I recently shared part of my story. I tried to keep it light since I am just so happy that I finally feel like I'm actually escaping the organization.
I was just the opposite of the Flipper in the congo.
However I also remember going to meetings at the kingdom hall feeling lonely and out of touch because of not being in certain cliques or groups. I noticed I was not alone in this.
Well, I was typically involved in everything and always tried to include everyone. I would have targeted Flipper and anyone else I saw sitting in a corner. I was the cool pioneer (according to the teens in the congo) that made service fun and I organized trips and events for my bookstudy, teens and the sisters. Anyway that all changed, one day just out of the blue, no one would speak to me. I mean literally not speak to me. I would go up to a group of chatting sisters and join right in and they would either just ignore me or all walk away. I am not exaggerating. All of a sudden, when I went out in service the brother would not assign me to anyone. There would be three sisters working together and I would recommend that maybe I could join that group and even offered to drive but I was told to just meet them in the territory. Once in the territory, I was told that since I was pioneer I should be okay working alone and that's what I did. After a several weeks of this, an elder approached me and recommended that I transfer to another congo. After all, the congo that hosted the foreign language group was full of folks that were all related to each other and most had never set foot outside their local area. At first they loved all the new blood that was coming to congo to support the group but then...they decided that certain ones didn't belong. Long story short, I followed the recommendation and changed congos (by this point I was severely discouraged) and thus the whole pioneer fraud thing....blah, blah, blah.
So yes, everyone, please continue to share your stories...it's theraputic reading.