While randomly googling I found out that someone I liked in high school now works for the ADL. She was nice and one of the top students in our class, but I guess not really too creative? She never expressed any political opinions but was clearly a lib. She was also one of the popular girls who thought they were better than everyone else. I was still kind of shocked when I found out. Like...how can you do this?
As I think about it, another girl I liked in high school is now attending an obscure medical school which is kind of controversial for graduating a bunch of anti-vaxxers or something. She was one of the best students in our class as well and also really nice.
Who do YOU know who has ended up doing something totally awful?
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I knew a girl in high school who was absolutely a lesbian and wore a lot of punk outfits. Everyone knew she was gay. She was fun as hell, had really good taste in music, was extremely friendly too. She was one of the few people in high school who'd talk to me normally too. Overall, she was really cool, yeah?
Part way through senior year of high school she vanishes like three months and shows back up with longer hair, a slimmer physique, and was always carrying a Bible. She had a dead look in her eye and a constant ear to ear smile.
Turns out her parents put her in one of those conversion programs out in the woods. Pray the gay away type shit. She was like an entirely different person. Completely blank inside and like was like any of the other dead eyed chipper evangelical girls in the town. It was like she died. I still miss her.
Last I heard she was trying to get into real estate. She also became really right wing.
When I read that, I knew exactly where that story was going. It makes me so sad to think of what some people can do to children. How fucking sad.
Also thank you for sharing this story. As I thought about my own closeted experience, I realized I felt bad for not coming out before turning 18 and giving my parents a chance. But then I realized fuck that, my parents weren't safe. They were totally the type who would've signed me up for a program like that if I came out while a minor. They gave me shit after I came out, but at least they couldn't sign away my custody to some fucked up conversion camp.
I hope you're on better terms with your family now or at least around people you love. I'm sorry your parents were like that and I do believe you can find a comforting supportive community.
My parents insist they wouldn't have, but if I was gay I know I couldn't have come out to them safely
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That's the worst.
I know a girl that was raised by an ultraconservative asshole of a mother, she's still a friend of my spouse's (they're not on terms as solid as they used to be). Typical bullshit, girl's mother told one of our good mutual friends that they're going to hell for having premarital sex with her soon to be husband, all those fun things.
But for a while, the daughter seemed like she was gonna break away; she got a little too crazy in college, but not anything that made me think she was going to wind up dead in a dumpster or something, just typical cutting loose and getting more liberal (and even a bit leftwing in some aspects). But she married a guy from a real religious family and just...settled right back into that rut. All her views skewed right again, they had a kid and are gonna raise it heavily religious, she's living with her mother for a bit because they're having their house built...
Just eh. Most of the friends are getting close to cutting her and the husband out, they're all getting done with her for various reasons
:sadness:
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