Another incident that came to my mind today - I was 17 and about to attend the school prom. My mum made my dress, and one day we went underwear shopping. The fitting rooms in one shop didn't have locks on the doors, so I asked my mum to 'stand guard' outside the door as I was extremely sensitive and dreaded someone barging in. Once I'd got changed, mum opened the door a little so she could see if the new bra would go with the dress. She loudly exclaimed, 'My God, your breasts really are so small!'

I was shocked and felt a little humiliated. I think I just huffed and puffed a bit and told her to go, but afterwards, I felt really lousy about it.. What kind of a mother says that! Idiot..

Also, on the day of the prom, I had my hair done at a hair salon and it didn't turn out the way I'd hoped. It made me look like an old lady while my friends were cool and contemporary. On the way home, I phoned my mum to tell her how disappointed I felt. She was on edge and wouldn't listen, just snapped at me that she probably wouldn't get the dress done by the night - yeah, it still wasn't finished.. Then I got stressed out about that as well.

When I got home, I couldn't help breaking into tears as I thought my hair looked so awful and I was dreading being laughed at once I got to the school.. I tried to save what could be saved by sticking more pins in my hair while crying in the bathroom. My mum had a fit, raging at me to pull myself together and stop messing up my make-up, and 'Oh, so now you're not going at all!?' F*.. What a great experience, cheers for that, 'MUM'..!