This is outta nowhere, but has anyone thought of alcoholism as a birth defect?
I have a switch somewhere in my brain that apparently doesn't work properly. In the physical sense, it's like someone who has a cleft lip or gluten intolerance. And birth defect isn't quite the right word, but you see what I'm getting at.
It can be easy to think it's unfair that "everybody else" can drink and I can't, but how is that different from a gluten intolerant person who has to be hypervigilant about not getting a crumb in her food while "everyone else" chows down on wheat bread?