Oh sweetie, you are so young to be having to deal with this. This isn't like a 16 or 17 year old fighting and having to deal with it for another year or so before freedom. You have a good 6 years (depending where you are and what the legal adult age is for you) and that is too much time to be burning bridges but it is also a long time to pretend to be who you are not. I personally think you need to be somewhere in the middle.
I came out to my parents when I was 16. My step dad laughed and said it was a phase and my mom was in Iraq so she had other things to worry about. I was forced to go to church and I cried in the restroom most of the time. After that they left me in the car the next time during Sunday school but made me go to service. I sat and sulked the entire time. After that I never had to go again. I wasn't outright rebellious but I was obnoxious enough that I wasn't worth the effort it took to get me to act happy to be there. Then again my parents weren't very religious. My suggestion is to do as you are told even if you do it while looking miserable. I think showing an effort but not pretending to be a believer would help. Go to their religious functions and behave maybe your misery will make them feel bad. I wouldn't lie to them saying you are something you aren't and I wouldn't neglect to remind them nicely that you respect and love them but you are hurting from this forced religion. Worse comes to worse treat it like an unwanted music lesson. Kids are forced to go to those despite their wants all the time.
I came out to my parents when I was 16. My step dad laughed and said it was a phase and my mom was in Iraq so she had other things to worry about. I was forced to go to church and I cried in the restroom most of the time. After that they left me in the car the next time during Sunday school but made me go to service. I sat and sulked the entire time. After that I never had to go again. I wasn't outright rebellious but I was obnoxious enough that I wasn't worth the effort it took to get me to act happy to be there. Then again my parents weren't very religious. My suggestion is to do as you are told even if you do it while looking miserable. I think showing an effort but not pretending to be a believer would help. Go to their religious functions and behave maybe your misery will make them feel bad. I wouldn't lie to them saying you are something you aren't and I wouldn't neglect to remind them nicely that you respect and love them but you are hurting from this forced religion. Worse comes to worse treat it like an unwanted music lesson. Kids are forced to go to those despite their wants all the time.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
