#and i didn’t rlly look into the actual history of mormonism until my sister and her husband started doing it and sharing resources with me

[pjharvey]

i actually am like immensely grateful for having been able to talk about my experiences with mormonism with people on tumblr like i am so serious i pretty much moved to utah as soon as i had mostly deconstructed mormonism (and then it was paradoxically like i was even more immersed in the culture aspect of it after leaving the religious part) so i didn’t really get to be around people who were separate enough from things to like. listen to stuff about how i grew up and acknowledge how crazy a lot of it is. at college people did react with shock to a lot of things (which i needed) but it felt exploitative, and most importantly it felt like people didn’t have the nuance to understand why i still have a close relationship with my parents even though they are still mormon and i’m not. i feel like people on here actually listen. love u all!!!