Nothing personal but if the word bishop is in your profile name, I won't accept the friend request. #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #CultSurvivor #CultSurvivors #RecoveryFromReligion

It wasn't so much the church I grew up in that was culty. My family took the admittedly problematic teachings of that church to the extreme. In this thread I'm gonna try to talk about some of my experiences. I will be referencing former cult member and cult expert [Dr. Janja Lalich](https://www.janjalalich.com)

#CultSurvivor

One reason that I'm so up-front about surviving a cult is because it took me so long to even realize that I was in one. Cults are by nature very good at removing you from criticism and demonizing those outside. When they have you isolated from any outside information, it makes it nearly impossible to leave.

#Exvangelical #CultSurvivor

Migrated servers mainly due to #fedipact reasons, so new #introduction time.

Raised in a cult. #CultSurvivor
I believe in equality, and that the system itself is rigged. #leftist
The planet is dying, and we killed it on purpose. #ClimateEmergency

I was raised to be a hateful, closed-minded person, but I'm doing everything I can to undo all of that indoctrination. I'm constantly learning, so when I mess up, please be patient and correct me if you can.

I love everything #science, but especially #rewilding, #environment, and #climate. I enjoy learning about #selfhosted, #foss, and #linux. Learned just enough about #DataScience before dropping out to be dangerously incompetent. #FuckCars

I was never taught math and only managed to learn very basic addition and multiplication basically on my own.

The cult kept me out of school entirely, and I also have dyscalculia which can make even simple small numbers tricky for my brain.

Despite all that, I Really like numbers, patterns, math when I can figure it out, and I want to learn more! 🧠

#Math #Numbers #LearningDisabled #Dyscalculia #CultSurvivor

Everything is falling apart, and now we have to raise over $2000 or us and the kitties are gonna be on the streets in 3 DAYS‼️😭

https://ko-fi.com/post/Eviction-in-3-DAYS-U6U6MPKWC

Please boost, we won't survive out there again, we're too sick.

#Eviction #Autistic #Disabled #Nonbinary #CultSurvivor #CPTSD #TransCrowdFund #EmergencyCrowdFund #Emergency #Crisis #Urgent #ChronicallyUnhoused #LongCovid

#music
What making friends post cult has been 🙄

& maybe we'd be friends
But it's too hard
When I can't blend into your world
Not that kind of girl
'Cause according to you, I'm too precious
You're wishin' that I was more reckless
You're wishin' that I would smoke 'til I'm high
& play with the guys, regret this
You're wishin' that I was more trouble
Sorry for being a struggle
I do what I want I may not be your type
Sorry I can't be a person you like

#CultSurvivor #Exmo

https://youtu.be/pS0oWUCxZxo

There’s more about my family and our situation on our GFM and our Kofi, and I’m open to respectful questions!

Some people don’t realize (or care) how harmful making assumptions is.

DID on it’s own makes our life very interesting at times, not to mention us both being autistic, chronically ill, non-binary, etc.

It’s not that complicated for those who actually care to listen. 🌸

#Autistic #DID #Fibro #Tics #Seizures #LongCovid #Nonbinary #CultSurvivor #Plurality #CPTSD #Trans #Unhoused #Anxiety

Y’all are so smart out here, and I’m just an ignorant, traumatized cult kid, but I’m listening and doing my best to learn about the real world! 🥺💗💪🏻

#CultSurvivor #CPTSD #DID

I'm so sick from being terrified constantly, and for so long.

#Homelessness #Unhoused #Inn #Debt #Poverty #CPTSD #Trauma #CultSurvivor #Exhausted #LongCovid #EvictionRisk

My disabled, autistic, and trans family needs to come up with $600 for shelter in the next 2 days.

We also need $160 to recover our storage unit which has 90% of our belongings, and if we lose it, we'll be SO many levels of screwed... 😰

#Homelessness #Unhoused #UnhousedWithCats #CPTSD #ActuallyAutistic #Disabled #CultSurvivor #Trans #Nonbinary #Storage #MutualAid #Crowdfund

Read Jen's full wasmormon profile at https://wasmormon.org/profile/and1jenn4/

Share your own mormon story at wasmormon.org!
#leavingreligion #exmormon #exmo #mormon #wasmormon #postmormon #lds #cultsurvivor

Is this our normal tinnitus, or another successful step in our deprogramming?

We may never know. 🙃

#DID #CultSurvivor #CPTSD #Plural

All I'm going to say is telling someone who's too ill & disabled to work to "get a job" is not only NOT helpful, it's rude and ableist as fuck.

When we were able to work more traditional jobs, usually in retail, I LOVED it!

I like people, I'm good selling things I like (which applied to most of our jobs), and I take pride in providing for my family and keeping my loved ones safe.

Hang tight now because this is where it might sound weird if you're not very familiar with DID & plurality.

Feel free to ask polite questions, and if/when I come across them and I'll do my best to answer, clarify, etc. ✨

I'm pretty sure *I* (Hare) have been around most of our/the body's life.

I can't pinpoint exactly when I came into existence, and I don't want to try to figure it out yet because that would involve sorting through a LOT of trauma that we Cannot handle right now.

The body is 30, I'm seemingly stuck at 19 for some reason (or at least have been for the last 2 years), and most of us Chasms (our collective name) are younger than me.

DID is weird sometimes... 🙃

That's 3 decades of trauma & illness that we're trying to manage while also unhoused and without proper medical care or therapy.

We're polyfragmented which basically just means there's a whole heckin' lot of us in this broken little body.

// cults

We only escaped the cult we were born into within this last decade, and it has been a WILD experience learning about the "outside world" and how to navigate it after having been isolated for our entire life.

Especially with how severe our amnesia is. 😟

#Unhoused #Disabled #Chronicallylll #LongCovid #CPTSD #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #CultSurvivor #DID #OSDD #Plurality #PluralTalk #Amnesia

I learned that the reason why black men could not receive the #priesthood was pure #racism. I learned that the #mormonchurch is a #racist, #misogynistic organization that does not deserve the loyalty of its members - so I #resigned my membership. #whyileft #leavingchurch #exmo https://wasmormon.org/profile/jean-bodie/ #exmormon #cultsurvivor #ldschurch #mormon

#wasmormon #Exmormon Profile spotlight on Jean: https://wasmormon.org/jean-was-a-mormon-an-ex-mormon-profile-spotlight/

"I was born in Dorset, UK in 1944 while air raids raged around us. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother who loves to read. I was a #mormon until I read real #churchhistory." #lds #cultsurvivor

This lady is a survivor, and has a difficult, but important story to share. She's coming to the Cincy/NKY/SEIN Tri-state area. Event open to the public, all are welcome.
Please RT! TSF is small & don't have budget for ads. So pls help us publicize her!

#UNCULTURED #CULTSURVIVOR #CULTS #ARMY #VET #CINCI #CINCY #NKY #LIVEEVENT #TSF

https://www.facebook.com/events/856851572303227?ref=newsfeed

Everything is and has been big and scary.

Always was.

But the moment we caught glimpse of the "Outside" we couldn't get it out of our mind.

We need to see more, and omg I'm so grateful we did.

Things might be rough, but we are so grateful that we escaped.

We knew almost nothing of the real world, only what They had cultivated for us.

Almost everything we knew was wrong, and years later we are still struggling to untangle the mess they filled our head with.

We have made strides, but still have so far to go, and our trauma and disabilities affect us every single day.

#CultSurvivor #Cult #Cults #CPTSD #Trauma #LongCovid #DID #Fibro #OSDD #Plurality #Survivors

#wasmormon #exmormon profile spotlight thread https://wasmormon.org/profile/lindsyae/

I was a #mormon. I now find peace in #meditation, #travel, connecting with my kids instead of seeking to control/indoctrinate them.

#exmo #lds #postmormon #cultsurvivor #cesletter #mentalhealth #ldschurch #ldscult #josephsmith #byu #cognitivedissonance #confirmationbias #faithdeconstruction #faithcrisis #mormonshelf #losingreligion #leavingchurch

The wifi here isn't working properly and it's literally putting my family's life in danger 😰

#CPTSD #Emergency #Crowdfunding #Homeless #LosingHope #Unhoused #Trans #Nonbinary #Queer #Disabled #EscapingAbuse #CultSurvivor #Poverty #LongCovid #MutualAid