Me. I believed it.

And lots of people I care about still believe it.

It’s a high control religion, it’s manipulative, and if you’d been born into it and all your friends and your family and most of the adults in your life believed it—yeah, you’d probably believe it too, at least for a good while.

And adult converts aren’t stupid either. A lot of them have recently suffered a serious loss, are isolated, struggling, or in some other way vulnerable to a religion that makes them feel loved and gives them lots of shiny promises about their future.

Me. I believed it.

And lots of people I care about still believe it.

It’s a high control religion, it’s manipulative, and if you’d been born into it and all your friends and your family and most of the adults in your life believed it—yeah, you’d probably believe it too, at least for a good while.

And adult converts aren’t stupid either. A lot of them have recently suffered a serious loss, are isolated, struggling, or in some other way vulnerable to a religion that makes them feel loved and gives them lots of shiny promises about their future.

Why was my skirt length so important?

Why were my bare shoulders so shameful that 8-year-old me had to wear a white T-shirt under every spaghetti strap dress in order to be “modest”?

Why was my little girl stomach so sinful that I had to wear an uncomfortable one piece swimsuit?

Why were even temporary tattoos so bad, I had to throw away the Star Wars and Disney Princess ones I got in the little valentines kids passed out at school?

He worked those into the choreography, essentially showed them to the entire world, which. Fucking respect, bro.

my childhood - a collage made on february 26th 2021

every single picture that was used was taken by me and most of them are my handwriting.

// tw for religion and fatphobia //

My cousin is on a mission. She sends group emails nearly weekly updating all of us and usually I don't read them because they make me feel gross. This last email though... there wasn't much to it but the content genuinely sickens and saddens me.

“Utah is the least homophobic state”