Graduated college and my parents are saying I’ve made nothing of myself
To finish my degree it took a lot, because I began to struggle understanding why it is so hard for me to do stuff. Since I was a high schooler I’ve struggled like that. I had a moment I felt my heart racing and like everything just stopped and since then I’ve had those "episodes” my parents say get over yourself. You don’t know how silly but real it feels. It goes beyond that but it got worse and worse.
When I graduated I had a job, but they cut my hours down and my mom hated that job because it was not related to sociology, my degree. But I wanted a job with flexible hours for college. She asked me several times as a student to interview at places. The dentist, the bank. I even briefly worked at some of these places. But my mom just tells everyone stuff. She works in banking and admin, and she has a very people facing role even before she got promoted. So everyone was offering her? To get me an interview or she was telling people.
Politely I asked my mom if I can find my way. I’m applying to teaching roles, I wanna at least understand teaching. My dad is currently furious at me and said get a grip on yourself and listen to mom. I feel like a kid. I told my mom the reason a lot of my post jobs are flexible or had "non traditional hours” is because I just cannot handle school and a job. But she was always pushing for it.
In the summer she threatened to kick me out but my parents live in my grandparents house so my grandad got involved and told my mom finding a job takes a while. He knows I am applying. I’ve interviewed at places. But my mom gave me the business card of a lady and it’s kinda like working with youth, it’s a very interesting job but I asked my dad can I please first go to a doctor because I shake when I wake up out of fear? And he mocked me. My mom said stop the bs just go to work. My mom later wanted me to go sign up to be a police officer (the academy) and I refused which was the first major fight. I never wanted to do sociology either my parents just said I’m "not good” at anything else. Should I interview where my mom said?
Posted Jan 8, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC