Since a lot of my relatives are JWs and I made the stupid mistake of talking about my upbringing to non-JWs family and friends that I had, they all think I'm a JWs. Then I haven't been too successful at having a career, I'm in a lot of student loan debt, I don't have a lot of security out in the world. I've dealt with a lot discrimination at work (I'm African American and female) so I'm probably never gonna be able to pay back my student loans at all. I'm starting to realize that life is mostly a scam. Even when I try to explain being raised as a JW's to my past therapist, they didn't understand. I would have been better off just not talking about it all. Talking about it to people just made things worse. I believe anybody that is exposed to this religion or who follows it is cursed.
As two-faced and sociopathic as people are there, I probably would have more security being a JW's. I'm not sexually active, I don't smoke at all, I drink only very occasionally. No matter how much I've tried telling people I'm not a JW's people still think I'm a JW's. I know, it's a crazy existence. I had to make better choices when I was younger.
I know its a lot of hidden agendas at the kingdom hall, I know how bipolar the people are, I know there's a lot of scam artist there, but hey, the world isn't so much better. I have lesser of a chance of making it out in ' the world' because of the mistakes that I made in the past. If I had left when I was 18, had never talked about it again, avoided getting in debt, had started a family when I was younger, I probably would be scot-free by now.