I experienced a period of difficulty. There was a sense of unsteadiness as the foundation of my dogmatic world view crumbled under me, but also there was a sense of betrayal. I felt lied to by everyone, as though family and friends had conspired to trick me. And I had difficulty for a long time respecting believers. Eventually I let go of that negativity and just realized that indoctrination is systemic and even traps people who are otherwise quite intelligent. I no longer feel like people were trying to hurt me in some way.

The transition was not difficult. My mother had a hard time with it for a while but then understood it after she read about Mormonism and how it came about. Over all my life has been better.

It was gradual for me. I kind of drifted away. No one seemed to notice or care.

I have said many time son this site already, that it is pretty easy to give up the beliefs, but really hard to give up the sense of community and belonging (which to me is the only positive thing religions provide). You have to create a whole new social circle from scratch, and by the time you leave, everyone else seems to already have groups of friends to socialize and do things with, while you are alone. That is the hardest aspect to leaving a religion.

No, my adjustment was uneventful. I suppose that's mostly because I kept my views pretty much to myself for 50 years. I was afraid of losing my born-again Christian family, my friends and possibly my job. Now that I'm retired, I'm O-U-T, OUT and I'm loving it.

Be cause I de-converted as a kid my toughest thing to deal with was the ridicule of the other children and the adults telling me I was wrong and I needed to submit to the will of god. I had supportive parents that believed that religion was a personal choice and respected mine. I endured a lot of bullshit for about 7 years in school and at 4H but, by 15 I was too big and strong for the deluded to even have enough nerve to speak in a derogatory manner to.

Atheism has never been difficult for me. I became an Atheist between 10-12. My family were not really religious and all became atheists after I did. Many of my friends are Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, non religious or non-traditional ( Pagan)

I voted "Other"

I just hailed from Muslim background it was life threatening to me.

I have found meetup groups in the last year and made some really good friends. We actually socialize, besides going to meetup events. It has really helped to being able to speak with like minded people.

You don't have option for No. I was quite relieved that I no longer had to try to make sense out of nonsense.

When you are out in the rural areas or don't have any local connections, that is tough. The only connections you really have are either thru FB groups, here or in a city far far away.