#exmorman

[prismfever]

to any person who has escaped a religious cult, do you have any general advice/tips about leaving? I recently turned 18 and I do have a friend to stay with when I do eventually leave everything behind. everything is just so overwhelming. I don’t know where to even start with leaving. My parents are still under the impression I’m staying under their control & on my way to getting baptized. It’s a bit of a slippery slope & I don’t know how to handle it.

[space-akari-darling]

Just a reminder that Mormons don’t actually care about what’s happening to Palestine and that they only care about gaining new members 💕

[typical-hipster]

I was thirteen...

I was thirteen years and two months old when I had my first panic attack over the possibility that I could be a "sinning" homosexual.

I was thirteen years and two months old when I thought that god would stop loving me.

I was thirteen years and three months old when my father went on a rant about how media used to be pure and not filled with "all this gay crap". As though growing up watching people die everyday on the news from hate was normal.

I was thirteen years and seven months old when I smiled again. I had just learned the word Bisexual for the first time and it felt right.

Then I frowned because I realized that the Church would never love me again.

I was fourteen years and one month when I stopped believing in God.

I was fifteen years and three months when i found my true friends. They weren't hiding in Bible verses and church.

I was sixteen years and one month when I started to fight for the right to love myself no matter what.

I was sixteen years and six months when I realized I didn't actually want to die. I just want to live my own life on my own terms.

I am still fighting, I am still willing to bleed for my right to be alive. For everyone's right to be alive. And I don't care if I have to tear down every single temple with my bare hands, or burn every single copy of the Book of Mormon. I just want the lies and manipulation to be over.

[prismfever]

shoutout to trans folks with religious trauma who have chosen to reclaim biblical names or names associated with their previous religion <3 the POWER we hold !!! 🤍

[prismfever]

so many adults in my life have done the worst possible shit. breached my privacy, betrayed my trust, endangered me. you name it !!!! and now i’m scared to even ask adults around me for help. ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF IT. why? no fucking clue. like obviously i know they aren’t shitty like the people in my life i’ve had to deal with. but now i just have so much anxiety reaching out to people to ask for help. i hate it

[prismfever]

society if overly-religious parents believed in actual therapy rather than religious "healing"

[prismfever]

I can't stress how grateful I am that I learned I was in a cult at a young age. Sure, it gave me time to unlearn some of the material literally ingrained in me, but no one talks about how hard it is for younger individuals stuck in cults. I'm not saying this to undermine what other cult survivors have gone through, but it is seriously so hard to find resources. It's been hard for all cult survivors to find help in general, but as a younger person, it's been a lot harder finding ex-cult safe spaces with people around my same age group. I tried the ex-jw reddit, and it's filled with bots and nsfw content. none of which I would like to see SHGSDGh !!! other support groups I've encountered aren't the most friendly towards minors. All I want is a safe space to communicate my feelings with others who can strongly relate to me. And it's been so ridiculously hard to find one :')

[prismfever]

it’s literally terrifying to think about how i’ll be cut off by basically my entire family. my parents, brother, cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandparents will never speak to me ever again.