FundieSnarkUncensored

Hello fellow Redditors! I'm Chad, aka "Arch Radish" on all the social medias. I spent most of my school years in the homeschooling branch of the Institute in Basic Life Principles known as the Advanced Training Institute. From around age 7 until I graduated at age 17, I studied primarily the ATI curriculum and all of Gothard's teachings. I experienced a LOT of emotional and physical abuse, along with general educational neglect. I spent my early childhood in Alabama until we moved to Belgium as "missionaries" after I turned 12. I spent my teen years mostly isolated in the homeschooling cult and primarily hung out with what few other ATI families were in Belgium at the time. After I graduated and spent some time in what we referred to as "The World", I learned of all the abuses that had happened in IBLP/ATI including those alleged to have been committed by Gothard himself. I then began a slow process of healing from the cult abuse that continues to this day thanks to patient therapists, good friends, and the platforms I've been lucky enough to share my story on. For the past couple of years, I've been working behind the scenes in sharing my story for Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets. It's been a long journey, but I'm proud to have this opportunity to share my story alongside other survivors so we can make everyone aware that IBLP is still out there, and still as abusive as ever. Ask me anything!

EDIT: Okay, all, it's been an amazing afternoon. I wish I could get to every question, but dinner beckons and the weekend is young.