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I’m looking for help. Therapists say that my form of religious trauma is too unusual for them to know about. Although my parents chose to send me to a very religious school, they were only nominal and uninformed members of the same religion themselves, and punished me very hard for anything. I learned in the school they$ picked out: even just for being taught any rules, requirements, stories, etc, that they didn’t know about, that were and are an integral part of what they’d signed me up for: things but that they themselves hadn’t actually been brought up in. The reason they punished me was because, they thought that I had to be making it up because they didn’t know about it, and because they couldn’t believe that anyone literally practiced any such thing as actual religious rituals: since that sort of thing just hasn’t been in their own upbringing. They actually sent me to a therapist, when I was a kid, to try to get me to believe that I wasn’t being to Wirth, actually, I was being taught. Where can I find a good therapist to deal with this? I’ve been told that what happens to me is “not supposed to be possible to happen”: to such an extent that it is simply outside the training of any therapist who is familiar with religious abuse. Complicating factors include that I turned out (in adulthood) to also be autistic (medically diagnosed as such at age 30, which was half my life ago, the signs had been their lifelong). Therapists i’ve sought out have often told me that they really don’t want to touch the case of anyone who has both of these problems together, because it’s just too hard for them. Also, a lot of therapists say that my experiences are too triggering for them to want to know about.

I see that “auto- correct” made some typos for me!

“ experience is training” was meant to be “experiences and training”

“to, Wirth” was meant to be “taight what”

Hey Kate! This is tough stuff. Check out the therapists listed at the Reclamation Collective. All are trained in dealing with these issues. Best to you!