Originally Posted by
courage2 
Rob, I agree many characteristics of a normal adult are learned. But lke Trach, I've been pretty shocked to get the merest glimpse of what a normal person would have learned by my age. Drinking instead of learning to be normal -- even learning normal ways to treat my other abnormalities -- for most of a lifetime.... I wouldn't recommend it, even it it makes one charmingly eccentric or wise in the ways of the world.
Yup, I wouldn't say drinking is taking the higher road than is not drinking. I do say though that enjoying a state of normality for a recovered alcoholic drug addict such as myself is a delusion at best and at worst a self-serving enterprise which must thereafter having been reached (or rather claimed) cause one who is now "normalized" to distain and resent their own origins.