Reminders For The Angry Apostates

Update:

So we are on speaking terms. The elders aren't pushing too hard about meeting or formally disassociating because the CO (their higher up) was visiting at the same time. Despite all their freaking out they contact me like nothing has changed now.

I plan to leave things like this for now and am glad I can still talk to my younger brother. Curious to see if things will change as I'm more honest online.

I finally moved out and told my parents I was leaving the cult. Moving was fine i suppose but the phone conversation explaining my stance was much more emotional than I expected.

My parents aren't the type to question their beliefs so I wasn't going to put effort into explaining myself, but they kept pushing. They had preconceived notions that I was just bitter or foolish and kept poking only to have me explain how their bigotry made my life hell. My dad tried to play off the slurs and awful things he said as jokes only to have to come to terms with the fact that I grew up feeling unlovable and disgusting because of him.

Now I'm waiting for them to decide if they ever want to talk to me again. They're crushed but still miss the point. Rather than realizing "homophobia bad" they took "we did homophobia wrong". While I can't say I wanted to spill so much to them, I'm happy that they have to live with what they've done.

@wisteria-grows-here, my birthday is September 6th

Anyone have PIMO birthday ideas? My birthday day is coming up and while I can't exactly throw a party I want to do something nice in the spirit of rebellion. Especially since this will essentially be my first!

I've never been in a spirit halloween and I want to so bad! I know its dumb, but the fact that I've been raised with idea that a tacky seasonal store is a sign of the devil makes it spicy I swear.

“I could make him better” well I could take him shopping at a Spirit Halloween and kiss him with my apostate lips in the makeup aisle while you think we’re doing homework

me:*hangs out with someone for 3 hours* me: oh hey, I just remembered I have to tell you something me internally: that was a lie. I’ve been wanting to tell you all day but I’ve been too nervous to just say it so I’ve been mentally rehearsing for hours and

People saying being gay is a choice and then show me characters like this:

You think anyone can choose to ignore her! Smh 😔

Unfriendly reminder that if you think women are inherently submissive and/or inferior to men do not follow me. I want nothing to do with you

If Only Once, If Only For A Little While, a new 18-page comic about the ways we deal with loss.

for easier readability, the whole thing is also up here, on my website! 

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regional convention is now who wants to give me money /j

No one:

Me, in a weird point of deconversion/relearning stuff where I can’t do a lot of technical stuff I frequently did in fundamentalist environment I was raised in anymore, but I also don’t know how to do a lot of technical stuff I have to do in the secular environment I’m in now, that others grew up being taught how to do: