Grandma,
You really, really don't own me.
Yeah, I could care less if you thought so lowly of me because I don't need your approval and there is no way I am ever becoming what you expect of me. Sorry if that hurts your feelings but it's true. I'm going to be my own person and just because you are disappointed in the way I turned out doesn't mean I am going to change. My job is not to please you.
Also stop holding me at such a low standard just because of my mom. She's YOUR daughter. If you are so concerned about her YOU fix it. Stop saying I should just 'be a kid' and then expect me to calm her down when she's yelling at you over the phone because you're too emotionally unstable to, oh I don't know, maybe hang up? If she upsets you that much don't talk to her. I'll give her my number to talk to me if I have to - my only issue with that is minutes. You don't have to talk to her about me either. She no longer has custody, my dad does, so you can talk to him.
Also. You know I kinda wanted to FORGET what happened back in Colorado. At least Sue only brought it up when I wanted to talk about it. But every single day you tell me how much you don't want me to turn out like my mom. What evidence do you even have to support that I would? My swearing? That came from school just FYI, and it's not a bad thing. To you, maybe, but it really isn't to me or the good majority of my generation it seems. You can use big words just as easily as you can swear words.
But mainly to the subject of this. You. Don't. Own. Me. I've never looked up to you for support because every time I do you go and shoot me down. You won't even let me at Kenny for bashing grandpa on facebook. They very least you could let me do is tell him he is not displaying the traits of the mayor position he is running for. Maybe that'd get him thinking, ah? But. No. You don't think I'm 'smart enough' to do that. I'll have you know that I've learned a lot more my half year out of public school than I have in all my years IN school. About politics and so many other things they don't even touch on in school. I once got detention for bringing up feminism in one of my classes. DETENTION.
Also, no, grades don't determine how smart you are. They determine how well you work under, oh I don't know, the pressure schools put on us maybe.
And you wonder why I want to go home right now.
You really, really don't own me.
Yeah, I could care less if you thought so lowly of me because I don't need your approval and there is no way I am ever becoming what you expect of me. Sorry if that hurts your feelings but it's true. I'm going to be my own person and just because you are disappointed in the way I turned out doesn't mean I am going to change. My job is not to please you.
Also stop holding me at such a low standard just because of my mom. She's YOUR daughter. If you are so concerned about her YOU fix it. Stop saying I should just 'be a kid' and then expect me to calm her down when she's yelling at you over the phone because you're too emotionally unstable to, oh I don't know, maybe hang up? If she upsets you that much don't talk to her. I'll give her my number to talk to me if I have to - my only issue with that is minutes. You don't have to talk to her about me either. She no longer has custody, my dad does, so you can talk to him.
Also. You know I kinda wanted to FORGET what happened back in Colorado. At least Sue only brought it up when I wanted to talk about it. But every single day you tell me how much you don't want me to turn out like my mom. What evidence do you even have to support that I would? My swearing? That came from school just FYI, and it's not a bad thing. To you, maybe, but it really isn't to me or the good majority of my generation it seems. You can use big words just as easily as you can swear words.
But mainly to the subject of this. You. Don't. Own. Me. I've never looked up to you for support because every time I do you go and shoot me down. You won't even let me at Kenny for bashing grandpa on facebook. They very least you could let me do is tell him he is not displaying the traits of the mayor position he is running for. Maybe that'd get him thinking, ah? But. No. You don't think I'm 'smart enough' to do that. I'll have you know that I've learned a lot more my half year out of public school than I have in all my years IN school. About politics and so many other things they don't even touch on in school. I once got detention for bringing up feminism in one of my classes. DETENTION.
Also, no, grades don't determine how smart you are. They determine how well you work under, oh I don't know, the pressure schools put on us maybe.
And you wonder why I want to go home right now.
