The Problem With My Parents

     From last Friday to last Sunday, I was on another camping trip, this time in Pennsylvania, with my family. Although it was short, I didn't enjoy it that much, unlike the previous camping trip. I would tell them that, but if I did, they'll probably just lecture me on how wrong I am.

    In the start of the camping trip, I waited a while until I started helping with setting up the tent since I was feeling a bit tired. But then once I did start my parents were nonstop being rude to me. They referred to me in specific ways, they used stereotypes about me, and shamed me for not being "good enough." You see, if you remembered from the last blog post I made about camping, you'll know that I spend a lot of time upstairs in an office room to use the computer and other devices. But I'm not always on devices when I'm upstairs at home. My parents highly doubt that, and made a whole stereotype about me using that, and mocked me by saying that I could go use my phone in a sarcastic way. Sometimes when I was helping set up the tent, it took me a while to understand some things, but instead of helping me and taking it lightly, my parents were mad at me for not being good enough, humiliating me for being "dumb."

    This is the problem with my parents.

    In addition to that, I don't feel that they completely care. They don't always take everything seriously when I want to talk about something serious, and they don't completely listen and try to understand me and how I feel. They just listen to a bit of what I say, then as I said earlier, they'll lecture me on something else that won't help or lecture me on how "wrong" I am. Aside from that, they'll make me do things that are unnecessary and won't help me with anything. They only do it because they'll just believe anything that people their age and people on Facebook say about people like me or people my age is true.

    Going back to the part when I said that they think I'm always on devices when I'm upstairs and always on them in general, that is kind of true for the most part, but they say that I should be appreciating the outdoors, which I do. I would love to appreciate the world outside our house more, but they should realize that the reason I don't do that is because they don't let me. During my free time at home, the only outdoors place I could go to is my backyard. It's nice, but I've seen it a million times. I want to do what I see my classmates and kids on shows and movies do. I want to be able to go out the front door and simply sit there, maybe go to a nearby place, just anything to be able to explore the area around me aside from my home without my parents around. But I'm stuck here with no privacy, no alone time for me to work on myself and have something peaceful.

    That's all I have to say. Once I become more of an artist, I'm not gonna have my family involved with it.

-Anthony "Salteh" S. • • •