By FudgyBatman • Score: 2 • April 5, 2025 10:17 PM
To start things off, I (18 F) have never really had the best relationship with my parents. Growing up they were toxic and abusive, to the point where CPS were called at least 5 times (I think it was 8 but I try to block out most of that time). My brother (13 M) was the planned child, and it always felt like they loved him more. It was always little things like him picking dinner, movies, activities, as well as just overall treating him better. I on the other hand was born while my parents were 17 and still in high school, and I don't think they ever really figured out how to parent me. Now on to the story. About 3 years ago, we moved from a pretty populated town to a house in the middle of nowhere, where the school has elementary, middle school and high school. I went from a high school with thousands of students, to a school with a graduating class being able to fit in a small room (IDK the exact number). Because there were so few people, everyone was essentially the same person copy and pasted (fake blonde hair with no distinguishable personality), and as a very outgoing person with everchanging rainbow hair, I did not fit in. I made a few really great friends, and met a really cute boy who has now been my boyfriend for over 2 years. At the start of this school year, which is my senior year, I made it maybe a month before I just about crashed out. I tried to let the school be a part time student and do homeschooling for the rest, but my parents said all or nothing. I was so burned out from the exhausting amount of school and work that I chose homeschooling, despite many people thinking I'd fail. Well, I'm a couple weeks from graduating, and now all the sudden my dad is extremely angry that I didn't do an extra activity each week for a scholarship, which I was never informed about. My dad is insistent that he told me when I started in September, but even my mom disagrees. The thing about the scholarship is that it requires each recipient to watch an hour long science thing each week, and as I am literally on the precipice of graduating, there is no possible way I could make up for it. Here's the thing. I know my parents have never been the best with money, so part of me would feel bad to put my foot down and say no. However, I make $17 an hour, and pay $200 for my car and $300 on rent, which my dad started. Addtionally, my dad wants me to start paying insurance and phone payments in June, and as it stands, there is no possible way I could afford to pay the extra AT LEAST $1190 for school (that's just what the scholarship would pay). What really pisses me off is the fact that my parents both spend unreasonable amounts of money on stupid crap, like how my mom buys endless amounts of makeup even though she doesn't wear it, and barely leaves the house (she gets disability). They are planning at looking at new houses soon, and have already been looking at several thousand dollar cruises, so it's not like they're without money. So, WIBTA if I put my foot down and said no to paying at least $1190 for school?
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