StarCat

I always figured that someone getting drunk just removes inhibitions, meaning that they act more like the "real" them.

I had a friend in college who got drunk once, started evangelizing to his friends over Instant Messenger, and announced to his roommates that God told him to sleep on the couch. He happened to volunteer a lot at the local church, too - so I guess that was the real him.

XABF, on the other hand, is abusive - and after going through my copy of "Why Does He Do That?" I could identify behaviors that XABF did while drunk, and others while sober, and both were abuse, just from complete opposites of the spectrum!