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r/AdultChildren
Adult Children - exploring the phenomena of emotional maturity in an unforgiving world
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"Adult Children" of Alcoholics (or ACOA) refers to those raised by alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional caregivers. Adult Children in recovery strive to go from relying on reactions learned in childhood to forming new habits suited to adult life. Recovery is an ongoing process with many paths and detours and side trips. Recovering from childhood issues can be a lifetime endeavor, but healing IS possible. This is not an ask reddit or advice reddit. This is a recovery community.
"Adult Children" (or ACOA) refers to people who were raised by alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional caregivers.
Some traits that Adult Children share are:
- overdeveloped sense of responsibility
- approval seeking
- conflict avoidant
- difficulty with intimacy
- feel fundamentally diff...
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September 11, 2008
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Total Submissions
15,713
Total Comments
125,439
Earliest Submission
September 11, 2008
Earliest Comment
September 25, 2008
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 953 | 16,333 | 319.5 | 0.1 | 2346.15 | |
| #2 | 841 | 42,796 | 282.0 | 0.4 | 790.17 | |
| #3 | 3,188 | 371,637 | 1068.9 | 3.1 | 344.93 | |
| #4 | 1,550 | 196,990 | 519.7 | 1.6 | 316.39 | |
| #5 | 201 | 42,315 | 67.4 | 0.4 | 191.00 | |
| #6 | 192 | 41,021 | 64.4 | 0.3 | 188.20 | |
| #7 | 1,335 | 285,933 | 447.6 | 2.4 | 187.74 | |
| #8 | 4,066 | 915,097 | 1363.3 | 7.6 | 178.66 | |
| #9 | 110 | 24,887 | 36.9 | 0.2 | 177.73 | |
| #10 | 884 | 250,475 | 296.4 | 2.1 | 141.91 | |
| #11 | 172 | 62,108 | 57.7 | 0.5 | 111.36 | |
| #12 | 321 | 118,723 | 107.6 | 1.0 | 108.72 | |
| #13 | 253 | 98,010 | 84.8 | 0.8 | 103.80 | |
| #14 | 59 | 22,979 | 19.8 | 0.2 | 103.24 | |
| #15 | 213 | 97,170 | 71.4 | 0.8 | 88.14 | |
| #16 | 41 | 19,301 | 13.7 | 0.2 | 85.41 | |
| #17 | 2,887 | 1,393,370 | 968.0 | 11.6 | 83.31 | |
| #18 | 256 | 135,946 | 85.8 | 1.1 | 75.72 | |
| #19 | 615 | 349,293 | 206.2 | 2.9 | 70.80 | |
| #20 | 70 | 39,875 | 23.5 | 0.3 | 70.59 | |
| #21 | 46 | 27,975 | 15.4 | 0.2 | 66.12 | |
| #22 | 478 | 314,450 | 160.3 | 2.6 | 61.12 | |
| #23 | 87 | 57,847 | 29.2 | 0.5 | 60.47 | |
| #24 | 65 | 43,703 | 21.8 | 0.4 | 59.80 | |
| #25 | 38 | 27,541 | 12.7 | 0.2 | 55.48 | |
| #26 | 41 | 29,771 | 13.7 | 0.2 | 55.38 | |
| #27 | 148 | 117,647 | 49.6 | 1.0 | 50.58 | |
| #28 | 36 | 31,201 | 12.1 | 0.3 | 46.39 | |
| #29 | 1,912 | 1,698,885 | 641.1 | 14.2 | 45.25 | |
| #30 | 286 | 256,361 | 95.9 | 2.1 | 44.86 | |
| #31 | 37 | 33,618 | 12.4 | 0.3 | 44.25 | |
| #32 | 160 | 151,898 | 53.6 | 1.3 | 42.35 | |
| #33 | 387 | 389,633 | 129.8 | 3.2 | 39.94 | |
| #34 | 59 | 59,689 | 19.8 | 0.5 | 39.75 | |
| #35 | 112 | 125,654 | 37.6 | 1.0 | 35.84 | |
| #36 | 150 | 172,207 | 50.3 | 1.4 | 35.02 | |
| #37 | 109 | 126,657 | 36.5 | 1.1 | 34.60 | |
| #38 | 44 | 52,467 | 14.8 | 0.4 | 33.72 | |
| #39 | 480 | 594,752 | 160.9 | 5.0 | 32.45 | |
| #40 | 116 | 150,162 | 38.9 | 1.3 | 31.06 | |
| #41 | 33 | 44,709 | 11.1 | 0.4 | 29.68 | |
| #42 | 3,528 | 5,003,767 | 1182.9 | 41.7 | 28.35 | |
| #43 | 122 | 175,366 | 40.9 | 1.5 | 27.97 | |
| #44 | 220 | 316,523 | 73.8 | 2.6 | 27.95 | |
| #45 | 476 | 686,120 | 159.6 | 5.7 | 27.90 | |
| #46 | 30 | 43,514 | 10.1 | 0.4 | 27.72 | |
| #47 | 41 | 59,562 | 13.7 | 0.5 | 27.68 | |
| #48 | 93 | 146,400 | 31.2 | 1.2 | 25.54 | |
| #49 | 378 | 609,017 | 126.7 | 5.1 | 24.96 | |
| #50 | 70 | 114,411 | 23.5 | 1.0 | 24.60 |