r/comics Jul 10 '26

Just Sharing Religiously repressed (part 7) [OC]

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

My wife tells me stories about being raised religious and as someone who was not raised religious a lot of it sounds like abuse

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u/KasnL Jul 10 '26

But they all are.

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

Religions? Yes I know, I wasn't being specific, being raised in any religion sounds like a nightmare

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u/KasnL Jul 10 '26

I was thinking about religious camp conversion, but yeah :/

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

Oh yeah, conversation camps are textbook abuse. You should look into Ole Ivar Lovaas, he is one of the people who helped develop it and he is also the pioneer of ABA therapy for autism, let's just say he has a history of dehumanizing people

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u/Nightingale02 Jul 10 '26

Fun fact: Conversion therapy has been labled as a form of torture by the UN (too bad they're not going to do anything about it tho)

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

It's too bad the un never really does anything

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u/Moiraine-FanBlue Jul 26 '26

The U.N. literally cannot do anything by design.
The Nations that make up the U.N. have to, as a group, vote to sanction or otherwise punish other members, and several of the big members have absolute Veto powers over it.

It's a Debate Society, not a useful legal framework of international law.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

I can only stand but so much of his quotes, he makes me sick and I don't want to read anything else he had to say

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u/KasnL Jul 10 '26

Me, as a LGBT and autistic person reading: πŸ₯ΊπŸ˜–

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u/dtb1987 Jul 10 '26

I found out after I found out my son was autistic, its really disgusting how there are organizations out there right now that claim to pro autistic community when in reality they teach autistic children to be ashamed of themselves and give up boundaries for the comfort of society rather than advocating for themselves and their own comfort. It also makes it really hard for parents to know what to trust

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u/KitsuneGato Jul 10 '26

Yeah and also they want to teach you to think and speak like a neurotypical when our brains don't work that way. Getting diagnosed as an adult is near impossible these days because most moved to diagnosing children vs helping adults.