I am a junior in high school and an only child. My mom acts like as if EVERYTHING in my life is her responsibility and if she doesn't intervene, everything I try to accomplish will burn to the ground and that I will be a failure without her. I repeat, I am a junior in high school. My mom still sits next to me when I do my homework. I can't stay after school unless it's for an extra curricular because then I would be "unproductive" or "having a boyfriend" (which I don't). She thinks that I am lazy and unmotivated and that if she didn't organize things for me every frikkin second of the day, I would be hopeless. She practically does everything for me. If she's mad that I got one math problem wrong or whatever, she'll blow it up and say I should give up on trying to go to college. She looks after my studying even if she knows nothing about the subject, and if I get a good score on the test, she says that she was the one who "suffered to get the score". The list of examples could go on. She thinks I'm incapable but it's only because she hasn't even let me do anything on my own!

I understand that she wants what's best for me, but I feel like a prisoner. I don't have space to move. I don't have space to breathe.

Thanks for reading.

-AJ