my parents how do i get them to understand?

ok i’m 13 and i love my parents but they don’t understand me and sometime i just think they want me to be someone i’m not i come for a very goody two shoe type family my older sister is get her phd right now my dads a doctor and my mom a nurse so you could say i’m the black sheep because and i want to do with my life is because a singer but my mom doesn’t what to take that my mom thinks i’m the worst child because i have c in algebra which is not my best subject i understand how important school is but why does my mom say i want nothing in life when i sat there and told her what i wanted the only person who understands is my dad and he only understands a little he wanted to be a singer to till his parents told him no please he me explain to my parents that i’m not a bad child just different form what they want

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Why Me?

I was just like any other 14 year old, I loved to play basketball, I hung with my friends, I listened to music and I thought the lead cheer leader was smoking hot. My classmates all thought I was a shoe in for the high school basketball team.
It was the last game of the season and we were in the locker room. I started to feel kind of dizzy, but I just brushed it off thinking it was nerves. “Come on Jesse, come on.” My team chanted away. I was pumped and led the team out to the roars of our classmates and family.
We started to play and boy did we play. We were in a tie 66-66 and I had the ball, I was dribbling down the court when I noticed that the whole gym was spinning around me. I tried to stop but instead fell face first on to the floor. I lost the ball it rolled away, someone else picked it up. I really wished it was my team. I looked around nervously to see the other team sink the ball.
The buzzer went signaling the end of the game, I tried to get up but as soon as I moved my head nausea washed over me, and I puked all over the court. I could feel the accusing eyes of our school and the nervous eyes of there parents. The next few minutes were fuzzy, all I remember was my couch pulling me up and then it went blank and I was unconscious.
I woke up at my house on the couch but I couldn’t move and I couldn’t talk. My mom must have seen me struggling because she came up beside me. She told me I had passed out at the game last night. When I tried to tell her I couldn’t move she got worried and called my father to help her get me too the car, she drove me to the hospital. When we got there a nurse came out with a wheelchair and helped my dad get me into it. They brought me to see my doctor who took some blood to do some tests.
The next day they called us back to the hospital and said they needed to do some more tests, and that they needed me to stay in the hospital. We agreed and they gave me a small curtained off room and some new clothes. The doctor came back after about an hour and said they needed to test my bone marrow.
I just figured these were normal tests I never thought my life would change forever. It hurt; taking the bone marrow. He had a big needle and stuck it in my lower back. I was really weak after that and slept for a while. I woke up a few times. The first time I saw my mom and the doctor talking. The second time I was alone. Finally I yanked my eyes open, and again fell asleep.
When I finally woke up my mother was beside me and she looked as if someone had punched her in the chest. She told me that I had leukemia and that I needed to start chemotherapy as soon as possible.
She also said the nurse had told her that I would lose all of my hair. I started to cry, I just couldn’t understand why it had to be me who got cancer, I had so much to live for. I was going to get a basketball scholarship and go to the NBA when I was older. Now I wasn’t so sure.
The next few weeks went by in a blur, I was really sick after I got chemo and lived in my bathroom, barely eating. I would wakeup in the morning to find my pillow covered in hair, and after my baths I would see chunks of hair going down the drain.
My mom took me to the barber shop to get my head shaved so I wouldn’t look so bad, my bro tagged along for support and he was going to meet his friends at the mall. When the barber was done I looked into the mirror and felt so sad, it finally hit me how truly sick I was. Just then my brother jumped into the seat next to me and ordered the barber to shave his head just like mine. He told me that he didn’t want me to be alone and that this was the best he could do to show it. I new how fond of his hair he was so giving it up was huge for him and it really touched me how much he loves me. I new I couldn’t let him down I had to get better, I just had to.
The children’s wish fund came to see me and said I could have one wish, and that it didn’t matter what it was. They just wanted me to be as happy as possible. I told them that I wanted to go meet Kobe Bryant he was my all time favorite basket ball player. He won 10 National titles with the Lakers, won 3 dunk contests, he also has a Cinderella story basketball career: cut from high school team and went on to play only a freshman year at the Saint mary’s college, then was drafted into the NBA. That was all I ever wanted to do. So they arranged it, I was going for a two day trip to meet him.
But something happened and they wouldn’t tell me what, they felt really bad and decided to send us to Canada’s wonderland instead. It was awesome.
Soon I started to get stronger again so the doctors gave my parents the medical bill, it was a lot, way more then we could afford and if I ever had a relapse we would go bankrupt. But my school started to do some fundraisers and raised 568.00 for me. It gave me so much happiness to now people cared this much about me, and
Im sorry ’bout that i kinda ran out of room :P
and wanted me to get better, they sent me cards sporting famous basketball players.
I was going to get better so I could play basketball again.
The story about my school made national news and then the donations just started to pour in. We had enough to pay for all my medical bills plus enough to send me to a basketball camp.
When I was there I couldn’t run as long as everyone else and I had to stop playing by the third quarter. Finally I went to talk to my coach I told her all about my sickness and why I couldn’t play as long. I started to cry. She told me that I was one of the best players she had ever had on this team.
I met another boy my age that was just transferred to my hospital when I got back. We spent all our days together and played Nintendo. We became best friends and were as close as brothers.
One day my teacher pulled me aside from the other students and told me Brad had died. That scared me, he had the same kind of cancer I had and he didn’t beat it. I went to his

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“Mom is it money that you need?” I asked exhaustingly.
“Don’t you use that tone with me, where is my son in law” she slurred .
Clearly she was drunk.
“He’s not here maybe you should try his cell phone”
“He’s not answering and I know you’re lying to me!” she yelled.
“I’m not lying at all!” I knew this would turn into an argument so I just stayed silent.
You would have thought Jason was her son and I was the unwanted daughter in law.
“You just tell him I called” she snapped attempting to slam the phone down unsuccessfully. I ended the call. My mother has always been a severe alcoholic. I called it her truth juice. When she was sober she rarely showed emotion or exspressed herself. While drunk she told me what I always suspected. I was a mistake and she wished I was never born. The reason my dad ran away was because of me. Her endless would have, should have, could have done things better. I heard all of this at the age of ten but could sense the hate looking into her eyes. If looks could kill I’d be dead. The fact that I looked like my dad whom I never met seemed to disgust her more. Everything was horrible until I met Jason. I was told I was beautiful, I was told I was loved and it contributed to my confidence. Which is not where I want it to be but better off than it was. I’ve been dating Jason since I was seventeen. Last year of high school and the best year of my life. I was known as the dirty girl not that I could help not being able to afford brand name clothes and shoes like the rest of my classmates. I wore a striped shirt a lot because it was all I had next to a few other items. I don’t wear stripes to this day because of how bad I was traumatized by my peers. Well when I met Jason he provided me with the best brand name clothes, shoes, and a nice place to stay opposed to my mother’s unfit home. He bought my mother a condo in exchange of her letting me her minor child live with him. In a way he became my twenty four year old guardian. It was strange but I for once felt loved. Not so much by his wealthy family. He tried everything in his might to cover my past but somehow his arrogant father who happens to be a political figure at ran a background check on my whole life. I was nothing more than a poor public school educated girl with a mom with history of alcohol related arrests from the projects. I appreciated that Jason was willing to go against his dad’s wishes and accept me for who I was. What I was trying to do now was have him accept me for where I wanted to go in life. I’ve always dreamt of being a registered nurse. In some way help everyone in need and the healthcare field was where I wanted to grow professionally. I also planned to open up a group home for children who were exposed to abuse of every sort. I could relate and know how much their young minds needed to be nurtured. The problem was the Jason didn’t want me to work which prevented my schooling. The first year I let Jason he persuaded me to put school off and travel the World with him. That was a lovely experience. When the second year came around he made up more excuses as to why I should just skip college and let him be the man. I adapted to the lifestyles of the rich but it in no way filled my void. Jason surprisingly became abusive as time progressed. I started to feel more like an over protected daughter moreso than a lover. So I became sneaky to get my way like a rebellious teenager. While Jason thought I was having tennis lessons I was attending college part time. This year was my last and I was going to let Jason know. I was going to be a Nurse. He was either going to accept it or reject it

“You should be as good as Serena Williams for as long as you’ve been playing tennis” Jason laughed.
I was in the middle of class and had to wrap the conversation quickly.
“I am” I forced a laugh and felt a little guilty at the same time for lying these past years but I was almost done.
“Look babe we were kind of in the middle of an important lesson I’ll cal you in twenty minutes tops’ I told him.
“Well I was calling to see if you’d leave early my sister has come out from California and she is dying to meet you she’s not staying long.”
“Ok” I agreed just to get him off the phone and hurried back to class.
My teacher and I had also formed and outside relationship. It was unusual but she was super cool and very intelligent. I looked up to her like a young girl should look up to her mother. She didn’t look a day over thirty amazingly yet she was in her fifties full of energy. She knew all about my situation. I had to vent somewhere other than my best friend Courtney who was about to get married and start a family. Courtney never cared for Jason she felt he was stuck up, selfish and controlling. She didn’t care to hear me discuss him I felt but like a friend she’d listen anyway. My teacher totally understood me. It was shocked to here her story

Stress & fighting….how can we keep our relationship strong through these hard times?

I’ve been with my fiance for 5 years and we have a wonderful 3-year-old son. We’re both 22, been together since we were 17. He’s a great man, treats me well and he’s honestly the best dad I’ve ever seen! Our relationship was almost perfect for a long time. But things are going downhill and it’s really taking a toll on our relationship.

My fiance’s dad died 6 years ago. He has two little brothers-ages 8 and 12. His mom won’t get a job and tries to live off her husband’s social security checks but it’s obviously not working because she’s still broke as hell. She just mooches off the government and her son. My fiance got his first job when he was 17 and she always took his entire paycheck. Now that we have a baby, she doesn’t take all of his money, but about half. We have a child to take care of, why can’t she just get a job and stop taking our money?? I understand my fiance wanting to help her out, but it will never end. It’s not like we’re set with our money…I’m a college student so we still live paycheck to paycheck. The rest of his family doesn’t really like me because I’m white and they’re Samoan. There are so many things about their culture that I don’t understand or I don’t agree with. Oh and they all love to gossip…there are so many made up rumors about us.

Anyway, my fiance’s mom has been in the hospital since November. It started out with diabetes related issues. For awhile we thought she wasn’t going to make it. Thankfully, her health has improved…but she’ll never be able to talk or eat again (only through a tube.) She can’t drive anymore and will need 24 hour care. The whole time she was in the hospital, my fiance and I have been taking care of his little brothers. I was kind of excited at first because they’re so poor that there is a lot they haven’t experienced in life. When their mom was around all they did was sit in the house and play video games all day. She never helped them with homework, they don’t have books they can read, she never told them to shower or brush their teeth etc. They had lice infested hair so we got that taken care of & got their hair cut, bought them new outfits and shoes, books, helped with their homework, took them places & made them shower every night. Yet, they are very rude and ungrateful kids. They are very disrespectful and I’ve been trying to be patient and work with them on this. One of the biggest problems is that the 8-year-old craps in his pants EVERY SINGLE DAY. My fiance always got calls from the school nurse saying that his little brother needs a change of clothes because he pooped in his pants! And the kid never even feels bad about it…he goes about his day with poop in his pants and WE smell it and tell him to go change! He will NEVER tell us that he did it, we always have to discover it on our own. This is so hard for me. This one also had behavorial issues in school.

On top of all this, my mom had a heart attack three weeks ago. If she would’ve waited 30 min, she would’ve died. And my dad has been an alcoholic for the past 2 years…he went to rehab last week. It’s just hard on me, I love my parents so much.

There are other issues in our life, including debt that my fiance’s mom caused him about a year ago (using HIS NAME on something) but I don’t want to get into all that.

I’m just stressed out, I have other friends that complain about their relationships & I wish they could just see that they don’t have it so bad. I’m a 22-year-old college student…I’d LOVE to only have to worry about my baby boy & my school work! We’ve been fighting so much for the past 7 months…I think it’s mainly STRESS.
How can we get through this without hurting our relationship?
up4more- we live in our OWN house, not with his mom.

Don't you think this brutally honest poem my mom recently wrote "tells it like it is"?

Why Still Such A Stigma?

"Story Of The Mentally Ill":

This is a story of the mentally ill
Stuck away in hospitals against their will
Beaten and abused
Lost and confused
Forsaken by family, God, and man
Trying to survive as best as they can
Trying to live week to week
Tears in their eyes-afraid to speak
Treated mean by doctors, nurses, and patients they meet
Worse than a homeless person on the street
Shunned by friends and family
They roam these halls lost and lonely
Waiting for a kind word from staff or family
I know because it happened to me
All they do is over medicate
You take a pill for stress and insanity
I know because it happened to me
It doesn’t matter if you have wealth
It doesn’t matter if you have bad health
Rich or poor is the same you see
All you get is a look of pity
Shunned by friends and family who just don’t care
When all you need is for them to be there
This is your fate if you are labeled crazy
I know because it happened to me
All of this happened to me-it’s true
When you are labeled crazy
In this mental zoo

by Lora’s mom (whom LORA got every speck of her talent from*) September 09

*** Being mentally ill does not mean that you can’t be both intelligent and extremely talented-GIFTED-even an GENIUS! Some of the most creatively gifted "GENIUS" people alive on this planet are somewhat insane! I saw the bruises on my mom’s frail body (& I later read her entire journal). Both my mother’s "sisters" had the NERVE to say to my mother (and to me) that my mother threw herself against a wall! (That isn’t what happened.) I handed over to the people who investigate these types of things the entire contents of the journal my mom kept when she was recently locked up in McLean’s mental hospital in Ma. There is still "surprisingly" a terrible, terrible STIGMA on mental illness. In case anybody out there reading this is "worried" that Lora has somehow "betrayed" her mother-I have not betrayed my mom in any way. My mom asked me to put her poem out in cyberspace. ***Neither Lora nor her mother give one flying f what the rest of the "so called" family thinks or wants kept "quiet"….. "God Forbid You Ever Had To Walk A Mile In Her Shoes … (EVERLAST) *My "aunt" L (who USED to be my good friend but SADLY turned into another "auntie" M") had the AUDACITY to say to my mother (in response to my mother’s incredible poem called "STORY OF THE MENTALLY ILL") "Mental hospitals are not like that, E". You have NEVER been "locked up" in a mental hospital, L! (Sarcasm intended.) Who does anybody think that they are telling anybody else what they have or have not suffered in this life? Lora has NEVER been in either jail or a mental hospital (for any length of time) but would Lora ever say to a human being who had been in one of those places (for any length of time) "Those places are not like that"? How could my aunt L say that to my poor mother? It blows my mind-the AUDACITY of too many people on this planet! (Sarcasm Intended-anger suppressed-to avoid my own incarceration!)

Help..I am scared..AGAIN..?

I have had 3 m/c one at 6 weeks, one at 4 weeks, and one at 10 weeks ( in August)..my doctor ran all the tests after the 2nd one and said that I have MTHFR gene (she didn’t specify what type nor did she offer any help as of what I should do) I know I live in a big city but dang I was paying full price out of pocket just to see her..but I digress, after my last m/c which was a blighted ovum she told me nothing had formed and for me just to wait it out, 2 weeks later I finally m/c’d and had to be admitted to the hospital 24 hours after one of her nurses told me just to DEAL with the pain of miscarrying a 11 week pregnancy..(it does not feel good at all) luckily i had one of the BEST ER doctors at Harris Methodist SW in FW…Anyway, it is December 22, and I am week late to scared to take a test (i have heart burn and nausea), I am tired of being mistreated, and I am scared of what will happen next..and quite frankly I DO NOT wish to ever see my worthless obgyn (rated best in Texas, my @$$)..I just want a healthy pregnancy and I want a DR that can help me..and I do not want to be this scared and live in fear of another m/c..but I find myself scared and possibly pregnant again..BTW I want to have a healthy pregnancy so bad, but after 3 m/c I just live in fear of being pregnant, I just need some advice or some words of wisdom, or someone to talk to…Please no one judge me unless you have walked in my shoes and know the pain I feel..
Um actually SUPER MOM you rude @$$ I cannot take b/c beacause I run a risk of blood clots..How about you don’t answer questions if you are going to be a total B word when answering…

Does he like me, or is he just trying to be nice?

What could our convo mean? (IM CONVO)?
6/12/2010
4:50 PMLewis:
i went to the mall and saw welisha
……………………………………………………………………4:50 PMGenesis:
thats awsome
……………………………………………………………………4:51 PMLewis:
i know i couldnt think of anything to talk about
……………………………………………………………………4:51 PMGenesis:
haha you could of like complimented her on like her chlothes or something….
……………………………………………………………………4:52 PMLewis:
i said nice shoes and we huged thats it
and the sad part about it is we go out
Genesis:
aww. you just left….. after a hug? and i know she told me 2 days ago i think or 3 idk
……………………………………………………………………4:56 PMLewis:
naw like i was getin a smoothie and she came up to me and say hey and then we talked alittle and then my smoothie was ready and we huged again and we left
Genesis:
kk. and smothies are awsome(:
……………………………………………………………………4:59 PMGenesis:
so whatcha doin? im so bored i decided to do math work…. I HATE math….. i HAte it…
……………………………………………………………………4:59 PMLewis:
your still in school
……………………………………………………………………5:01 PMGenesis:
homeschool. i got taken out of the second semester at opjh cus of problems with the nurse… she hated me, shed let someone go home because they stubbed their toe, but id have a feverm and be throwing up and shed send me back to class…. i hated her more than i hate math. so im alsmot done, i have like 2 more weeks… :/
Lewis:
u should go to jeb
……………………………………………………………………5:03 PMGenesis:
im going there next year i think, my mom says i drive her crazy cus im home all day…. haha
……………………………………………………………………5:03 PMLewis:
haha
u might get some borin classes or fun classes
Genesis:
yup.
……………………………………………………………………5:05 PMLewis:
hope u get the fun classes
……………………………………………………………………5:06 PMGenesis:
you mean the one with all the crazy people. i want those too :p
Lewis:
hahaha
……………………………………………………………………5:07 PMGenesis:
i think wileshias also going to jeb next year… im not sure
……………………………………………………………………5:07 PMLewis:
yea
……………………………………………………………………5:08 PMGenesis:
mmmhmm. i think the only thing i would not like about going to jeb would be riding the bus…. anthony rides the bus…. hes annoying :/
……………………………………………………………………5:09 PMLewis:
well u can walk over to the other side by texico and ride my bus
……………………………………………………………………5:10 PMGenesis:
ok(: but i think i may get run over by cars at some point during the school year i walk to slow for them to stop for me haha
……………………………………………………………………5:11 PMLewis:
i can see if my aunt can pick u up in the morning

……………………………………………………………………5:11 PMGenesis:
my mom would probably drive me…. it would be too much work for your aunt…. i dont wanna make her go back anf forth and back and forth and bakc and forth… and forth….
……………………………………………………………………5:12 PMLewis:
true
……………………………………………………………………5:12 PMGenesis:
yup(:
Lewis:
well u can find somthing
……………………………………………………………………5:15 PMGenesis:
yeah. ill ind a dragon that can take me over there but i guess my mom would be fine with me walking… i could learn to run so i dont get run over…..
find*
……………………………………………………………………5:16 PMGenesis:
ohmehgawsh… you got a belt buckle you can write on? thats friggin awsome
!

(i know he got it cus its in his status) an after that he stopped talking. did i say something wrong?
my best friend is also his girlfriend at the moment, but thats not gonna last…. she told me so herself, she says he gets boring, i dont know why, hes not boring at all…..

also hes my best guy friend
Im asking this because he asked me to ride his bus, and hes been inviting me everywhere this week.. the mall, his house, a pool party……

what do i do with my verbally abusive mother?

ok, so i’m 14 and my mom is always putting me down. not like saying oh you such a bad kid get out of my site. but she is always calling me a stupid b****, telling my i should f****** kill myself, saying she would if she could. never compliments me. always tells me im an overweight fatso. when im a size 0-2. and loads more. she gooes off at the LITTLEST things. like for example of my shoes were on the floor she would start going crazy. like the other night i accidently threw out the left overs of the dinner ( a quick pre-made orange chicken and rice!) she went nuts; calling me a worthless b**** saying i have no common sense saying to come down when i stop shoving my fat ugly face with food..? i cry myself to sleep a lot and question why she hates me so much. i recently gave u and just don’t care. it’s effecting my school work and i dont know what to do. i’ve been star student 3 times in a row and when i decided to tell her this last time she yelled at me and told me to get out of her face. i’ve vented to my extremely trustworthy best friend and this year for the first time had a breakdown and had to come to school ballling the nurse got a nurse but i couldnt tell her anything. if i did i would be killed by my mom. can i trust my counselor? i don’t want to say anything cause it’s too embarressing**. my oldest sister stands up for me yelling at my mom thats shes a bad mom and that she should never talk to a kid saying she hates them and wishes they would die. but now shes in college. :[ my mom has stripped allof my self esteem and has made me hate myself. i hate looking in the mirror now and i constantly apply makeup to my ‘ugly face’. please give me advice. BUT TALKING TO MY MOM OR DAD IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. i am also sry for any errors in my writing i had to type this fast b/c my mom is yelling at me and i need to get downstairs. please help <3
i’ve never told anyone about this, but i know its safe to say on here. i truly don’t want to be perceived as wanting attention, but i honestly don’t know where else to go to for real advice. the open public has real people, and i want to thank everyone for their kind support. i hope everyone stays safe and lives well, sarah <3

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