Good for you. Most MAGA wont be making sexual identity changes and waking up. They will have to be personally hurt by polices made and escape the propaganda that it's the Dem's fault.

A hard road to travel. Glad you got out, welcome to reality.

Congrats on the growth and self reflection, hallmarks of a good person

“Proud to be an American 🇺🇸” “Trump is a good guy! My dad told me!” Was how I acted 😭

It's called empathy .... the ability to see and understand the world through the perspective of someone else or another group of people.

It doesn't mean you are necessarily sensitive or emotional ... it just means you have an ability to see the world through the eyes of someone else. Once you do that, you begin to understand why people are the way they are and why things are the way they are. You begin to understand that the world is full of complex problems full of complex people and nothing is ever simple and straight forward. You begin to realize that the best way to deal with the world is through mutual understanding, communication, awareness, constant connection and a neverending need to want to learn more.

It's always nice to see another young person like you make that change. It's a sign of hope that the world in the future can change for the better.

Dude thank goodness people like you exist

Is it fair to say that since you had to face these queer thoughts in your personal life, that made a big difference?

Most people are a part of the cis-straight majority, so they many never have to face the questions you did. How hard do you think it is for a Trump supporter like that to reconsider their stance?

I think I was about 11 when I hit the youtube conservative rabbit hole, 12 when I started improving. Main context is this: my dad has always been conservative, and he loved(s) Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson. My mom and her family are vaguely democrats (not leftists, they don't actually give a shit about anyone). All of my family is believing Mormons.

When I was 11, I got my mom's old iPhone. Obviously, I started watching youtube videos, and as the algorithm has done so many times before, I ended up being served with Isaac Butterfield videos about "schoolboys being forced to apologize to female classmates for rape", and "etsy store owner makes tiny wool penis prosthetics for transgender infants", which are both obviously bullshit. Maybe it was the fact that I'm just really neurodivergent, but my reactions never went any further than, "huh, that's weird". I never hated queer people, and I didn't say anything crazy to anyone.

When I was about 12, I started to stop believing in Mormonism and religion in general, after watching some videos from this ex-Jehovah's Witness called Owen (Morgan?). Then one of the teachings gave me so much shame that I spent a couple years hating myself so much that I either had to stop believing or stop living. Then I heard stories from ex-Mormons about the actual crimes and hatred and genocide, and I was just flabbergasted. I learned that there were secret temple rituals, and that I wasn't even supposed to know that they exist. Anyways, when I started disbelieving in that, that spread to the other stuff my parents taught me. I wasn't a good person by any means, but I could recognize that there was no point in listening to my parents about anything, just from the fact that they can excuse child rape from a man that they claim to have been a prophet of God.

I watch(ed) tons of gay shit on youtube, and saw that Then I actually met queer people, they were pretty chill. Then I became friends with some. Now I have three diagnoses and I'm aroace, so tha's cool.

So, yeah, be patient with more conservative teenagers, most of them probably haven't figured things out, and it's just their parents and church leaders speaking through them. God this is long, mb lol, I can delete it if you want. Glad that you had character growth!