Hi everyone, I didn't mean to threadjack. Thank you all for your sympathy. As you might expect, yes, I did have some real anger issues that took me years to work through. Thankfully, I was able to work through those, although I still have no affection and little respect for my mother.
Yes, my mother does have some significant issues. I believe she would have been a real prize <sarcastic smirk> of a parent w/o the cult, but the cult made her a lot worse. After all, she was looking for a cult to join because it supports her dysfunctional bs. If it wasn't jws, it would have been some other group. I might have been a Moonie or Scientologist had she not found the jws first! <shudders>
She wanted to be an eternal mommy. While she was busy waging her campaign against my puberty, she was still breast feeding her 5 year old. (Oh please let's not start a breastfeeding debate again.)
My congregation was extremely strict though. I've realized that when comparing notes with others. There was a lot of stuff said from the platform and informally that my mother used as leverage to carry out her anti-puberty campaign....rumors about tampon use...saying it would turn girls on just like cows who get stimulated when their genitals touched (is that even true? about cows I mean)...I needed desperately to take birth control pills to control a serious medical problem I had and almost died from several times (due to her refusal of preventative medical care)...the sistas hung out in the KH bathroom and told us I would grow a penis if I took them...rules against bathing during your period because touching water during your cycle would make you violently ill...