way or the other. If I find their words funny I may laugh. But in my experience over the years for me and the woman I have sponsored, it really doesnt make much differnece.

And I have a question, just because some says 'my name is bob and I smoke crack' rather than 'my name is bob and I am an addict', who am I to say that they are not identifying themselves in the correct way. The correct way for who, you, for me? what about the correct way for them. It is not for any of us to say or to rate if they understand the disease or not.

rather than waste time and brain cells trying to figure out if they are like me enough to benefit from my methods.

enough to benefit from my methods? you are gonna have to explain that statement to me KJ. I am in the rooms to learn from other experience, strenght and hope and share mine.