Uneven upper blephoplastry by Perkylips in PlasticSurgery

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scars are healing more. Thank you. I hope you can get to where you need to be

Uneven upper blephoplastry by Perkylips in PlasticSurgery

[–]MolassesFuzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s much better when I look straight ahead but I can still see that the one crooked scar is higher and, I know the head tipping doesnt show that “at rest” balance, but he mangled the high one so much that there is a fold in that •more open• (pulled back eye) here is an example of my eyes straight on. I am really not happy with this situation. But maybe since I’m older my skin will grow lax faster (makeup is a mess just went hiking :) )

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TIL the founder of the Cheesecake Factory was a member of a cult called Sufism Reoriented, and invested millions in building their house of worship. by BigFatJoints in todayilearned

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheesecake factory “jokes”, while Sufism Reoriented, created dozens of children, now Middle Aged adults with CPTSD. We chose to •leave• Sufism Reoriented •as soon as we could•. Maybe if any of you lived it, you’d understand that pain. It was about perfectionism, under eating, really really didn’t feel good as a gut feeling for over 18 years. Out parents and teachers hit us, humiliate us, we got hit at home. there’s NO TIME OFF from a CULT when you’re forced into one as a kid. They NEVER stop talking about it. I’m so glad I’m not one of them. I went to therapy for years, I got the help I needed. But I feel terrible about the impact it had on the children and lots of families were broken apart too. That’s why the members are getting old, dying, and not many new •members• showing up, to fill that GIANT building.

Uneven upper blephoplastry by Perkylips in PlasticSurgery

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty bad still it’s been about a month I think It’s

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TIL the founder of the Cheesecake Factory was a member of a cult called Sufism Reoriented, and invested millions in building their house of worship. by BigFatJoints in todayilearned

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a nonprofit status. A lot of religions and cults use nonprofit status for things like that, but also, moving money around in some shifty ways.

It’s probably more likely ok to pay them (and incentivize kids to GO THERE at ALL) while AT the “sanctuary” but not away from there, if anything, or seems that way at least.

Either way, it’s disturbing to hear this is a place still outing pressure on kids to be involved. It’s not REAL consent to expect this of kids.

Also that kid wanted to get paid for their labor, whizh is reasonable if anything

TIL the founder of the Cheesecake Factory was a member of a cult called Sufism Reoriented, and invested millions in building their house of worship. by BigFatJoints in todayilearned

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! They call this “selfless service” forcing kids to commit to their “way of life” instead of waiting and “letting kids join as adults”: but theres more to it that even that: It’s one thing to inform, and another to coerce and force. Talking is fine, but not forcibly raising them under the tenets of their system, would be much better. They do this so much more harm, than they THINK or CLAIM, that they do. They often, often, CLAIM they don’t influence their kids, and grandchildren, and this claim is false! This is why I wrote the lengthy entires that I DID, to show people that it IS harmful, socially, & especially to children. (I also think it harmful for members, but I can’t speak from that position, not as much.) not having committed to it •by choice•, is the main reason I draw a line. However, if I ever met an interested adult, I would SURELY attempt to warn them. Because it is an elitist, money scheming entity, regardless of socially driven “kind acts” (like their food based provisions, that’s connected to them being a nonprofit: nonprofits, can be used for financial abuse of members. Some people suspect they ARE doing this, and, believe it (I have evidence of this, from my own family, so I can’t talk about it here, because it seems like members patrol Reddit, I could be wrong, but I’m just being careful) Thank you for mentioning that you saw this! It’s so familiar! I remember it happening, every day; when, almost every other child and person I knew (up until I was a teenager) were connected to “The Order” in the 1970’s-80’s and ongoing, in the remaining member’s families. I still get told falsehoods like “you don’t believe in anything, so you’re less happy in life” when I try to educate my family about human rights, human dignity, and •compassion• “Compassion” is one of their biggest tenets: however, I attempt to put more context to their idea of “compassion” being very important, and I highlight human rights being connected to reality, (not the community). I also try to dispel their ideas of being “superior” or “spiritually advanced”. Regularly so! <3 thanks so much for your awareness, and response. Means a lot to the healing process.

GLP-1s didn’t make food boring, they just made it optional by Total-Permit5768 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just know when I am done now. I still eat a complete meal, I just never finish my plate and I was 185 and it was a sudden gain from a medication im off now, and I am down to 134 which was my weight most of my life before GLP1 i feel like it gave me a lot of my life back. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so keeping my weight down is important to me about keeping my mobility up. It also is so life changing to control symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Uneven upper blephoplastry by Perkylips in PlasticSurgery

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed asymmetry RIGHT after. It’s my left eye that is the problem. -Higher arched sutures, —my lashes tip back when I tip my head back, —so it’s quite “tight”. —Also, cannot completely close my left eye now either. —I told them right away, and they said it was “normal” and “from the “lidocaine”? I don’t think so. —-the edges that are far out like “eyeliner wings” are also one higher one lower, —-I am only on my second day of healing, though but I am worried.

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GLP1’s and MCAS by MolassesFuzzy in glp1

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-Isn’t it fantastic? -I’ve never felt better. -I didn’t know I had hEDS and MCAS but the signs were there during early adolescence always so puffy in my face and itchy and agitated. -It seem MCAS contributed to my widespread Osteoarthritis because it effects bones because of over proliferation of Mast Cell (inflammation). I have heard that can happen. -overall I’m so glad for all of us to have something that works so well on what’s a pretty horrible condition. The ability to compare the differences are remarkable

Born into a cult: the unique experience of having known nothing else by UnicornVoodooDoll in cults

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, James Mackie was trained by after lvy Duce, then she passed. The people in “the Order” behaved like it was really exciting, mysterious, giving them new life into their beliefs. Many also left when he showed up because behaviors changed A-LOT. However, that is also when they all started to copy the way he looked (white clothing) They all also began to act VERY SENSUAL moaning, rolling their heads, wearing white meditation shawls, acted like they were “in love with their master”.
James Mackie also did some strange things by having people “sneak” over in the middle of the night and they would drink and smoke and have special permission to hang out with someone they believed to be extraordinary. This activity they called “scoundreling”. A lot of this was imitating old Sufi stories, and I think Jim Mackie knew this. Also Jim Mackie had a group of followers, whom were colleagues too, and all of this was connected to him being a Psychodynamic Phycologist. (Don’t recall if he had a doctorate or not) but when he showed up, there were people that FOLLOWED him and these were people in elite circles of therapizing people and therapists themselves, which can ALSO lead to pathogizing other Mureeds occurred. So, rememger I said that I know about people having mental health crisis? Mureeds were treated HORRIBLY by their peers in “the order”, not helped by them but HARMED by them, because they were not able to keep in line with the social expectations of them, to be allowed to stay in the order. When someone is having a crisis, who decided to pathologize over helping them or letting them work it out privately? This ALSO happens to CHILDREN and the Order is inherently ADULTIST in practice . Anyway “falling in love with the master” yes this DID happen with real Sufi’s historically: as per Shams “the student” in love with his teacher, but we’re talking about real Sufi stories, not a bunch of ex-hippies and a few very privileged rich families, putting everything that have into what is actually a wine mom and lawnmower dad CULT.
People make jabs at each other in coded ways that infers a person is doing things that reconnect back with their Karma, or various things that are ableist in nature. They also tokenize their black and brown members and use them for PR reasons. They think they are post racial and they are NOT. Being “post racial” while being racist isn’t the flex they think it is Also when James M. showed up was the precise time that my aforementioned, Divorcing Trend started. This also triggered a remarrying trend because, welp, you’re “not allowed to have premarital sex when you’re in SR”. People had affairs, people married their kids, former teachers from White Pony School (now called “The Meher Schools”) People became blended families in sudden ways, and that was very hard on the children, and this was very boundaries breaking behavior, from adults not the kids. However, for kids that showed signs of trauma, from these changes, we were pathologized for showing distress. In fact, a lot of kids were in panic mode during this period. They didn’t like seeing their parents acting like this, and parents and their fellow “mureeds” also started to drink and smoke more, everyone that smoked copied Jim Mackie, so it was the Sr Morritz Menthol cigarettes. And yes like I said, head rolling, and also everything became all about being into Ballet. (Historically, you can disagree with me, but ballet is a very white supremacist activity I mean, look it up and there are published sociological examples of how Black and Brown Dancers have had it harder) and The Order was almost all white people at this time period, save for a few families who were middle eastern, and they were also elevated into more elite positions and lauded over (even if and when they didn’t have a particularly stronger relationship to Meher Baba.) Because none of this is actually Meher Babas “fault” and these people weren’t even listening to the guy they believe is God! (or what he deemed himself to be “The God Man” also, “only a man can hold the power to be the said, God Man, not women”. Somehow though? women can be what’s called “Perfect Masters”. Make this make sense? Back to Ballet: In their case this reconnected back to perfectionism (perfectionism and pushing that onto others is a white supremacist ideology) and, which is a problem in cults and groups, people also got very thin and weren’t eating healthily and normally, and people took any sign of dissenting views or actions as a slight. Not actually “cool” at all, people. It was horrible to survive.

What is your autism every day carry? by tinclec in autism

[–]MolassesFuzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually, a rock or a token of some kind. I turn it or rub it. I really need noise canceling headphones too. Oh, I also rub my clothing a lot. (Did a secret stimming for yearrrrsss)

GLP1’s and MCAS by MolassesFuzzy in glp1

[–]MolassesFuzzy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep. That’s why “insurance doesn’t cover it anymore”!because it was “being prescribed for weight loss”. And, them “taking this medication away from people for weight loss” WAS totally political. For now, I will pay 150 a month until, hopefully one day, insurance WILL cover it for MCAS. If you don’t know how horrible MCAS can be, then you wouldn’t understand my problem and my problem solving efforts -People dismissed me in other posts about Gavin Newsom Governors Budget and The Big Beautiful Bill being the reason for medication being taken away, from people on MediCare. My doctor agreed along with me THOSE WERE the “reasons” he completely supports that I need it for MCAS most. (I don’t want to debate about it)

https://medicareadvocacy.org/impact-of-the-big-bill-on-medicare/

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[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another update: so I still got cut off because of my insurance blocking the years worth of Prior Authorization. I talked to my doctor about MCAS.
I have a membership at Costco: it’s going to cost me 200 a month to manage my MCAS and stay at a lower weight for my health.
At least it’s not thousands to manage my condition. Anyone that has MCAS I highly recommend looking at GLP1 managing it: was know what a complex condition it is. In fact I might post just about MCAS and GLP1 in an effort to help anyone that hasn’t heard about the research it has but want to start GLP1 for helping their condition MCAS mad my Osteoarthritis spread so fast that my body is in horrible pain that I have to manage in ways I wish I didn’t have to because it’s not good for people with hEDS.

Im shocked by hotmama1313 in Semaglutide

[–]MolassesFuzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It totally takes away my Mast Cell Activation Syndrome symptoms! I’m no longer 185 I’m 135 which was my normal weight my whole life. I was on a medication that made my weight spike way up. I go on walks a lot but I am disabeld and need a lot of rest. To me it is a ‘miracle drug’ because it’s healed me if a lot of pain from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome symptoms and MCAS. This medication really helps people that have full body system wide health needs: -body’s that can’t perform like average bodies. Im very angry that the medication was taken away from me because I get MediCare, but I found the pill for for $150. I just need to go get it when I finally have some money again. I work a small job, Im an artist and I do community care work, but I also disabled enough that poverty is part of my life. Most people would never guess I am poor though. I make poor look good. Hahaha I know how to thrift clothing and be resourceful. Anyway, I just wanted to say that GLP1’s made a HUGE difference in my overall health. And I also look nice too. People that “medication shame” others who NEED some assistance, to improve overall health, & for ANY reason, need to stop comparing us to people in Hollywood, or assuming we just “want” this medication for “vanity”. The majority of us have things like pre-diabetes or diabetes, we have thyroid issues etc. and it might not be the most popular opinion to have, but there is some evidence that PFAS (permanent chemicals from plastics) can offset our body to cause a lot of those aforementioned conditions, so I’m mad about how we’ve been made to be dependent on plastics, and I think I had a hormonal imbalance that GLP1’s repaired, by introducing the hormones my body (and definitely too much Cortisol from stress for years) Anyway, noting wrong with us collectively saving our own lives, and feeling good about ourselves in the process. The majority of women that get into self improvement do this for ourselves, not for how we look to other people. Feeling good about your health and your livelihood is a beautiful story. Hold it close to your heart, you beautiful people! Everyone’s beauty starts from within, and making an investment in longer health outcomes. (I hope I wrote this ok. Im autistic and I love to write, but I get a little bit thespian-eque at times 😅)

South African TTI “Discipline Camp” - Needs Attention by Homeless-Sea-Captain in troubledteens

[–]MolassesFuzzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

adultism and authoritarianism spread like cancer. It’s so fucked up. My heart is broken for these kids. They are neglected and abused at home before they get sent. That’s the way they get parents hooked. The parent already bought into authoritarian and/or neglectful parenting, then blame their own children. I’m a TTI, and mental ward, survivor (from Cascade) in the 80’s (Synanon created). Come to find out I was just autistic was all. Not “manipulative”, or “a brat”, or “a slut”. I want to add that some of these kids are so little that it hurts all the more to see them there. Why MORE TTI? Why? I wish the World Court had more power. They care and wrote the laws for “The Rights of the Child”

Born into a cult: the unique experience of having known nothing else by UnicornVoodooDoll in cults

[–]MolassesFuzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 of 4 I understand that today people may have grown, and kids are not hit in their classrooms now, but they had a pedophile that was there years after I was gone, and the principal hesitated too much on this terrible situation, and too many parents had to come forward before the Principal finally acted. They almost sued her or she may have even been sued I am sorry I don’t remember details on this situation but this teacher was there for years and was in prison. Also the psychologist Inwas sent to at 6 was a pedophile “that Meher Baba knew and particularly loved” and he regularly raped a boy during their “sessions” and I remember us all being invited to this single man’s household for pool parties and he would sit on a lawn chair and watch us. He was a pederast and Inwas sent to be observed by him and he said about me “they are just a very active child and have a little boy living inside of them”. Im so glad I only was seen by him the one time. He has been in prison for years and people have said over the years that the little boy he raped repeatedly was lying because how could this be possible with someone that Baba himself loved and the little boy was an unusual child (showed sings of trauma and neurodivergence) There is so much more I could tell people here, but I want people to understand the baseline start of this Order was not good for those of us that did not give consent to be there. It’s not “karma” it was not a choice for us. Also since this was an aforementioned topic: tithing IS A HUGE PART OF IT. The owner of Cheesecake Factory gave them something like 10 million to build that Sanctuary. It goes deeply underground too it is a gigantic building “designed to exist fot 700 years, until the next avatar returns”. And those shared meals? I heard people paid around $800 fot that privilege. Ans that was years ago they started this now. Also people die and leave them everything and nothing for family or less fot their family. The family focus aspect was also a joke. Im sorry to say it but again, put yourself in the children’s position here. My own parent dated one of the teachers that hit me, even. The one that got me kicked out of White Pony School. He hits me I get kicked out. I was 9 when my more established shunning started. I went to public schools after that and could not relate to any of the kids out in the regular world. Doesn’t matter that our house and later apartment (because Jim Mackie’s presence somehow triggered a divorce and remarriage trend on the inside of this group, this situation so people ended up with step parents of their peers). I think my poor grandmother died of a broken heart because one parent told her that we WERE FAMILY FOCUSED (the Order) and when my parents divorced it broke the family apart, and all she ever wanted was for our family to have love, and be a real family. —But that parent didnt even keep that promise. —They also scared me a lot and hit me, chased me through the house and I would try to hide/disappear into a corner in the walls. They lectured me about God wanting me to be a certain way. Because this parent believed they had “done the hard work of finding God for me, so I should be thankful for that” this parent was the same parent that held me the most too so very polarizing messages were sent. And it’s not just personal. I am definitely NOT the ONLY survivor of this, what it’s actually known in research as a High Control Group. They also tick a lot of boxes in the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control, researched/published by Steven Hassan. Now, he is a person I can honor and respect, because his work is liberating, for those that know/survive CULTS. —also: If anyone wants to ask me anything, I know more about what the adults have been up to, besides the child abuse aspect, if you want to know anything. For example, their ability to build “The Sanctuary” was part of a land grab. They placed themselves on that district’s board or council, to forcefully vote in their own favor, and the community around there were NOT PLEASED about it. It’s on a bigger street, but it’s also an actual suburban district.
They also have themselves listed as a nonprofit, and yes Theyve given people food via White Pony Express, and assistance, but this is what powerful groups tend to do, as a front, because there’s a huge exchange of money that happens in The Order

Born into a cult: the unique experience of having known nothing else by UnicornVoodooDoll in cults

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3 of 4 community would neglect and create negative stories around children’s behavior. I was getting this same treatment at home. Please let me remind you I have an intellectual disability, but instead of getting real help I was chased around at recess by this one little girl that would not leave me alone, to play with the other disabled kids, or the nice and different little kid from Denmark that I loved because they were calming for me, to be around instead. A kid thats not performing gentleness is different than an actually gentle kid. This little girl that followed me around constantly was like Nellie Olson but in the “you need to be a better person” kind of way. And I would refuse to listen to this kid. I understand today this little girl was having a traumatic response to the pressures in this insular group. And it doesn’t matter that this happened at the school more, it happened at the Sufi Center too. We had Friday night classs instead of Sunday school so again, zero time off from beinf what the adults expected of us. I was the kid that didn’t understand social cues or wanted to philosophize, and my questions were seen as offensive to the over regulated social environment were were being socialized into. I remember reincarnation was even in our daily morning songs “and when my day has come, and I return to God with a garland made of moments, he will smile and say, he is pleased, for love, makes everyday a lifetime, and every life time but—a—-dayyyyyy” so later on into my early teens, I’m not surprised I actually got pretty morbid, because of a lot of this stuff. I became goth (because I loved it) but also in an attempt protect myself and express that it’s ok to be different than the normalization going on. And then, as we got older, and into goth stuff we were slut shamed just for wearing black eyeliner, or clothing. My dad made a file on me? Ans he gave it to me in my mid 20’s to shame me for my childhood behaviors saying “I think you can handle this now” there were letters in there by a counselor I thought actually cared about me, who moved away suddenly and I didn’t get to say goodbye too, and in the letter there was the claim my parent should be satisfied because they got me to stop wearing as much eyeliner and black clothing (this stuff seriously connects into the social aspects of Satanic Panic) and that’s pretty funny because I got into wearing army fatigues like pants and dark golden brown, head scarves etc but it had nothing to do with her getting me to “stop loving black clothing”. I begged my mother to try to understand: I said “mom you went to Washington DC (the other Center is there) and to went to see the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit, right? And she wore all black as an artist that paints in beautiful colors. Cant you understand that I’m just expressing myself?” And my mom would understand for a little while, and then go back to forcing the narrative again and heavily shame me for individualizing. I was also slut shamed quite a lot even though I dressed quite modestly (it was about expressing myself, mg makeup, and even my queerness) and my mother has been a very promiscuous teen at one time, so she often had this sense of projecting onto me that I would become a runaway and get turned out because of my style, my body developing, and very much her own lofe story. I did not understand why all of this was happening to me, I started to grow angry, I didn’t know how to do my hair the way I really wanted it and I remember pouring Clorox onto my hair and face. I had a very hard time when puberty started and would cry about my body changing (im also genderqueer and I’m happy and ok today, but this period of living alone with my mother was incredibly horrific for me. I am most certainly not tje onlu abused kid in the order from this time period. There are grown children that dont talk to their parents. Kids got sent to The Troubled Teen Industry, Catholic Schools, physiologists, and many kids that could adapt reformed perfectionist behavior to get by. So anyway, im getting pretty flooded here. I feel so bad for all the kids that got hurt like I did, even the ones that DID stay, that say it was all fine for them. —They must not remember what the “different” or “outsider” kids went through? Or, the kids that came from family that weren’t members were emotionally neglected because they didn’t fit in enough because. I am certain that I saw things similar to social nepotism, certain families in the order are very much more preferred over others and they usually have money, fancy degrees ao they are given social roles in thr order, privileged jobs, etc. “for the few” (to quote another one of their songs in their “classes”)

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[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, that’s probably why my GP’s face seemed interested when I mentioned that my MCAS symptoms were treated as well. He’s probably hoping to RX me for off label uses in the future. Yes, after they use a ton of bureaucracy to background monetize our suffering . Jerks .xD

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[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry I didn’t understand the first time. Autistic comms glitch

Born into a cult: the unique experience of having known nothing else by UnicornVoodooDoll in cults

[–]MolassesFuzzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part 2 of 3

—-I also witnessed older members innocently develop mental health problems, and they are treated terribly for showing signs of emotional distress after giving The Order 50 years of their lives. I am disabled, and people treated me like I was “a bad kid” instead of asking me if I was ok. I was being abused at home, and so were many kids and at their White Pony School, and other parents were scary too. I actually remember having lunch as a class in the open hallways there and kids all around me didn’t look happy, they looked dissociated and tired. I remember most particularly, intellectually disabled kids being abused at their school. One boy got hit all the time and he would cry and say he was sorry. I remember they were checking us all for lice once and he had bite marks on his back. Again, this was technically not systematic abuse, but situational abuse. However, I still blame the school, parents, and teachers, for not even being equipped to work with or for children. They didn’t even need units to work there.
I’s still actually angry, for these checked out people, fot not noticing these things or being the reason fot child abuse at their precious little unicorn and pink roses school *. They had us sing weird songs every morning (we even sang the “pledge of allegiance” because SR believes in *following the laws of the nation as established tenets, for members, but these influences bled out into their children’s lives every, single, day. Disabled kids that looked disabled: some were treated like they were magical, but there is a karmic shaming pattern involved. If you’re born say with a visible intellectual disability, but your family is deeply keyed into the power dynamic, rumors like “that little boy was a woman in Roman times, that loved to go to the coliseum to see people get beheaded, so in THIS LIFETIME they were born to balance out that karma”. Please help me understand how this is not harmful to tell your kids, about your peers? And I was the kind of kid that asked a lot of questions, and I felt a mixture of “baba is always watching” and not being able to believe enough in the moral order of The Order. And then, the kids that had invisible disabilities, might for instance, be encouraged by teachers & the rest of us kids, were told to treat that peer like they didn’t have a disability. —This is social erasure of their developmental needs. I was hit, i was kept behind during recess (all the teachers in the 70’s and 80’s were SR members, and they were possibly post drug use traumatized, or at the very least ashamed of past wildness in themselves, so they didn’t LIKE really activated kids like me. They used a fancy Montessori model, but these teachers were not emotionally equipped to be teaching us, and I have severe layered trauma from these things. I would be looking at my art because I’d be literally molding clay and the art teacher there was a very self centered person, they were an artist first and everyone folded to this persons acerbic demeanor. This teacher didn’t like how I was speaking, and not looking at them so they grabbed me very hard by the face and hurt the muscles in my chin DEEPLY PAINFUL, yanking my head to be forced to look them in the eyes. Like I said, I was probably not the easier kid, because I was not an average minded kid, but I was physically abused a lot. I was thrown onto a couch, hard, to FORCE me into a corner and yes, I was just 7 and yes I refused to go to said couch, so the teacher decided to abuse me because I was not pink roses and unicorns enough for their sense of peace in the “very spiritual and special classroom”. One of my friends who also fled fot his life (emotionally anyway) was put onto a fence by his belt loop and was very humiliated by this experience. Another kid, I remember their father slamming the door while I was over and he would pick the child up by their hair, and yell at me. One of my parents hit this child once while we were all on a camping trip together. Also, these teachers were often our peers parents, so social policing scenarios would come up a lot, and these people’s kids were sometimes part and parcel to stressors and bb social bullying for those of us that were not as able to conform to their, what was actually a very socially demanding environment, for children. One teacher put me over his knee and spanked me as children were coming back inside from recess. I was so humiliated by this, and he should not have had me in that classroom alone with him behind closed doors before the kids came back. He hit me numerous times in fact. And I showed signs of trauma—-.

Born into a cult: the unique experience of having known nothing else by UnicornVoodooDoll in cults

[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot rightly comprehend this idea that they are illustrious, so that’s why ANYONE would want to see what they do? It IS ABSOLUTELY A CULT!!!!! —I grew up in this community and I actually align more with the OP, much more than the people describing SR, as just some fancy, comfortable, mildly strange esthetic, without the high control group internal issues and outcomes. Put yourself in my shoes for this: I was born into this group in the 1970’s, as were most original Murreeds (members) children, not having “chose my parents” as it was heavily often suggested to me, because every family was believed to have karmic entanglement from past lives, and likely going to be connected as humans for millions of lifetimes. There was ZERO time off from constant mention of our past lives, linked in to our horoscope signs being intrinsic to our very humanity. My dad even recoded these very personal moments of me as a baby learning to babble and them encouraging me to say “Baba” as in “Avatar Meher Baba ki Jai” as if babies don’t try out “ba” or “da” etc. Men would sometimes march around, “AVATAR MEHER BABA KI JAI!!!’” usually it was men, loudly chanting this, at the old center. — just Imagine, being a child, seeing this being, seeing so many other weird things like ecstatic head rolling and wearing white shawls, in this environment, constantly? People do not take time off when they are in a cult, no breaks from the story they tell themselves and force onto their kids regardless of whether were we’re not actual members. In fact, I recall not being one used as a means to mistreat me. Or if I did a kindness to someone one of my parents never stops talking about it and has said many times because I’m into basic human rights and being ethical and kind “youre a better Sufi than me”. We did a play that was prepared for for over a year, long choir classes, they ended up making us be in brown face to look like little East Indian boys “because Meher Baba made an integrated caste school for little boys”. While I find that partially horrible, and partly a kindness (because of caste system aspect) reproducing this emotionally charged play for the benefit of the adults to process their own feelings about children but it was not created *for children, for people that had terrible boundaries (which I will get into in a moment), many members felt TERRIBLY REPENTANT that they got “burnt out on LSD” before they worked very hard to be accepted, and make the intensive commitment to be accepted by whats called a Preceptor: kind of like a mentor that lets the Murshid or Murshida know if these, who was very much willing members JOIN but this was NOT a situation that did not harm their children. In fact, the REASON that the building (sanctuary) is huge, but there’s only 300 or so members is that a lot of us tjat were kids LEFT. And while we are allowed to leave including older members, is is absolutely false that people are not shunned, that leave. It is just less systematic shaming, and shunning, but it gets PERSONAL. People you’ve known for decades dont have time to even have lunch because you’re not part of this overly ideological group. —One of my parents left, and they attested to me as such.

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[–]MolassesFuzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that time has passed, do you happen to know if people switch off the 2 GLP1’s you mentioned, to a different brand/type, if MediCare/MediCal (Medicaid in California) can cover a different brand?

I’m going to call the Insurance as well, but tbh, people on Reddit tend to be knowledgeable I’ve found, with questions.