Giftorcurse wrote:
The last six months of high school starts a week from now, and I'm not doing well grade wise. I can't have it, and I know my parents can't have it. They obsess over them. They only accept C's in math because its my worst subject, and they want B+s and above for EVERYTHING ELSE. They constantly talk down to me about my educational performance. My father considers me a "lazy dumbass" and that "you're not like your half-brother." My mother insists she wants me to get great grades so I can "follow your dreams," only she says that last part in a condescending, mocking sing-song tone. Do you know what its like to be guilt-tripped by your drunken mother in the middle of an Applebee's, knees shaking, not knowing when it'll escalate into another yelling free-for-all like what happens at the house? These are just highlights of what they say to me regarding my grades.
"You're lazy! You're spoiled!"
"You want to spend the rest of your life like the n****rs I work with in the Housing Authority?!"
"Don't get an attitude or I'll whup your ass so badly, you'll need to eat through a tube!! !"
"Shut the f**k up!! !"
"Who's the boss, here?"
"Stop your autism-looking-round sh** and look at my f****' face!"
Gift, my first recommendation to you would be not to use racial epithets or other degrading language, even in a quote. I'm not Politically Correct, so I don't think it's some kind of moral offense. But it is very poor manners. There is no need to be abusive toward others.
Beyond that, your parents sound like mine did when I was in my teens. At seventeen, you can be making your plans to get away from them, which likely either means school or a job.
11 Jan 2012, 8:00 am
