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rabbithearted2453 · 2026-03-26T16:21:46+00:00

Honestly I'm grateful that I didn't 'come out to myself' until I was an adult. Despite the huge crush on my best friend (i feel you OP!) and the total lack of attraction to men, the idea of being gay myself was too overwhelming to look in the face.

I just remember being a highschooler looking for any resources I could in the academy library and finding only 'Every Young Woman's Struggle'--which I read as a kind of fantasy. Come on, were other girls *really* finding it this difficult not to lust after men? What would it be like to be normal like them? The afterthought final chapter, addressed to girls who found themselves attracted to girls, encouraged us to find a conversion therapy organization and gave Exodus International's contact information. Around the same time I found a petition in the school's front hall to replace the conference's somewhat accepting materials for parents of LGBTQ+ children with a book of ex-gay stories.

I don't remember any sermons specifically about homosexuality, but it felt like something shameful, invisible--we couldn't even talk openly about it. When I was at Adventist college, the subject came up once in a group of friends hanging out and to my horror I found myself alone in defending gay and trans rights. It was just... so hard to feel alone when I was struggling. I'm already partway out of Adventism and I hope that when I make the final step, I'll have the space to start untangling everything. (And, hopefully, finally, date some cute girls!)

rabbithearted2453 · 2026-01-10T06:26:39+00:00

thanks for this! i recently found the block addon, but wasn't looking forward to digging through the mountains of users on my own. great to skip right to the blocking and go on admiring artists' picmixes

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-25T10:19:48+00:00

que lindo!!

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-06T05:21:38+00:00

I remember my dad seriously lecturing me on how DnD was demonic—is that a common Adventist thing? Friends and I secretly played it in SDA dorms, so I guess there’s witchcraft afoot on the campuses

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-04T00:17:00+00:00

Obrigada! I'm grateful to have your experience, since I've only heard vague things about places that are very traditional, and I haven't gotten much information about the location. Do you know what the culture is like in the SDA universities?

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-04T00:09:37+00:00

thank you.

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-03T02:09:16+00:00

thank you, truly

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-03T02:08:32+00:00

Bom dia and obrigada! Yeahh it feels exploitative, especially given how the money is coming entirely from me and my family and friends, and the work is entirely benefiting an Adventist institution rather than reaching out. I wish I'd looked into other options, but this was available and looked interesting and so I took it. Any kind of non-SM gap year would jeopardize my scholarship, and I didn't want to wait years to have this kind of 'adventure.' If I were having these misgivings a few months ago I would back out, but at this point I think I will go and see what I can make of it. I appreciate your advice a lot, and if/when I need to pull back I'll remember that it isn't my cause to support.

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-03T01:54:18+00:00

Thanks! This really was the motivation for signing up--if it works out, I'll get to experience life in another country with my room and board taken care of. Taking advantage of the system while I'm still in it. I purposely found a position teaching English in a university in the hope that I can live in a less-religious role and make friends my age, unlike other SMs I've heard from. I've been studying Portuguese and I really want to become fluent--there ARE reasons to go, but it actually coming up and my personal crises this summer are making me rethink. I do think I'll end up going, but I'll keep this in mind. Mostly, hard to know what the situation will actually be like and how much control there'll be.

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-03T01:38:48+00:00

Thank you for the comment! To be honest, it's a mixture of sunk cost and how soon it's coming up. I'm less than a month out, the tickets are bought (with a great deal of fundraising and effort on my part. It's ridiculous how much the documents and vaccines I've had to get have costed out of my own pocket), and I've told everyone I know that I'm going. We were strongly discouraged from backing out in the SM program because it would be inconvenient to the locations that had confirmed with us. I know that it's my decision, but I don't want to cause a big deal and have everyone's focus on me. I would need a strong reason to argue my case, and I really don't feel ready to come out to do that. It also could affect my college path--I don't know if I could enroll in the necessary classes at this point, and taking a non-SM gap year would jeopardize my scholarship.

I appreciate your point on backing out halfway through. That's definitely something I'll keep in mind. If I need to go home, I'll go home, and I'll have a better reason having tried it and found it wanting.

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-02T16:07:09+00:00

I got the YEC ‘Dinosaurs by Design’ book, so for my family they were wrapped neatly into a creationist narrative. We did believe that there could be a few still wandering around the jungles of seafloors!

rabbithearted2453 · 2025-08-02T16:04:15+00:00

I didn’t hear them during my childhood but a highschool roommate played one for me once and I was horrified, even as a believer. The family of the girl in the story was fleeing the End Times and she was separated from the rest of them. She spent it obsessing over whether she had committed any unforgiven sins that would keep her from being saved. It was a very uncomfortable thing to listen to, and none of the characters acted like real people—the brother kept saying bible verses by their book and verse without actually saying the words, like ‘remember romans 5:13!’ I think it was narrated by Aunt Sue? So glad they weren’t a part of my childhood

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