...then followed that with “I guess you have to let your kids fall flat on their face sometimes so they’ll see”

Because I don’t want to spend my whole life in medical school and finally make enough money to at least make it LOOK like I’m happy in my late 40’s

She’s been trying to get me to be a medical practitioner of some sort for as long as I can remember and refuses to believe me when I say I don’t want to because it’s just not my thing !

I have attention problems (probably adhd) and mental that have been untreated for so long because I stopped going to therapy because I was so tired of her sitting in on my sessions and talking for me even though we hadn’t lived together for years prior and she wouldn’t let me take a gap year for college so I spent my first semester crying in class and throughout the hallways because i was depressed and I was embarrassed by how small my attention span is 