>functioning alcoholic
>>24798111I wonder what equivalent term they'll come up with for stoners once weed's been normalized.
>>24798111i was able to maintain a job for a couple years when i was an alcoholic, barely though. the alcohol like leaks through your pores somehow, so you basically always smell like vodka to people, no matter how hard you try to hide it. also, if you don't drink for a certain amount of time, then you get panic attacks and start hyperventilating and youre arms go numb and are prone to having a seizure, so you always have to have booze handy just in-case. and you also have to walk everywhere or take a taxi everywhere since if you get pulled over, then you're fucked
>>24798134>youre armsyour arms
>>24798134Your post is mostly true except the driving part. In my years of functioning boozing I only got into 3 car crashes and only killed one motorcyclist, maybe.
>>24798111I feel it's a reasonable descriptor. I've held down a job with a little real responsibilty and my own place for over a decade, I keep up with the parents, and I maintain cordial relations with a few older relatives who still care for me. Pay the bills and so on. The key to peace is to drink alone, a deeply pleasurable activity in itself, and not mix the drinking time with the outside world, and especially not to mix it with interaction with others. Every problem always starts with interaction with other people.
>>24798111A good proportion of people throughout recorded history could be reasonably described as such.
>>24798111The Founding Fathers.
>>24798134In my experience people vastly overstate the legal consequences of alcoholism and domestic violence. I drove drunk and beat the shit out of my ex wife for like 10 years and I have no criminal record.
>>24798134>>24799299do you people have a history of adhd or childhood problems
>>24799490i might have undiagnosed ADHD, i'd have a lot of trouble paying attention in school and my parents would always get pissed at me because i just wouldn't pay attention to anything in school. I did have a lot of childhood problems, i was always getting in trouble for rebelling against the teacher and hitting other kids who made me angryidk wtf was wrong with me, lol, i just hated school i guess
