RANT
So, I was talking with my mom because I wanted to tell her the electives I got. They're my dream electives, an ecology class, drama and the special drama class where you do a musical! These were my dream electives since 6th grade, and all of them are special electives, meaning I had to send in an application and have it over to even apply (and for ecology I even needed a teacher recommendation too.) I wanted to tell her, since I was proud of it, but she inevitably made the conversation all about how I need all these high school credits and how I'm wasting my time on these electives and summer school courses I'll have to take, and I started crying... I just wanted her to be proud of me, but all she really cares about with me is my grades and if I'm "ahead." The way that she makes every conversation about school turn into this just frustrates me, especially since I'm already docked up for all advanced gifted courses and even a PreAP, and multiple high school credit courses, and still, she gets mad that I'm behind and need to pull out electives to get more high school credits... I just wanted her to be proud that I got into my dream classes, I didn't need to get yelled at and told about how I need to plan for my future when I'm already doing that enough with my summer courses and need a break. One of my electives is a high school credit course anyway! I just want her to be proud of me, but it seems like all she cares about is if I do good in school.
And just as a sidenote... I've told her twice that I was a boy, TWICE, and she still calls me by my deadname, still calls me "she," got mad when she saw my profile with my pronouns... I have to act like a totally different person around her already, and her doing this only makes it worse...