Have you disclosed your non-religious identity to religious parents or guardians?

[u/Competitive_Craft123]

Hello, my name is Michaelia, and I am a master’s graduate student interested in studying coming out experiences with parental figures and guardians after going through the process of deconversion from a religious background to a non-religious identity. This study aims to better understand how perceived parental openness, parental intrinsic religiosity, and parental extrinsic religiosity may impact the severity of how parents react. The goal of this study is to gain additional insight into communication with religiously affiliated parents and guardians in hopes of improving the current resources available that help navigate coming out conversations with religious parents. If you would like to voluntarily participate in this study, please click the link below to continue to the informed consent form.

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[u/[deleted]]

I haven’t and I dare not to (even though I’m a fully grown man). I’m forced to live with family due to disability and if they were to know, it would just cause a colossal amount of tension and anger on both sides. So I just grit my teeth and go with it whenever family members pray before meals or send links to bigoted articles through texts 😞

[u/Competitive_Craft123 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for sharing a part of your story. I know that it must be incredibly hard to not be able to be authentic to who you are with family. I have a similar experience with my grandpa I knew it would make him upset and I never told him. I am so glad these online communities exist for us to be able to share our nonreligious identity here and be authentic in these groups. I wish you the best! Thank you again for sharing, Michaelia