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The now year-old man grew up in a Wisconsin Amish community before leaving at age Now he's helping a teenager who has left the community as well.
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Former WI man finds acceptance after leaving Amish family
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — John Shrock was 17 when he decided to flee his Amish community in Wisconsin after facing the pressure of "constantly trying to live up to perfection."
Shrock, now living in North Dakota, grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm in an Amish community says he's found the acceptance he's been searching for after leaving his family.
"If you want to go to heaven, you have to be a good Amish kid," Shrock, now 24, told KVRR-TV .
"So I tried to be the best."
Being Amish
Shrock came from very strict Old Order Amish—no technology, no electricity, using horses and buggies with "tons of rules about what color the buggies could be," Shrock wrote on his website, www.johshrock.com.
"I honestly didn't hate being Amish until I was about 16 years old," Shrock explained on the website.
He started to "think like a teen" and didn't want to comply with the "thousands of rules that you constantly had to listen to." He was "
