There are a few reasons I personally announce myself as recovered...me, not AA as a whole...So I am just speaking about me and my current perception.
1. If I say that I am anything but recovered I would be lying and that is bearing false witness of the program-and it is also falsely humble. I won't minimize the power of God and what this program can do when it's worked, it will remove the desire to drink, hence, "recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body". Prior to the program I could not stay sober and that brought me to a state of hopelessness, a life doomed to drink-now I'm not-simple as that! It is my personal witness and testimony of the truth of the program when I say I am recovered to offer hope.
2. Re-cover in spiritual terms means that you have been located and are covered, you are now under protection and living divine right order in Christ, when truly living and abiding in the Spiritual Principles of the program and are truly expanding on these spiritual concepts daily.
3. I don't identify with any disease, disorder, trauma or behavior-whatever it is. If I were diagnosed as having anything, (mental, physical or spiritual), I would consider the information and then go to any lengths to recover from it. Or if I have experienced some sort of childhood or life trauma such as abuse, rape or molestation-I do not identify with that either because I feel like I would be aligning myself to the victimizer and the event and that would keep me confined to the victim box. So like in AA, I can use that experience and help others who may have experienced it and tell them how I recovered from it thereby transmuting the bad into good which frees me from it-just like it did with my alcoholism. We can use the principles of the program to process all these traumas and disorders in my opinion. Again-I don't speak for AA.
My ego is always looking to identify with or as something other than who I am in God-whether it be my profession, religion, sexuality, trauma, dis-order, dis-ease, skin pigmentation, past, political party, ect...instead of just being me who can be, or have all these different things, but they don't define me because that would limit me to those finite interpretations of things I can' yet comprehend. If I'm closed off by these labels then I may never be able to experience something else. What should define me in this 3-D realm is the content of my character and that is something that is in constant state of growth and renewal because I allow new information to come in as to not get trapped into a identity bubble out of fear of not belonging or fitting, which is way I identified with all those things before.
It's harder to recover from something if I have interwoven my ego with it and made it who I be-so, it's just best to be me, always changing, moving, shifting and expanding-just as any living thing, being or creature.