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Peppercape's avatar

Both my children were very active in scouts from the beginning and completed their highest honors. I remain an active adult in the program thirty years later in the venturing program. I love adventure and I treasured sharing it with my family. The happy family chapter closed 3 years ago with my daughter in the trans cult. Overnight, from kids that called her mom as the positive influence, to political left chaos. All she talked about was blue states and Bidens legacy. The heroes Biden called trans. Suddenly, she got tattoos and frequented the marijuana stores. She went from two jobs at age 23 to one then none and wanted "me time". She went from two degrees in a great job of five years to waiting tables then drugs. Her new room mate replaced the other, going be he pronouns. He and they, went as blue as could be into Newsome territory. It's been over two years since she moved, no contact of course with anyone here. She would be 27 later this year. Most people would never understand this kind of pain. I hurt and cry every single day. Barely existing. It sucks.

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Emily Ann's avatar

You did all the right things, and still this ideology came for your son. This is why parents must not indulge the tendency to blame ourselves, or think that if we had done X, Y or Z differently, there's be a different outcome. We were in a battle that we didn't even know was happening, and after six years, I've come to believe there is nothing any of us could have done to stop it. It was already too big and too powerful.

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