pms wrote:
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> Stuart said:
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> Totally wrong. [clip]
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> I have never heard of anything like this.
Is it possible that _everyone_ in this thread is correct? It begins to appear that there are rather radical differences from AA group to AA group. And that is as one would expect, given that there is no large functioning bureaucracy with the power to keep the local chapters in step.
_If_ all (or most) AA groups can or do _require_ that members speak, then that is a radical difference between 12-step groups and support groups (or most support groups). For our DMDSG meetings we have two primary rules:
1. Anyone may speak who wants to.
2. No one need speak who does not want to -- and no pressure can be brought on anyone to speak. We have had members who attended for years and never spoke more than once or twice.
Carrol