Not socially, if that's what you're getting at. Actually, my mom remained pretty uninvolved in my social life; didn't want to be one of those pushy parents trying to force their kid to be popular. All that social rejecting was 100% me.

In some ways, it was kind of helpful - I bounced around schools a lot growing up, including 4 high schools in 4 years, and making the switch was easy since I never had anyone to say goodbye to. Nor did being the new kid ever bother me. The switches were all for educational reasons anyway - my mom didn't like the school's academics or thought they weren't giving me what I needed, so I got shunted off to another school that was "better". We never moved homes though, always lived in the same place. Switches never bothered me, and most of the time I didn't seem to care one way or the other. Whatever school I was in, I was fine, I guess.

Actually, my mom insists I have no social problems. That I'm just introverted and I've never been around "people like myself" enough. Also, she considers the fact that I have no enemies, that people like me (for some reason. I've had so many encounters of people saying "hi" to me and I just think, "Who are you?"), and that I can conduct very basic conversations to be a sign that there's nothing wrong with me socially. Actually, she thinks I'm better socialized than most kids because of all that school switching - "How well socialized can you be when you spend 12 years around the same group of people?"

Also, the whole therapist thing is partially my fault. I fail at bringing up issues of import, I'm more likely to go with whatever the therapist wants to talk about. I never even know what to say during a first appointment - do I just dive right in to whatever's on my mind? Is there some kind of get-to-know-you protocol? Heck if I know. But yeah, we could have 3 or 4 appointments and I'll barely get to talk about what really troubles me. I'm pretty passive, in case you can't tell.

There's a difference in goals too. My mother wanted a therapist who's going to give me weekly assignments and yell at me, maybe even "fire" me if I fail to complete them. She wants/wanted (she's been letting up lately) someone to work with me on how I suck at time management and following schedules, how I have no direction and focus in life, how I'm near-incapable of sitting down and working. I want to work on things like my worsening depression, my obsessive tendencies, my perceived social issues, my total lack of any self-esteem.

To be fair, yeah, I've long perceived my mother as overbearing and somewhat controlling. She insists either no, she wasn't at all; or if she was, she had to be.

Sorry for the self-divulging ramble.