#934 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7. Other: Eating disorders
On the outside and even in everyday interactions, I’m just a regular person. While I’ve fallen in and out of activity, I’ve never spoken out against the church and I’ve…
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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):
- Inappropriate shame and guilt
- Childhood self-loathing
- Adulthood self-loathing
- Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
- Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
- Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
- Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
- Suicide Ideation
- Attempted Suicide
- Suicide of a loved one or friend.
#935 Krysta N. CS: 1,3,8,9. Other: Victim Blaming
I was an active, worthy, temple recommend carrying young adult woman of 19. I met a returned missionary at a dance club, gave him my number, then met him for…
#936 Name Hidden. CS: 1,7,9. Other: Accused
At the beginning of high school, I hung out with childhood friends that were misguided. I honestly was trying to bring them back to the church. I was overweight and…
#937 Andrew. CS: 4,5
I can’t sit here silently any longer. My silence to the issue of sexual assault and molestation would just condone this behavior. My story is different then most. It was…
#938 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,6,7,8
I grew up in a strong LDS family. My parents never talked to me much about sex and I took every teaching from the church as “the only way” to…
#939 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8
As a child I had a problem with pornography and masturbation. It started when I was 10 and I hid it until I was 16 years old. At 16 –…
#940 Michelle M. CS: 1,3,6
My story doesn’t have to do with interviews as a youth, but I still feel so compelled to share it. Please understand that I am in no way, shape, or…
#941 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,6
In interviews leading up to my mission, I confessed (in general terms) to “heavy petting.” The bishop and stake president were fairly low-key about things, and I was allowed to…
#942 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Humorous story and larger perspective
Though I did not encounter such terrible experiences as are here described, I did have one that was a bit humorous. During my first priesthood interview at age twelve, the…
#943 Carl C. CS: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9
First, I want to thank Sam Young for doing what I could not: stand up in front of LDS leadership and put the focus on this horrible practice. When I,…
#944 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7
I was born and raised in the Mormon Church along with my older sister and older brother. The brainwashing began for me at a very early age. Monthly testimony meetings…
#945 Ronicka G. CS: 1,3,7,8,10
20 Years. That’s how long it took for me to unravel the mess created by my Young Women’s President. I won’t go into a lot of detail about that, because…
#946 Sara T. CS: 1,3,6
As a young woman, I struggled with boys. I was backwards and shy, and lacked confidence in myself, especially when it came to boys. I was nineteen before I ever…
#947 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
I was 11 when I discovered masturbation while changing into my pajamas one night. I continued to do it almost every night before I went to sleep, as it felt…
#948 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9. Other: Severe depression, intimate partner abuse, hospitalization, medication
My family moved frequently as I was growing up, so my twelfth birthday was spent in a new ward. My family wasn’t in this ward long and moved within the…
#949 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,5,7,8,9
It is difficult to express the damage that is done to children who are, in all other aspects of their lives, protected by laws that rightly prohibit adults from inappropriately…
#950 Name Hidden. CS: 1
I was 18 or 19, at college with my boyfriend. We had been dating a while and I stayed over at his place late one night. I won’t go into…
#951 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7
Our son, 30 years old, called to tell us what happened when he was a teacher. Said a girl called asked him to meet at a park, she kissed him…
#952 Name Hidden. CS: 4
I sat across the desk sideways from a friendly man, my Bishop. He was giving me the standard worthiness interview before going on a Temple trip. I was an innocent…
#953 Carrie B. CS: 1,2,3,8,9,10
Adeline This is my second child, born so quickly, with a head so round, that folks would ask if I had a c-section. I’d take revenge by telling them about…