Originally Posted by
Butterfly 
Thank you every one for your kind comments,... I can access the adult children forum as my parents weren't alcoholics just dysfunctional!! ...
That is actually a problem on _our_ side. You see, when we started ACoA in the early 80's all we knew about was that _alcohol_ made a mess of our lives. This was long before the _concept_ of dysfunction even existed. We've made a lot of progress since then.
We've tried, many times, to change the name of the organization. But if we did then it would end up like "Adult Children of Alcoholics, Druggies, Gamblers, Sex Addicts, Rage-aholics, Abusers, Sociopaths, etc. etc." Which would be no help at all.
If you look at the home page for ACoA (
Adult Children of Alcoholics) it says "Welcome to Adult Children of Alcoholics®/Dysfunctional Families".
We also changed the title of the ACoA book to "ACA Fellowship Text", and then on the bottom of the book cover it reads "Alcoholic / Dysfunctional Families".
So, yes, you are most welcome to come browse the ACA forum, the ACA website, and any of our resources. You don't have to contribute, or join, or anything like that. Just browse around a little bit and see if anything there is of use to you.
Mike
Moderator, SR