The EX-Amish.com guy

http://www.mrdeleted.com
888-MRDELETED
http://www.ex-amish.com
877-EXAMISH

To view the Amish videos, I set up a special link for you, http://www.swartzentruberam..., it will search for all my public Amish related videos, so you won't miss any. You can also use that little search box above my videos an type in Amish, that will show you the same results. You can also search for older videos there that somone may have told you I have.

For those of you wondering why my hair is so long, it is cause I am growing it for Locks Of Love (LOL), you can check them out at http://www.locksoflove.org

http://www.mrdeleted.com my home page for links to myspace etc.
http://www.ex-amish.com
http://www.swartzentruberamish.com for all my Amish videos.
I may do live blogs sometime, at this link:
http://www.chat.blox.tv

http://www.youtube.com/twinmaplus2 My wife
http://www.youtube.com/deletedjr My son Desperado
http://www.youtube.com/slabaughtwins Shannon & Cheyenne
http://www.youtube.com/twinlesstwins Laura

Other Former Amish YouTubers
http://www.youtube.com/JarleyHorse or http://www.mapministry.org
http://www.youtube.com/AmishDeception or http://www.amishdeception.com

few comments

The following convo was from one of my youtube viewers!

few comments
Mrdeleted,

I found your videos today on youtube ( I loved them) and I had to comment and if you don't mind ask a few questions.
I throughly enjoy watching your videos, letting others see into your life. Your children are beautiful. I can tell from your videos how proud you are of them.
I live in Oklahoma, we have an Amish population here however I think they are more relaxed then the order you were in as they have huge John Deere Tractors.
If you don't mind I would like to ask you some questions.
I couldn't see anywhere in your videos why you chose to be an ex-Amish, I would think the reasons were many and the choice was a hard one, but why did you choose to leave the Amish life?
I work with the developmentally delayed also known as mentally retarded. Were there a lot of children with developmental problems? Since there are not a lot of new converts to the Amish life I would think that in the Amish community family trees would sooner or later overlap so that genetic problems would be more frequent.
I watched "The Devils Playground" where do the Amish teenagers get the money to purchase cars, surely their parents don't buy them cars? I am surprised that Amish parents would allow cell phones in their homes. In that program it appeared that the parents let 16 year olds run wild, somehow I can't imagine this is the case. Can you tell me how the parents deal with this time in their children's life? I know according to the program its called rumspringa but surely parents prepare their children for this very important part of their life.
I have more questions but I would rather not overwhelm you with them.

Have a great day and thank you for allowing others to see your videos!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuo42qNI5k
Video attached that sort of descripes the reasons, ofcourse it was a long list of reasons, but I tried to give the main ones in there, if you have more questions about that, let me know... I would make a new video, but I am sort of sick today...
"Were there a lot of children with developmental problems?"

I was just talking about that to my mom, I had gone to see my brother's grave, and there was a full row of still borns, and to answer the question, retalitively, yes.

"Since there are not a lot of new converts to the Amish life I would think that in the Amish community family trees would sooner or later overlap so that genetic problems would be more frequent."

Exactly. I have 2 daughters with missing 8th chomosome, and my son is missing the 2nd, it comes from my wife who is missing the 8th too.

"I watched "The Devils Playground" where do the Amish teenagers get the money to purchase cars, surely their parents don't buy them cars?"

Well first, this is based on the Old Order Amish, so I assume they earn it on their own from their job.

"I am surprised that Amish parents would allow cell phones in their homes."

Well the Old Order Amish are allowed to have trucks, cell phones, and phone shacks, as lone as it is not brought in the home. The one OO I worked for had a truck, but in the nabour's name, and had me drive it. They had a cell phone, but could not take it in the house, and they had a phone booth outside their home.


"In that program it appeared that the parents let 16 year olds run wild, somehow I can't imagine this is the case. Can you tell me how the parents deal with this time in their children's life?"

Well again this was the Old Orders. New Orders do not have such a proble with this as the OO and SA (Swartzentruber Amish). Each of these 3 "major" groups (I say that cause there are many sub groups under the 3), treat this differently. The SA do not allow as much in this time as the OO, and the NO are more close to their kids, which im my opinion is why they have less of these problems. And it appears to be that the bond between the NO and their kids in more real then the OO or the SA. Therefore the 2 later groups are more of a "repressed" group, and end up acting out more rather then stay close to the family.