Originally Posted by miamifella

And I have said to many people, the only statistic that matters is whether AA works for you or not.

And you cannot know the answer until you try it.

One of the wisest things in the program is that it asks that we all share our experience. Not our theoretical knowledge. Not our statistical analysis.

No. AA does not ask us to share any of that. Rather AA suggests that each of us share our own individual experience and let the listener recognize themselves in our stories...or not.

When we get away from that simple sharing of our stories, we want to make claims that AA is the perfect only way, or that it is some evil destructive program. None of that is useful.

What is useful is to speak honestly about one's own experience in recovery.

Then let your story find the right people who will benefit from it.