escaping the Mormons

[Darwinian]

I'd just like to say well done on keeping yourself together throughout those 17 years of brainwashing. It would have been all to easy to simply succumb to that level of indoctrination but the fact that you obviously has some form of built in immunity says a lot for you.

And you are quite right in saying that this is a form of abuse. Any loving family would have let you decide what path in life you wanted to take for yourself, but then, perhaps they are as much victims of this religious virus as you were.

At least now you are free to work things out for yourself and if nothing else, the experience seems to have made you a very strong and determined person.

Oh, and welcome to the forum { cool }