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Old 12-17-2009, 04:57 PM
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ClayTheScribe
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I would like to say my alcohol addiction is learned, but I never really watched alcoholic behavior. My dad rarely, if ever, got drunk. He drank a snifter of whiskey every night for many years, but I never saw him get outrageous with it, not like I did. I never really saw my brother get drunk and my mom rarely drinks and I never saw her drunk. But I know my dad's dad was an alcoholic because my dad would describe how he would drink, that he would pinch his nose so as not to taste the alcohol, just to get drunk. And apparently he'd go on drunken tirades and get abusive. Though my dad is sort of a mean drunk and my mom has suspected in the past he might have a problem. That's why I think it might be genetic, but the genetic theory was always suspect to me. Heck, it could just be I picked up what type of drinker to be from friends and TV and movies. Who knows? The important thing is that I stay sober.
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