Personal Narrative: My First AA Meeting

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This was my first AA Meeting experience, so going into the meeting, I had no expectations on what I hoped to get out of it or what I thought it was going to be like. Since this was my first AA meeting to attend, I was nervous about how people at the meeting would perceive me and their reactions for my reason being there. The meeting itself wasn’t awkward, but there was one moment from the meeting that was awkward for me. The moment that was awkward for me was the beginning of the meeting when we went around the room to introduce ourselves and when it was my turn, I said that I wasn’t an alcoholic and that I was there for a class assignment. So not knowing exactly what to say in that moment and having over twenty strangers staring at me in that

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