Untangling My Mind: The Lessons I am Reteaching Myself After Being Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness

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My family became Jehovah’s Witnesses when I was in the first grade. Before that we weren’t super religious, never went to any kind of church, but we still celebrated holidays and birthdays. With the onset of this new religion, I remember suddenly being faced with a long list of things I was no longer allowed to do. Holidays…