cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/popculturechat/p/1054753/eminem-celebrates-18-years-of-sobriety-today-and-shared-this-coin

Source: Instagram.

Yeah, but if you do not do AA you do not get a coin. I have been sober 30 years this month, unless you count 2 zimas, and a sip of a fuzzy navel, then 20 years, and I never got no coin.

https://aamedallionstore.com/collections/20-year-aa-medallions-twenty-year-alcoholics-anonymous-birthday-coins-and-chips

I only know about AA from movies and tv. Why fuck them?

My understanding is that they encourage a recognition of a "higher power", which doesn't have to be God or a religious concept.

AA isn't perfect but it has helped an incalculable number of people get sober. It isn't going to work for everyone but it has worked for a lot of people.

I was a teenage alcoholic and know I needed to quit to make anything out of my life. Now I am almost 50 and unemployed, but I am sober.

Addiction is such a complex and individual affliction there is never going to be a generic method that works for everybody. But I think AA does help a lot of people, and should be recognised for that while still acknowledging its flaws.

Are you sure you didn't feel helpless because of withdrawal?

Ooooh! I'll make you a 3d printed coin. I can probably mail it cheap too. Like regular snail mail. Or you can get it printed to a buddy with 3d printer. Let me do a design.

makes people feel like garbage

maybe because most alcoholics are garbage?

AA has been credited with saving thousands of lives and families.

Congratulations on your sobriety.

That would be awesome. However I am in the states, I have no idea what kind of shipping we would be looking at from Canada any longer. Maybe just an STL, I can get someone in town to print it for me.