RecoveryRealm or any of it's Monitors do NOT tell anyone, who has a desire to recover and are reaching out for help, that they are not Welcome to the site , the Message Forums or its Chat Rooms.
If you have heard this Rumour it's Simply NOT true !
May I remind those who partake in the spreading of rumours and those who listen and sit in judgement that :
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
Most people know that it's really easy to be misunderstood in online texting.
You know, you say something meant to be funny, but the other person thinks you're serious. Or you write something innocent, and the receiver "reads into" the message anger, frustration, ridicule or worse.
The reasons are well known: People treat chat rooms and message forums like face-to-face communication.
We're used to saying things out loud and having our intentions, mood and demeanor correctly interpreted by the person we're speaking with. But when you strip away facial cues, social context, tone of voice and other information, people can easily misunderstand.
Both sender and receiver tend to automatically fill in the "tone" of text conversation — but they're not getting information about the tone from the text itself.
They're basically making it up based on how they feel or what they fear, not what's actually being said.
It can happen to anyone.
Here's the worst part: Most of the text conversations go unchallenged. You might be angering people, bruising egos or burning bridges and you'll never even know it ! Unless the rumour gets back to you.
Don't get angry from any text message, then reply or share with others based on your anger. First find out the intent of the sender by asking for clarification.
Recovery Realm was established to communicate not miscommunicate.
When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, We want the hand of recovery always to be there. And for that: We are responsible.
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