One of the biggest handicaps that plague AARColytes is their inability to empathize. Here's Guest44431444 lashing out after his bizarre attempt to spin AARC backfires:
"i guess why I have a differing opinion than most of you is that I chose to stay clean after I left AARC although my father stayed a corporate contributor and had his life royally screwed up and used to "cult-speak" me as well."
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27646&p=333314#p333314But now he just wants to share with the group:
"Wow, can I relate to the OP - I too am going through deprogramming after sixteen years...
I was not in Straight or Pathways but AARC in Calgary, what a way to completely mess up me, my family and all of my relationships I once had.
To this day, I still have no relationship with my father, my brother and I are coming around and a lot of my friends I had are starting to re-surface.
I too find it weird to interact with normal people after so many years of forcing myself to believe as that was the only way I'd be accepted by my family, turns out as I found out yesterday, they were against me for being a part of the program as AARC forced them to believe stuff they couldn't.
I hope one day to regain some sort or normality back in my life but I struggle everyday with serious depression and fear of what might happen - the old cult mantra keeps playing the fucking tape in my head day in and day out...
I am lucky that I have a supportive wife and kids to help keep me going as I am sure if it were just me forging through this mess, I just could not do it.
Guest44431444"
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26994&p=336044#p336044Although he has already attacked the opponents of AARC by implying that they're simply relapsed addicts, and he's taken time from his busy schedule to call the AARC protest a waste of a day, here he is again unable to comprehend that others can see what he's doing.