Unless you're better at it than me...SHUT UP!!!

[Samantha_Peterson]

My mother just makes me so irritated sometimes. She expects me to be the best student in school, get all A's, and have a reason for every single little choice and mistake I make. I admit that I am failing AP Physics, but out of the 30+ people taking the class there are only 7 people passing it. I don't care about the class either because I'll have to retake it in college regardless of whatever I make on the AP exam and I have told her this several times. My GPA is high enough for me to get the HOPE scholarship (3.83) and I am applying for other scholarships as well. COULD SHE STOP TALKING ABOUT IT NOW?!?! I know I'm failing Physics but I am also passing everything else with a high B or and A. And she doesn't even care that I raised my grade significantly in AP Calculus, all she sees is the one failing class.

And when she asks why I got a bad grade on something, I say that I must have not known the material well enough. Then she berates me for it and takes away my priviliges to use the computer and xbox that I paid for out of my own money as an incentive to do better.

She never took away any priviliges from my sister. She never failed a class but she did take easier classes than I did. I'm trying not to compare us but all I hear from her is, "Well, Janet never failed a class" and "Janet always turned her work in on time." STOP COMPARING US!!! If you want to compare then, let's compare.

1) She never had the added stress of being in the wrong body
2) She never took AP classes
3) She barely passed Spanish, whereas I made a high B for both 1 and 2
4) She is going to be an Archivist, I'm going to be a video game graphics engineer
5) She never defended her opinion while talking to you, I did
6) She went to private school, I go to public school
7) She never had the amount of after school activities that I do

Do I really need to go on? Do I really need to point out everything that says we can't be compared? Why can't you accept that while I won't have a 4.0 graduating from high school, I'll at least have a 3.8?



Sorry, I just needed to post this here. I don't really have the nerve right now to tell my mother all of this.

[Samantha_Peterson]

Want me to kidnap her and leave her credit cards behind? 

Ah, if only...

Though she's still married and my dad my wonder what happened to her....

[Janet_Girl]

Kidnapped by aliens, for genetic experimentations. 

[Jam]

I think i'd have to tell her to be honest. Tell her you don't appreciate the amount of pressure she's putting on you as it makes you resent your school work and put less effort into it. Tell her your schooling is important to you and you will try harder to pick up your grade if she can try not to lecture you so much about it.

Try not to make it into an argument, she does only want the best for you.

[V M]

She ran away to fulfill a lifelong secret dream to live a jungle among apes

Actually, she sounds allot like my mom... But I had two sisters and a plethora of others to be compared to

[Arch]

Sympathy vibes, Samantha. I suppose it's too late in the school year for a tutor to do any good?

My mother used to compare me to my brother, who was neater and more mature...uh, he was six and a half years older, too. But it really galled me when I needed braces and she pointed out that my brother hadn't needed them (I felt so guilty that I actually apologized for sucking my thumb for so many years). Then I needed glasses and it was, "Your brother never needed glasses." For this I had no answer. How could I possibly have any control over my less-than-perfect vision? Not to mention that SHE wore glasses.

Mothers. Ya gotta...well, live with them until you don't have to live with them anymore.

[Samantha_Peterson]

Sympathy vibes, Samantha. I suppose it's too late in the school year for a tutor to do any good?

My mother used to compare me to my brother, who was neater and more mature...uh, he was six and a half years older, too. But it really galled me when I needed braces and she pointed out that my brother hadn't needed them (I felt so guilty that I actually apologized for sucking my thumb for so many years). Then I needed glasses and it was, "Your brother never needed glasses." For this I had no answer. How could I possibly have any control over my less-than-perfect vision? Not to mention that SHE wore glasses.

Mothers. Ya gotta...well, live with them until you don't have to live with them anymore.

Well I graduate on May 28th...and I don't have to go to school for the week beforehand. So yeah, the tutor won't do any good.