33 Sweet Treat Tweets For Folks Rushing Through Their Meal To Get To Dessert
Look, I’ve been clean for years now. No drinking, no drugs, none of it. I did the work. I got the chips. I am, by every official metric, a recovery success story.
And then there’s sugar.
Sugar is the one I never had to give up, which means sugar has absorbed the full weight of every other vice I ever surrendered. All that displaced energy had to go somewhere, and where it went was a sleeve of frosting and a quiet, feral focus that scares the people who love me.
There are nights I come back to consciousness like a man waking up in a Motel 6 after a lost week, blinds drawn at 3 p.m., surrounded by cupcake wrappers I do not remember earning, a smear of buttercream on my phone screen, wondering who I’ve become.
I am not asking for an intervention. I’m asking for solidarity.
So if you, too, treat a sheet cake like a personality, if you’ve ever stood in a kitchen at midnight negotiating with yourself over “just one more,” if dessert is less of a food group and more of a coping mechanism — these tweets are for you.
Pull up a chair. Bring a fork. We don’t judge here.
We just snack.
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