I think some of it is normal. It's very hard being the age you are at now (very hard being any age :-) because you don't have complete freedom and control, you don't have the ways and means to try things out for yourself and effect changes in your life and not as much stimulation (jobs, new people, going new places, etc.) as would be good. Pretty much stuck at home in a rut that feeds on itself. Meanwhile, all your hormones and stuff are moving in all directions changing you too.
Parents are a tough one. Later you might wish you'd done this time differently in relation to them, will wish you'd been a bit closer or tried a bit harder to talk to them, etc. They are just trying to be good parents, they're just older people like yourself, in many ways you are "like" them (as you'll discover when it's probably too late/you're older) and will understand where they are coming from later. You know how when a kid is really young and gets told "you'll understand when you're older"? it keeps being that way until you're around 50 (at least, was for me) when you start really understanding even what that phrase means!
One thing that might comfort you is to remember how you felt when you were little and then looking back at that time. You wonder at the change (have you gone back and seen an elementary school classroom lately?) but it gets even more pronounced when you're 25 or 35 or 45, etc. There is a future up ahead and you will be "okay".
You might want to remember that everything you do now counts. It may seem worthless or of no importance but habits are being formed and get hard to unform. You won't have the same situation later and the lies now will be detrimental to you later and make you work harder and maybe close some doors, etc. Practice telling the truth now and trying to be open now (to heck with their reaction, just smile and shrug if what you're doing meets with your own approval) so it isn't so difficult later. Look at us older people and the troubles we have now (and that your parents have) and wonder about them. You really have a nice situation, have computers/the Internet to see other people of different ages, etc. Become an observer.
I had a crush on my female teachers and camp counselors, etc. It's more transference because of our parents I think; we aren't taking advantage of them (or they aren't able to connect very well with us) and we need that feeling/support/experience from somewhere so we look for it wherever we can find it. Go talk to your mom about her experiences growing up? I wish I'd done more of that and had done my homework in the living room or wherever she was while she was working there on her projects, just been "friendlier".
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