I get that about AA where you live Pixie.
I think for me I needed to go and face it, because not wanting certain people to know I have a problem, or worrying about someone seeing me in AA I think was really just my AV trying to find another way out! I need to be really honest in this recovery or I just don't think it will work for me. Facing those fears of people finding out I have a problem really opened me up to focusing on other things and getting help from people with more experience than I have.