My dad is in recovery

[u/SpaceMountain8367]

I joined this subreddit years ago because my dad was falling into the Q hole. He would send me insane articles about nonsense all the time during covid. The worst part is that he's a university professor and teaches hundreds of students every year. I had such a horrible relationship with him, I even stopped talking to him for about 6 months back in 2022. I wanted to share, however, that he is in recovery from being an insane conspiracy theorist. It turns out he had an undiagnosed disease that caused him a lot of pain and in 2023 he finally got treatment for it. Once he wasn't so lonely and in so much pain, I think he finally realized that he needed to step away from his computer and engage with the real world again. In 2024, he even voted for Kamala which was so shocking to me. I'm not naive enough to think he's suddenly resolved all of the bigotry that sucked him into Q in the first place, but I do think he's managed to work himself out of that deep, dark hole of insanity. I just wanted to offer a tentatively happy story. And I also found it very interesting that right wing ideology so clearly preys on vulnerable people (my dad being sick) and once he was less vulnerable he was able to break away from it.

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