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Someday, I'll write how my religious homeschool experience (grades 6–12) made me lazier, narrower, and more afraid, and how I wouldn't have recovered if my queerness hadn't made my burn it down and start from scratch. Homeschooling is hard to do well unless you're rolling in $.
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As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).
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My parents were fundie evangelicals, and the way religion influenced my life as a homeschooler was extremely painful. My parents were also poor, one-income, occasional food scarcity. I am still grateful for being homeschooled.