You've probably heard it said that alcoholics stop their emotional development when they start using

[raccoon]

because their answer to every stressor is drug and alcohol abuse.

I disagree with that, for myself. My emotional development stopped a long time before I ever started drinking.
In my younger years, I was what you might charitably call, "young for my age." IOW, when I was 18 I had the
emotional maturity of an 11 or 12 year old.

I'm also an adult child of an alcoholic, so I think that accounts for it.

[tavalon]

1. A lot of us get it messed up for a lot of reasons

I was an adult at 8 and only learned how to be childlike after 35.

[demosincebirth]

2. There were many things wrong with me evern before I ever started drinking. Thank God for AA.