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silencesoloud860322 karma

Holy shit you sound like me. I'm 23 and was in the same boat as you regarding homeschooling, especially the having to teach myself science. I was lucky enough to find friends (get a job, look for the other nonreligious people at church and shit :P) and meet girls (I actually went to both junior and senior prom) but it took a while. Didn't have a graduation back then but I did just last weekend when I graduated college. My best friend and my girlfriend watched me walk across that stage and that meant infinitely more to me than that my parents were there. My social life these days is much more active than a lot of my friends' who went to a regular school and I know so many people that people forget I didn't go to school with them. Once you're done with that bullshit you'll forget you were homeschooled in no time as long as you're keeping busy with work and whatever friends you have. It sucks hella balls but if you work at it it does get easier.

silencesoloud86035 karma

No problem, seeing this AMA really hit close to home (no pun intended). Down to the "exploring creation with ___" science books lol. If it makes you any less nervous, I got accepted at every college I applied to and I didn't have to do any extra bullshit (although acing the SAT might have had something to do with it :P). Just give them a decent admissions essay and you should be fine. Feel free to PM me if you have questions about dealing with it or just need to bitch about shit.

silencesoloud86032 karma

Also if it interests you, I took biological anthropology (study of human evolution) my freshman year. If you want I can see if I still have my notes from the class, although I don't know how easy to follow they'd be without the textbook. Should help to reteach at least a bit of bio.

silencesoloud86031 karma

Congrats on being able to shake it! It took me a while too, I was semi-Christian until I was 17 or so and I didn't come out as nonreligious to my family until I was 18 and that was by accident (my mom found me on Facebook). Would you say you still have some residual religious guilt fucking with your head occasionally?