BPD

[Kelley]

At 01:30 PM 3/8/02 -0500, pms wrote:
>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.

what DOES this have to do with the price of cushioned sports socks in canada?

kelley