Am I the only one who doesn't think the word tweaker has a negative connotation? I've always just used it to describe anyone who likes to tweak or use methamp, but it seems like on these boards some people use it as a negative thing... just something random I've noticed. In my own life though, it's always just been how people refer to fellow users of methamp. .
I take different forms of the word differently depending upon who says it to me.
If I am describing a time that I was high off my ass I would probably say something like "I was twacked out of my mind," which to me, does not have a negative connotation, it just means I was way hi.
When I hear someone describe someone as a 'tweaker,' I imagine a skinny little cockroach scuttling from one corner to another, with darting eyeballs and a crazy look.
'Tweaking,' I see as what I like to call "stuck on stupid." Like, cleaning the nooks in the fridge door for 3 hrs with q-tips or picking at your face or whatever it may be you get stuck on.
If someone I know called me a 'tweaker,' i would hope that it would be in jest, because I generally see that as a negative term.
I hear 'addict' used as a negative term often, which makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever - apparently denial is not just a river in Egypt. I am addicted and I am fully aware of that fact, no problem whatsoever standing up and saying that, but apparently some people I know who use probably more than I do, will not say out loud that they are addicted. I don't understand that.
Anyhoo - if some random calls me a tweaker, there's probably gonna be some words. But the likelihood of that happening I think is slim to none, considering the only meth users I surround myself with can be counted on less than one hand, and I don't look like your textbook 'tweaker' I guess you could say.