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JosieBLawson

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Progressive Boomer with ADHD, formerly lived in Atlanta, GA & Boulder, CO, now in Bay Area CA.

Actress, animal rescuer, political junkie #BLM, pro-LGBTQ+ #Immigrants make America Great! Keep your rosaries out of my granddaughters' ovaries!

Beckett Mariner is my emotional support animal

I have moved from SFba.social to Mastodon.social.

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Until I was 8-9 years old or so, I was under the impression that god and religion were abstract, philosophical concepts everyone used as practical metaphors. It made perfect sense as mythology and was seemingly culturally bound, different countries and languages having different religious traditions.

Then one day, I suddenly realized people were serious when they say they believed in god and they adhered religion as a matter of faith.

That realization was, and still is, very shocking to me.

I now think being #ActuallyAutistic might have something to do with me not taking people seriously on their religious faith claims.

@actuallyautistic

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@CynAq @actuallyautistic

When I was about 6, the Baptist Sunday school teacher told us that "cute" story about all the animals on Noah's ark and I started crying - why did god frown all the other animals and children? I was horrified.

Later I joined the Mormon church and, about 7 or 8 years in, when I could no longer just accept everything, I was told, "read the scriptures, you'll find all of your answers there "...

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@CynAq @actuallyautistic The Mormons have 4 Books of scripture, which include the Book of Mormon and the Bible and I read them all 6 or seven times. Every time I read them I found more upsetting things and more questions.

The final straw came when I was in the kitchen with my father in-law, brother in-law and my husband, who said:

I must be:

  • breaking the word of wisdom.
  • becoming too worldly.
  • committing adultery.

I decided it was no place for a woman who thinks and never looked back.

JosieBLawson,
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L! I hadn't done any of that, and my husband accusing me of that, simply because I was having a crisis of faith and asking honest questions that none of them could answer, broke my heart.

I left him, left the church, got my BA in theatre and have, for the last 32 years, been married to a man who had zero interest in having a "Stepford wife"

When I left, a huge percentage of LDS women were suicidal and they couldn't understand why. 🤦‍♀️

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@Thumptastic @CynAq @actuallyautistic

One thing I love about kids is their honesty and directness. Then we ruin them by punishing/training that out of them. Apparently you can't do that with autistic kids, which is awesome.

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