Omg You Folks Are Awesome! Ive Gotten A Large Number Of Responses On This Post, And Am Super Thankful!

omg you folks are awesome! I’ve gotten a large number of responses on this post, and am super thankful!

If you filled out the survey and didn’t include your email address, that means I can’t contact you to schedule an interview. So if you’re interested in being interviewed, please be sure to include that!

Also, I would love to hear from more people whose stories are underrepresented in academic literature on the topic, including BIPOC, people over 65, and people without a college degree. Adding a few tags to increase the reach :)

Thanks so much you lovely humans!!

sooo um hi! I’m a graduate researcher and wondering if folks would be interested in my study! 👉🏻👈🏻

Are you an ex-fundamentalist, ex-evangelical, or ex-charismatic Christian? Me too, and I’m looking for people like us to participate in an academic research study (IRBNet NO: 1873336) on identity development among ex-Christians. If you want to participate, please fill out the screener survey listed on the flyer (bit.ly/aposidscreener). And please share with anyone you know who might be interested! Please message me or email me at fio . haire @ mnsu . edu for more information.

Thanks!

Fio Haire (they/he), master’s student at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Primary Investigator: Dr. Aaron Hoy (he/him), Assistant Professor of Sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato

[Image description: A multicolored flyer with text that says:

IRBNet NO: 1873336

Research Study for Former Christian Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Charismatics

Conducted by Fio Haire and Aaron Hoy at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Now Recruiting Interview Participants

Participants must be:

- 18 or older

- Live in the U.S.

- Be able to converse in English or with assistive technology

- Identify as ex-evangelical/fundamentalist/charismatic

- Not currently identify as Christian

Complete the screener at bit.ly/aposidscreener

Questions? Email fio . haire @ mnsu . edu

Scan here! - image of an arrow pointing to a QR code.

Share your story in a research study on the identity development of ex-Christians!]

Dis sweet and deadly boy needs a name so here’s some ideas:

- Basurabian

- Clodclopper

- Mustangerous

- Pedebris

- Landfilly

my idea for a poison horse type pokemon is this thing. it is adapted for urban city environments and can camouflage itself as a pile of discarded cardboard paper and plastics although it is not particularly good at it

it is an ambush predator

update: the track was restored today. praise be.

one of my favorite on-repeat tracks was deleted from Spotify today and my autistic brain is very unhappy

Quaxly’s coiffe looks like a kawaii symbiont and I can’t unsee it.

[ID: a close-up on the hairdo of the new duckling Pokémon Quaxly, which is a smug white duckling with a wide yellow beak and large blue eyes, similar to Donald Duck. It has a light blue coiffed hairdo (or feather-do) with a white accent in a curved “w” shape. The coiffe has a peculiar smoothness and flourish near the front resembling a hand raised in greeting. The w-shaped accent looks uncomfortably close to the uwu or :3 mouth shape used for chibi style characters, so I’ve added two white beady eyes to go with the hair, and a caption that says “hewwo” to solidify the implied sentience of this coiffe.]

blesséd new gender

ur government assigned gender for the day is the first thing u get when u click this link to a randomised wikipedia article. NO REROLLS . i am the  trollsteineggje mountain in norway

It feels like everything is changing.

The people I love love each other but in dysfunctional ways.

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I feel like I’m learning that the surest way to maintain relationships is to not have needs, or to meet all my needs myself with tons of energy to spare. That way, I’ll never have to decide between meeting my needs or meeting someone else’s: I can choose the other person every time and they’ll never get hurt by me.

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Is it true that we are all giving at the expense of ourselves?

Are any relationships healthy if they involve caregiving?

Is a “healthy” relationship really just a false and ableist idea? Don’t we all ultimately have to compromise? To make do with what we have? To suffer a bit for the sake of others?

I don’t think there’s a way to have it all. Not anymore, at least. Not since what was too good to be true dissolved in front of my eyes.

I’m trying desperately to love my friends back together. And it’s not sustainable. But it has to be because this can’t fall apart. I can’t lose both of them. They’re my family.

I don’t know what to do, or what to think about my own future, the one I’m slipping towards where my condition worsens and I need physical caregiving support. I know I can’t count on anyone to be there for me. I can ask people for help, but I can’t expect them to help me. They’re not obligated to. At least according to my value system, they’re not.

I won’t tell my hypothetical partner they’re neglecting me, because I won’t rely on them for support. I’ve made up my mind. It’s not fucking happening. I’m gonna hustle til I die and the hustle will kill me and I’m just gonna have to accept that.

Fuck.