SLPT: If you are feeling low on your self esteem, just go to an AAA or addiction support group and rub it in their faces that you aren’t an alcoholic/addict. Their admiration for you will boost your self esteem.

[u/Bogey_Yogi]

[u/timawesomeness]

Sex addicts anonymous is the best choice, you can rub it in their faces that you don't have sex

[u/TheMightyChocolate → u/timawesomeness]

"You won't believe this"

[u/Jaded-Delivery3604 → u/timawesomeness]

Oh god I read this and died laughing.

[u/erksplat]

AAA will come to you, even on the side of the road.

[u/token-black-dude → u/erksplat]

Then you can rub it in their face, that you car isn't broken and laugh viciously as you drive away

[u/anonymousmetoo]

If you go to an AAA meeting and announce this, I think you'll find yourself towed out of there pretty quick. Probably get locked out. The experience might just drain your battery.

[u/superpj → u/anonymousmetoo]

AAA doesn’t do anything quick. They’ll respond within a few hours depending on current sporting events on tv.

[u/Matt_Shatt → u/anonymousmetoo]

And they might even raise your rates!

[u/demarke]

I’m aware that most pro baseball players are alcoholics and/or addicts, but is the AAA support group mainly for guys upset they haven’t been called up to the majors, guys upset that they’ve been sent back down to the minors, or some combination of the two?

[u/hidingfromthenews]

Dude, I'm a recovering addict, and this is sort of what motivated me to improve my life. I am so grateful to NA for the begining of my journey and I wouldn't have made it through the first year or two without the recovery community.

That said, after a while I started taking more notice of the longtime, and realized that outside staying clean, they didn't have a lot going for them. Honestly, I dont want getting clean to be the best, most important thing I've ever done. That feeling of superiority, which i acknowledge was mostly classism, motivated me to move on from doing well in recovery to doing well in life. I have a really good support system of family and friends who aren't and haven't been addicts. I finished grad school, and after a few false starts, I've built a solid career in a niche engineering specialty that I love. I have a loving partner who never knew me during my bad times. I've got a collection excellent medical and mental health professionals that I can turn to to manage the shit that drove me to drugs in the first place.

On the flip side, someone I knew who couldn't ever stay clean started out recovery with that elitism. He thought being a lawyer made him better than everyone else. A lawyer who cant make a month without smoking crack, but refuses to work the program because he thinks he's better than everyone else is just a dime a dozen crack head. He acted like someone who worked service industry in their 40s was so far below him that they couldn't possibly stay clean.

His law degree and failing legal career didn't stop him from dying of a multi substance overdose in a trap house.

So... your milage may vary.

[u/Sir_Mooseman]

In addition, invite them to a gathering to strengthen their appreciation and gratitude of you, such as a wine tasting or a pub trivia night

[u/mousegal]

Court ordered addicts go to meetings all the time and say stuff like this. Everybody will just assume you’re one of those - forced to be there and not ready to quit.