I live in a very dysfunctional family and, as of recently, have been having strained relationships with my father and step mother. My biological mother is unemployed (but actively seeking employment) and is the only real source of consolation from the flak I receive.
My step mother, although I love her dearly, has been recently treating me very badly. I am on the pinnacle of graduating high school as an honour student. Unfortunately, this is counter acted by severe social issues with my peers. I have been bullied and picked on because of my alien (outsider) views in a rural right-wing heavy neighborhood since third grade. I act very maturely whenever I can, approaching issues in my life with absolute deliberation, I am neither careless nor reckless in my approach. My step-mother believes I play the victim too often, because of the fact that I end up reacting to my peers taunts despite much energy on self control and do not take the bait mentality. She also is beside herself on little things with me, and we share polarized viewpoints, we rarely agree on very much anymore. For instance, I forgot to park off to the side at my grandparents and parked at the front door. When she came over to drop my brother off, she was livid, moved my car (would not let me do it) and took my keys away. It comes down to little things like that with her.
My father and I have a strained relationship because of differing viewpoints on lifestyles. He works very hard to feed me and my three siblings, but he depends heavily on financial support from my grandparents, who run a gourmet grocery. I have voiced that I want to live in a large foreign city one day and that I would never have had so many kids if I was unable to feed them well (he mostly cooks cheap, nutrient poor meals typical of pay check to pay check families) I also believe that he expects too much of me at times (academically) when technically I've done better than him in every class he ever took, and that I just don't test well compared to my peers.
This may be a rant, and I consider it to be one, but my step mother I know has medical issues. She takes medicine for depression and anger issues (she once flipped a table over a comment me and my biological brother made). Not to mention myself, which I've been able to self diagnose. I suffer from mild to severe depression, depending upon how a day goes for me. I also suffer from chronic anxiety and stutter, which only affects me when I am in agony, such as the time I had all my electronics de facto confiscated due to the fact I spent some money on some anemities and opened a checking account outside their control, I felt like prisoner in my own home for three weeks, being forced to do chores for other people in my home over a minor issue at best.
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