<p>@StudiousMaximus They should know how they lucky they are to have a kid like you. Using your dedication to academics as a tool against you… disgusting. </p>
<p>Idea: if you have a desktop, break it in some subtle way. Ask for a laptop. Take the laptop to a trusted friend’s house, preferably with parents that don’t know yours, and leave it there. Tell them you lost it, or something. Get a texting app online. Use it as a new number. Do you have a window? You can open it and leave through it if they lock you in your room. They can’t take the laptop, because it’s at a friend’s house. </p>
<p>No, that won’t work. Summer camps. </p>
<p>How about falling asleep in church? And snoring lightly? Every time? </p>
<p>Or, maybe not… How about this? Play along throughout high school. Get into a college on a full scholarship. USC and Vanderbilt offer these to their best admits. There are some other colleges that do, but I don’t know which ones. Go to those colleges on full scholarship. The Ivy league schools have better names, but really, that’s not as important as people think, and financial aid is based on parental income. Get your parents to sign everything they’ll have to sign. Then, when you’re safely at your new school (preferably one far away) leave them a voicemail in which you explain, calmly and without bitterness, how bad their attempt at religion indoctrination made them look, and explain that it made it far less likely for you to believe. Then, they can’t touch you. Your scholarship means that they won’t be able to hold funding up as a threat.</p>