How did you get such access to first hand knowledge of multiple peoples experiences at different places of worship?

Niche subreddits for medical conditions I can’t imagine anybody would spend the time of their days LARPing in, my own medical groups in which people tend to also face severe financial issues for a variety of reasons with ~30k combined people & ~5k active

Over 12 years of dealing with things myself & making friends along the way in person & online.

Spending countless nights trolling through comments in countless amounts of old threads of very vulnerable people trying to get away from things like domestic violence while also facing severely disabling medical issues (often but not limited to younger people with abusive parents somewhat controlling their lives via their disability) & reaching out to/begging quite literally wherever they’re able & overwhelmingly being turned away.

Of course, you can always say that they/I are LARPing & there’s not much I can do about that unfortunately.

If you’d like a bright side/silver lining to any of this - places that attract minorities/marginalized groups are often the most helpful (geeze, wonder why) & if shit ever truly hits the fan in your life, make your way to your nearest Sikh Gurudwara.

As long as you show the most basic humility & respect the few things they ask you to observe in their place of worship, they will go so far out of their way to try to help you in every way they can. Unfortunately, malicious people tend to take advantage of this in bigger cities & some are starting to get slightly jaded. I cannot blame them, such is life.

I’m not trying to say all religions orgs & charities are shit across the board. Perhaps it seemed that way. I’m just saying that they’re very much not as much of an answer that some of society seems to think they may be, & there are some truly awful people among them that will kick you harder when you’re already at your lowest point. (As with everywhere/everything)

I said "first hand" experience intentionally, and the reason is because the content that you're reading is going to be biased towards the people writing it. Just like anyone who is recollecting a bad situation and outcome, they are going to leave things out, misrepresent what was said, and sometimes straight up lie to take any blame off of themselves. They're not LARPing so much as they're extremely biased about what happened. I grew up in a Christian school, attending multiple churches, and I have NEVER once seen someone turned away in the way that you describe. Does that mean it doesn't happen? No, there are shitty people everywhere. But these places are known for bending over backwards to help vulnerable people, at least that has been my first hand experience.