[Serious] People who have successfully undergone gay/lesbian conversion therapy, why did you go, and how do you feel about the outcome?

Hola. Yeah, here to say the conversion crap is a hoax. Coming from a Pentecostal family that believes homosexuality is a literal demon, I’ve been through the ringer with hands-on praying, etc. Wouldn’t you guess, NONE of it stuck. I didn’t choose who I’m attracted to. I have chosen to live honestly with myself. Because let’s face it, nobody just wakes up one day and says to themselves:

“Ya know, I’m in a mood to piss off the majority of society, become ostracized, be humiliated, rejected, threatened, and shunned by people...even those I love most. Hell, I can’t think of anything better than having perfect strangers telling me how ‘wrong’ & disgusting I am. It’ll be a hell of a riot to be asked to leave certain establishments, too...because, people don’t want “my kind” contaminating their businesses. Hell yeah, sign me up for that!”

If someone is born attracted to their same sex/gender, no amount of therapy is going to uncross their wires. Because attraction itself is not wrong. Things have come a long way even since I first came to grips in year 2000. There are communities waiting with their arms open and ready to love people for who they are. The God I know & believe in would never be as cruel as society, and an overwhelming majority of “christians” today are. Sorry for the mini-novela. I’m just one of those whose coming out story was a complete nightmare; and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Not just bc of the way society may react, but also the way we punish ourselves, self-sabotage, and otherwise torture ourselves over something that we had no control over.

So, whoever you are, I hope you’re just posing a curious question and not looking for affirmation in going through conversion therapy. It. Never. Works. And if you’re someone looking for “positive” feedback so that you can impose this crap on someone else, you might want to sit down inside yourself and ask what the hell your problem is.

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