I really dislike that my mom seems to think I'll never be happy in how she calls me. Like, she finally agreed to call me my chosen name (after I had a nervous crying face-scratching breakdown during a haphazard conversation about my gender), but she added near the end when I was calmer that "it feels like this will never be enough for you, like even me calling you *chosen name*, you'll be like 'can you call me they?"". And that "I wish you loved yourself".
Its not realistic to expect me to NOT want you to use the pronouns I laid out, even though they're different from birth! I am grateful at least for "no pronouns, just name" but trying to explain this made me break down again, because how do you explain "I want you to use the pronouns I want" without sounding self centered and not considering how awkward that'd be for the other side??
.....she's right. I won't truly be happy, and I hate that.
I wish she could see how that feels. Should I
just.... stop pronouning her and see if it
affects her?
She cares. I know she does. She grabbed my wrists to stop me from scratching myself. ...but she yelled in the process, which I hate. It just is insanely hard to feel like she cares. I feel insane, I feel stupid and wrong and toxic and just plain crazy! Is it my ADHD?? I felt like I was going insane, like I was turning stupid or regressing to a younger mind. Not in like an age regression way, just in a "I know I'm acting immature right now, bawling my eyes on in the fetal position on the ground. I just wish I had the resources and comfort and an explanation to my mom why I look crazy right now".