Not sure if this is the right community for this. If not, I’ll nuke it. Just looking for somewhere that isn’t world or ml now that autism.place is gone.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Goddamn.

    PS this is not the first or second time I hear of someone being a drugged up party animal in their youth only to turn fundie religious in middle age and fuck up their kids and family.

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      Yeah…

      (I added a bit more to after you replied)

      I am fairly sure that my brother’s actually schizophrenic girlfriend came out of the FLDS cult, and may have actually personally met/known that guy from it who just got convicted.

      In a way, I’m glad all of this happened, in the sense that my family probably thinks I am dead, and I will now never have to deal with any of their insane bullshit ever again.

      … though it would have been nice if I did not have to nearly die every other day for about a year to achieve this, lol.

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        Yes, grab on to those silver linings. Little compensation I know, but you’re now much tougher. Little in life could faze you. I know from my situation and the horrified looks people give me when I explain my early life. Then I see the same people struggle with things I consider trivial.

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          Yeah, this entire thing has finally endowed me with self respect, and that perspective shift you talk about.

          Always had impostor syndrome before.

          That’s gone now, haha.