Hey Josh
You do know me. We were friends. I backed away from AARC when I got out and realized that I had issues involving my time there.
I did not use drugs or alcohol for years after getting out of AARC because I wanted to be sure of the path I took in life and I found that using clouded my judgement.
I have now finished school and am going in to do my Masters. The life I have now has a strong foundation and I make my choices. I have a councellor I see and have worked through a lot of my issues.
My problem is now moving past AARC and into a future with my friends and family (which includes AJAX13).
I am not a child so he is not a pedophile.
You have always been passionate about things and I am glad to see AARC never broke your spirit or your fight.
You no longer know me or my life so saying you "abhore" me is a little off side. You may disagree with my view but I have made no personal attacks against you. I believe you got caught up in this when you were vulnerable and lonely. I am sorry it has gone so far.
Do you still have your sense of humor? "Bull in a China shop" is how I remember you, but you always made me laugh.
So you deal with your path and we will deal with ours.
I guess I don't know who you are then, no matter. Glad you came on and posted, because if you have someone like Ajax representing you, you're up the creek. He speculates worse than the 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and that's pretty fucking bad.
You don't know me anymore either, I can promise you that.
I'm safe in saying that AARC didn't really suit my personality very well, which is why I battled with the people in there the way I did, but it wasn't about nurturing my personality, it was about stopping me from getting further out of hand. I was in a bad situation, in every which way defined by the word addiction. No other program could have delivered in the way AARC did. (and believe me, I tried most of them)
I didn't like a lot of the shit that went on there.. asking for the bathroom, being told what to do all the time.. being put in a position to open up about things that were killing me inside. What kid wants to do that? I'd rather have stayed comfortable smoking weed, drinking and beating the piss out of people... back then. Cleaning that shit out did me good. I can say that because I can promise you that I am 100% sober today.. for over 11 years.
Desperate needs... desperate measures. AARC knew the way I acted, they knew what I was after, and they called the shit as they saw it. I know some odd things can go on when you have a pile of alcoholics stuffed into a room together.. no different than a high school in that sense.
Anyways; whoever you are, you sound quite a bit more level headed than your friend Ajax there. In fact, he doesn't appear as though he possess' the mental capaciousness to be involved in a conversation of this nature with me... or even you for that matter.
Rachel, I know you've done extremely well for yourself. I'm stupidly glad for you.. My only wish is for absolutely everyone to do well. I hate hearing about people crapping out and doing nothing with their lives.
What I'm getting at, is that even if you have a 110% justified reason for hating the place: Why bother? There's things in life I will NEVER get closure from no matter how much I try, bitch or complain about it. Once in a while I think of something that went on in there, or something someone said to me while I was in there and I wanna lay the heat on them.. but then I remember that I'm probably doing better than they are and that they probably aren't even thinking about me.
In all honesty, success is the ultimate revenge. It may go unnoticed, but you will know. Resentment is such a waste of time.. we aren't on this earth for very long.. .so why be pissed off this much?