#not that it matters but I'm literally 16 days sober. some might call that 'active addiction'

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When people say that they don’t want to be around addicts, they don’t mean recovered /ex- addicts - they mean active addicts or “dry drunks” who haven’t changed their behavior and are still selfish and manipulative and playing the victim. Active addicts hurt everyone around them. If you’re a recovered alcoholic people aren’t talking about you.

"still selfish and manipulative and playing the victim".... you are aware that addicts, even addicts who are not in recovery, are complex human beings with a broad range of characteristics and behaviours, yeah? the diagnostic criteria for being an addict is not "selfish and manipulative cunt"

I never said that anyone has to be friends with an addict, and it is never morally wrong to cut off someone who is being shitty to you. people can have their boundaries and that's fine. but when you say that you don't want to be around addicts, you are making a fuckton of assumptions about what an addict is. and you know what? I don't want to be friends with someone like that. I don't want to be excluded from the category of "addict" so that people like you can still feel okay about demonising addiction. they're talking about me because I am an addict and always will be, and I stand in solidarity with my fellow addicts. peace and love