When I told an elder what my dad had done to me as a child the elder looked straight at me and told me I was LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the whole elder body said I was mentally crazy. The real kicker was even though my dad was a baptized JW they did not like him. My whole growing up all the elders treated my dad and by extension my family like we were scum on their feet. I remember once on the way back from an summer assembly our car broke down and my dad was able to pull into a rest stop, an elder just happened to be right next to us. When he looked over and saw us with the smoke billowing out from under the hood of the car, the elder put his car in reverse and burned rubber leaving. I was ten and I still remember the sick feeling I had in my gut with the hate I saw in that elder's eyes toward my dad and I felt myself.
I was a 45 year old women at the time I told the elder that, not some young child or teenager. I was crushed and tried to commit suicide at that age. I was still a very true believer. I cannot imagine how a child could face an elder like that one. Than I found this sight and from this sight I learned TTATT.
I got more comfort from this sight than I ever did in my 45 plus years as a JW. Flipper and his wife, OTWO, Madgwitch, Lois Lane, so many reached out and I have become friends with.
Never once did I ever feel like that women in the JW faith.
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