Everyone Said My Case Was Too Special for the Regular Program - AA Speaker - Susan D.
Podcast: Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker PodcastPublished On: Sat Mar 28 2026
Description: Susan D. survived four treatment centers where everyone agreed her case was too special for the regular program — until a man with an eye patch told her the truth and she worked the steps like everyone else. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️ Sober-Sunrise.com Susan grew up in a house where her father gave her alcohol as a child, her mother gave her Valium so she could walk straight, and they called the crawlspace under the floor "bad girl jail." Down in that hole she'd dream about wood floors, a garage door that goes up and down, and being a mother where no child would ever be afraid. She lost her father, brother, and mother to tragedy before adulthood. Susan spent her adult life drinking without missing a single day, lying about everything, working in a psych hospital while hiding her own drinking, and cycling through treatment centers where everyone agreed her case was different. She drank a child's wart remover on a choir tour because she couldn't go a day without alcohol in her body. After her last crisis flatlined her in a treatment center, she called the one place with a man who'd told her the truth — and on the 11th day, they let her come back. She sat on the front row, worked the steps like everyone else, and discovered that none of what happened to her had to keep her sick. Today she lives in a house with wood floors and a garage door that goes up and down, and she flew to Ukraine to adopt a little girl who doesn't have to be afraid. Susan D. from Dallas, TX speaking at the 20th Annual Singles Conference in Lake Murray, OK - September 4th-7th 2003 Music: Deep by KaizanBlu
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