I’m almost done with university and it’s been one of the most miserable experiences of my life. I’ve made this fact very clear to everyone in my life, especially my family. Nonetheless, they always bring it up, “what are your grades like?”, “what classes are you in?”, “are you passing?” 

Like, can you leave me alone? Yes, I’m passing! I’ve told you so many fucking times!!  Can you leave me alone? How many times do I have to mention that I don’t like talking about university? 

And it doesn’t help that when I mention how I don’t like talking about school, they just tell me that I’m being ‘too defensive’

I get it, I don’t talk about a lot of my problems with my family. But this is because they don’t know how to help me. It’s because their ‘help’ equates to telling me to ‘get over it’ and ‘suck it up’.