What were your first questions?

[The Valkyrie]

Eight when I started doubting.

About ten or eleven when I first read it all the way through.  Thirteen when I officially became a heathen.

Standard Catholic training.  I expressed doubts so my mother gave me a copy to get inspiration.

Oooops!

How did you parents react and when did you tell them?

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A couple of years back, I was a fervent and dedicated Hindu, but Iwasn't overly steeped in the legends and stories that make up typical Hindu belief.  I had decided that I wanted to develop in my beliefs, and that entailed studying the stories and incorporating what pieces fit for me into my own belief.  However it occurred to me that the only way I had of determining which pieces to add and which pieces to reject from the stories was to reason about them.  The question I had was why I should apply reason to my learning of the stories, but not to other aspects of my belief.  Up to that point, my Hinduism had been based upon intuitions about the world and the meaning of my life as a woman.  Once I made the choice to depend on reason instead of intuition, then my belief fell away pretty fast.

Were you raised in a hindu household or any particular brand of belief?

My father was fine with it, being an atheist himself. My mother, not so much. In fact it's still my fault my brother became an atheist, apparently.

Told them when I was thirteen.