I personally was never part of the LDS church. One of my aunts and her family are LDS. Her Mom, my grandmother, was a jack Mormon. My great-grandparents and their parents were LDS, originally immigrants who moved to Utah & So. Idaho in the 19th century. I have a wealth of LDS writings from that time period on.
I have a distant relative who wrote a novel of what it was like to live as a plural wife; she was socially disenfranchised from the LDS church after publishing it.
I have another friend who was @ BYU in the 80s and wound up flunking out of school because the BYU Health Center did not properly diagnose his broken arm. I attended an LDS baptism in the 1980s in North Hollywood, where I saw a woman be baptized 3x because the LDS authorities deemed that the first two did not "take" (the first dunking in the tank was not done w/her birth name, but rather a nickname, so they had to redo it; the second dunking didn't take because she wasn't fully underwater...that was due to the fact that they started to let the water out after the initial dunking...she was a heavyset woman whose knees buckled when she tried to get fully under; the third dunking was worse than the second...but the authorities present showed mercy, after all, in letting it slide--the only act of mercy in an otherwise legalistic treatment of what was spiritually intended to be pure grace).