You are making a link between the search for a father figure and joining the cult. So it is true for you, and it may be as well for some others.

Cannot be generalized I think.

I also have made links out of some aspects of the cult:

...the secrecy. Not being able to tell others.

...the deceipt.

...another was a general aversion for "adults". My feeling being that this cult served this dislike. For me at least.

In it we were not able to grow, and remained stuck in some type of Peter Pan syndrome.

And that maybe, IMO, is something we shared more generally.

Not that everyone in it hated "adults" or the image of them, but yes stopped growing and remained in some stage of deluded infancy. At least at some level.

Just my opinion ok