When God Wrote My Love Story, Part One

“Alex learned things weren’t sunshine and rainbows with my family.”

Dreams

“It was only a dream, I tell myself. And yet…..it’s probably not far from the reality.”

Giving Too Much, Part Two

“I never doubted my parents’ heart for giving. I’ve always doubted their love for me.”

On Death (And Life)

“The emphasis my parents put on dying and going to heaven always bothered me.”

Fault and Educational Neglect

“Kevin Swanson is advocating for educational neglect, and then turning a blind eye to the people who say, ‘no, my parents did do what you said and that’s the problem.'”

Homeschool Sex Machine: Book Review by Kierstyn King

“Homeschool Sex Machine is a great way to understand what it’s like to grow up male in the midst of purity culture.”

In which my genitals mean I don’t learn math or science

“I was denied physics because I was born female. I had been taught all my life leading up to that point that girls don’t use power tools, that girls don’t build, that girls can’t understand higher math, that girls can’t hammer straight, that girls can’t and don’t understand science or engineering, and that all of those things are for boys.”

Giving Too Much

“When I was 10, my family chose to allow our house to be foreclosed on because ‘god told them’ to pay another families’ mortgage, and when my parents couldn’t financially afford to pay both, they decided (knowing full-well the consequences) to stop paying their mortgage instead.”

My Elaborate Plan

“Five years ago, on my birthday, I left home. Obviously, there’s a lot of backstory to this, and, I guess, this is that story.”

Parents

“My family is looked up to in churches, cited as examples, people seek out my parents to ask them advice about homeschooling and child-rearing (and other things)… No one sees the dark underbelly of what it looks like to grow up with them and their life choices, no one registers the fake smiles, no one sees past the masks. And I get to pick up the pieces.”