Im the youngest child in my family (I have one older sister whos in grad school),19 years old, and I'm a junior in college. Im so tired of living under my sisters shadow. she always does everything better than i do. She went to a great prestigious college, she's going to law school, she was valedictorian in high school, she was our high schools pageant winner...just to name a few. I remember one time specifically in high school one of my sisters AG teachers came up to me and asked "when are you going to get smart like your sister and get in the above grade-level classes?" People have always just liked her more than me in general. At family events people always tend to gravitate to her and I'm just stuck in the corner looking out of a window or something. My parents treat her way more independently than they do me... I've felt this way for the majority of my life and I'm just tired of it all. I want to be on my own out of her shadow. So I've decided that I just really want to cut myself off from my family, you know? I'm going back to school soon and I really don't think I'm gonna come back. I'm tired of being compared to my sister and at school nobody even knows my sister to have anything to compare me to. Im applying to jobs, i have my own apartment for when I go back to school, and I'm going to tell my parents that I'll start paying all of my bills(cell phone etc.)...I don't want anything to tie me down to them anymore and want to be free from them and the comparison i face as much as possible. Is cutting myself off the right way to handle this or am I doing things completely wrong?