we’re trying to unlearn. we want help. but it’s so difficult when we are constantly shunned from both sides. this community hardly feels like a community when you don’t have everything figured out. it’s so depressing.

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I truly don’t understand how you’d want to push a queer Catholic who’s confused, push further into Catholicism and repression, instead of being welcoming and understanding

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Exactly. Sometimes I hang out with younger people and it dawns on me they’ve never known a time where gay marriage wasn’t a thing. Like I remember being in class being apart of conversations about if gay people should have the same rights

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I relate it to fatphobia as a fat person. I am a fat person. I have intense fatphobic thoughts about myself and sometimes catch myself having fatphobic thoughts about others. I have been working on it for years and continue to do so. No one is perfect.

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Cherry on top: pushing that we should have it all figured out as adults, when some stuff we don’t even become aware of until our late teens OR until we become adults. Like, you expect us to know everything, but we haven’t been taught or exposed to everything. NOT EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE SAME PACE!!! Some of us genuinely don’t know what’s going on and never had the guidance we needed to figure things out.

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