Have your parents ever said something so unhinged that you’re just left standing there like🧍♂️?
Have your parents ever said something so unhinged that you’re just left standing there like🧍♂️?
Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department. My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit." I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.
We're not falling for your deceit, Noam Chomsky. You probably used some context-free grammar to hack the website.
You're in a masters program and your mom thinks you're lazy.....
Well, according to her, university degrees are all worthless nowadays and "a masters is at a level a high school degree used to be at". She also told me my As were worthless because "everybody gets an A nowadays just for showing up to class".
I have a lot of respect for you! Keep being motivated and being ambitious!
What are you supposed to do? Is there anything you could do that would be valuable in her eyes?
Nope. I've been no contact for years, but when I still had contact, she just kept moving the goalpost. When I had good grades in school: They don't mean anything, only the grades for Abitur (A-Levels) count. When I had good grades in Abitur: It means nothing, noone will ever ask for your Abitur grades again. Only the university degree counts. When I had my bachelors: Bachelor is worthless, only the master is a REAL degree. When I had my master degree: The master degree is worthless.... And that's the point where I cut contact with her.
"What do you mean you're working? You're just sitting in your room all day."
just like the trope of asian parents, not good enough.
don't we love a trusting parent