A.S.S.A.A.

A.S.S.A.A.
This is a Declaration of the Association for Survivors of Severe Automobile Accidents:
The A.S.S.A.A. October 31, 1996

Have you had your life altered by an automobile accident? In these complex modern times, there exists *anomie with respect to appropriate automobile- operative practices. This is the direct result of municipal codes governing traffic-safety in America.

Defensive Driving techniques still are not mandatory: It is a privilege for the American civilian to drive in our multi-cultured society; where-as, restaurants and bars can obtain Licenses to serve alcoholic beverages on their respective premises. Hence, reinforcing the norm of drinking and driving in America, thousands of people are dead. Consequently, many of us who are left alive are sentenced to an emotional and/or physical living death.

Until such. time comes that our existing Legislation assumes responsibility for this "privilege" of driving, we survivors will unite for fellowship and comfort. The number of survivors is so massive, we must congregate under one common agenda. By having applied the Twelve-Step Program employed by Alcoholics Anonymous to trauma, there is hope for our future as we unravel mysteries of the medical condition, "trauma", to achieve the sobriety of healing and, with God's grace, normalization.

*Social instability resulting from breakdown of standards and values; personal unrest; alienation, uncertainty that comes from lack of purpose or ideals. From Greek word anomia meaning lawlessness...

The proposed agenda: Twelve Steps of The A.S.S.A.A.

1- We admitted that we were powerless over trauma-- that our lives had become unmanageable.

2- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to normalization.

3- Made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him/Her to be.

4- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our driving behavior since we had the privilege.

5- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our driving patterns and/or incurred infirmities.

6- By means of working through our subtle bodies, we were entirely ready to have God remove all consequential defects due to trauma.

7- Humbly asked Him/Her to remove our shortcomings.

8- Made a list of all we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9- In hopes to make amends to any people we may have wronged, we will attend classes to obtain Defensive Driving status...

10- Continued to take personal inventory applying our newly acquired Defensive Driving techniques in all community ventures.

11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our subtle bodies and God as we understood Him/Her, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.

12- Having a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. [There is life and contentment for all of us after our respective life-altering accidents]

*Post Traumatic Stress Disorder support: