People with religious extremist parents. What was it like growing up?

Had an exorcism in the living room once? Also didn't get all of my vaccines, and now I don't know what I'm at risk for since those tests to see what vaccines you've had are so expensive.

Oh, making friends was awkward in grade school because I couldn't watch the shows and listen to the music they did.

Some of my earliest memories are driving with my whole family in the suburban and my

dad telling us all the great Christian persecution was going to begin soon, and we all needed to be

prepared for them to take us away from him and my mom and how terrible it would be. He got very into

Y2K prepping as well, and I remember calling my friends and telling them to believe in Jesus because

the world was going to end, and we needed to all be ready.

I also remembered being confused as to why I didn't have any good friends.

Middle school was pretty rough for me.

I moved a thousand kilometers to get away from them.

It was terrible.

I remember getting into an argument when I was 15 with my parents about how crappy my life was.

I had no time for friends because I'd wake up,

go to school, come home, do dishes, then homework, then shop wood for two hours, clean the floors,

maintain the fire in the wood stove, etc. It was like minus 30 degrees Celsius and I have to basically

take care of my parents. Make them coffees and teas, make them food, keep the fire warm for them.

It was the only means of heating that we had. Make them food. Keep the fire warm for them. It was the only

means of heating that we had. Neither one worked. They just sat there for 16 hours a day on their

computers, smoking five packs a day between them, staining the entire inside of the house,

yellowish brown. I used to get bullied in school for smelling like smoke. Anyways, they were

bragging about their conservative parenting skills,

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