Reply #16: Never Confirmed

[Moochy]

I too was raised Catholic, and from my perspective, my catechism was very honest about the sacrament of confirmation. I suppose if my family had been more socially integrated into the parish and had been more image-conscious there might have been more pressure.

I didn't want go through my confirmation for the same reason you didnt want to go through yours. It wasn't a critical issue with my family. The other sacraments were mandatory, first communion, and confession. But I only went to confession once or twice after the mandatory ceremonial first one. I think I latched on to the optionality of both confirmation and confession and decided I had free will at a young age.

Just as a reference, my church was in the SF Bay Area, and I would have been confirmed around 1983-84.