BPD

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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

AA "members" aren't made to speak.  I've been in some small meetings
(usually 10pm0 where the night's leader will jokingly say, "I will call on
people".  Because there aren't many there.  But all you'd have to say is, I
really don't have anything to say, and that would be it.  In the bigger
meetings, you could sit silent for years and it wouldn't cause comment.