When you cry at church and your mother snaps at you, pinches you, or punches you, because she’s tired of you humiliating yourself in font of her friends.
When you put forth an honest effort on a project and your mother won’t acknowledge it’s validity as ‘work’ because you’re doing all of it on a computer, with headphones, by yourself.
When you feel absolutely miserable and no-one stops to give a shit unless they want to say “buck up.”

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