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Given your success, I'm surprised that you feel the need to remain anonymous. Is it only social stigma, or do you think that there would be business or professi
by hooande 7y ago
Given your success, I'm surprised that you feel the need to remain anonymous. Is it only social stigma, or do you think that there would be business or professional consequences if people knew that you are an alcoholic in recovery?
- unstatusthequo 7y agoI’m not surprised at all. Why cause yourself trouble by airing dirty laundry? Zero upside for him to do so, and really no reason to. Knowing he is X person doesn’t add anything to the message, it would almost certainly have blowback for him.
- germinalphrase 7y agoAgreed. His message is a gesture enough.
- hooande 7y agowhat's the blowback that you envision? maybe one of his investors will say "you used to be an alcoholic so we're pulling funding"?
- BoorishBears 7y agoYes?
- Spooky23 7y agoPride is one of the cardinal sins. Doing a peacock walk creates and reinforces the type of self delusion that got you in trouble to begin with.
- whiddershins 7y agoThat’s also an aa concept. It’s literally in the name. There’s something about print and interviews and such but I don’t recall the details.