All my life problems are because of my Parents

TW: Anxiety / Depression

I 20(F) have struggled my whole life in anything with school, work, and social life.
I do heavily blame my Mom and Dad (43 and 46) for how I turned out.

For context, I have Bipolar 2 and Autism, late diagnosed, and just recently got the right treatment (2 years ago) and my life back together; And oh boy has it not been easy.
Since I was a year old I have been moving every 2-3 years from country to country.
It didn't help that I was undiagnosed, bullied, and forced to learn new languages and cultures at a young age, all because my dad kept choosing his job.

By the end we moved to the USA where we have lived the most, and the school system here sucks. I went from having the same people in my class to now having to adapt and change to the constant cliques in the classroom Im chosen to go to.

It was so bad I admitted to my mother I have severe depression and even attempted my own life at the age of 10 almost 11.
My Mom attempted natural medicine at first, I had to take 10+ vitamin and supplement pills that a supposed 'therapist' I spoke to recommended.
It got worse from there, I even brought up getting diagnosed for autism to my mom and she yelled at me saying I don't have those problems.

Fast forward Junior year, I'm almost failing all my classes. I baker-acted myself and after that did they finally take me seriously. I finally got my diagnoses and started getting better, even my own Parent's have realized how much they ignored my signs.

We sat down to watch some home videos not too long ago and my Dad looked a bit sad at the videos of me at 9 still sucking my finger, and videos of me at 5 closing the bassinet roof over me to keep some distance from the outside world that overwhelmed me.

Now that I am 20, I am doing college online, I find that in person is horrible as I go to a community college, not because I failed high school because I was a bad student, but because I was not mentally well enough to put the effort into my grades.

I have an IQ of 148! I am a great student and thriving in the field I am studying through third party programs, but socially I am suffering. I can't get a job or friends, I have never been to a house party or club, never underage drank with friends or even tried any kind of substances. I stopped watching shows about college because I genuinely feel so left out, as much as I know they dramatize things.

Just recently did my mom start berating me for not having a job, and how I keep going to the mall to window shop. Thing is, she knows I got fired from my last job due to my lack of social skills as I did not know my boss was firing me since he was so vague about it. I asked her what she wanted from me, she told me to think about school first work second, which I did, Im thriving in school.

But now that my little sister got a job she want's me to get one. I'm genuinely so mad. My eldest sister goes to a top school and got to move out at 18, while I am 20, stuck at home, all because I had a mom and dad that couldn't read the loud blaring signs about me. I am hoping to go the extra mile. I am studying Japanese so by third year i can transfer away from the USA to Japan and maybe study there with a scholarship. I can't keep living here, I know they love me but my life has been so behind I can't stand it. Its embarrassing for me to see people from high school coming for vacation back home and asking me where I am studying just for me to say "Community College Online".

I have been crippled at such a young age I didnt get any head start like the others, I love my parents, but I feel that resentment I can't shake.

Posted Apr 24, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC

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