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I was raised in a bar. My mother owned it for 40 years. Yes, same customers every day. They were all alcoholist but some of them stopped functioning. My mother Fed them, did their taxes, cut their hair. It’s terrible and sad. The functioning alcoholists had a family to turn home to. I used to be an alcoholist until 10 years ago. My wife had to make me realise that drinking every day, even just one beer a day, is alcoholism.

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Is alcoholist(s) term that means something different than alcoholic(s)? Never seen it before

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- markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
  
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  - Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    True, autocorrect switched alcoholic to alcoholist.
    
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- JAPJER@mtgzone.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Alcoholist is an older word for alcoholic. They might be older, hence the older word
  
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  - Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m old, but not that old :-)
    
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  - LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah I wasn’t sure if maybe it was a term they used in another part of the world, or if maybe it meant one who partakes in the use of alcohol but maybe isn’t an addict. It seems like it is a synonym like you are saying.
    
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- RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think it’s alcoholism/alcoholic. Just a different translation.
  
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