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Old Oct 25, 2017, 11:15 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by Rose76 View Post
Al-Anon preaches that my job in life is to manage my own behavior...

It sounds to me like you may be a little over-invested in trying to refashion other people's behavior.
As a recovered alcoholic as well as believing myself to be on the autism spectrum, I can say there is a *huge* difference between a) trying to enlighten and possibly help someone who is *willing* to review his or her own behaviour either for his or her own sake and/or for the sake of others and b) trying to refashion the behaviour of a chronic, out-of-control alcoholic.

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...you describe success at your efforts...a good thing, especially with behaviors that are dangerous.
Agreed.
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