Am I prideful or are my parents toxic?
I am 17 years old and I feel as if the more older I get the more me and my parents start to clash. I graduated high school at the age 15 years old last year and my parents forced me to get a bachelors degree in something I never wanted to get it in and they were on my ass about me not taking it seriously and I’ve told them multiple times that I don’t care about it and they say that I will thank them about in the future when i’m on the track to running a successful agency at 17.
I applied for my dream college and for accepted into it, I plan on getting a bachelors degree then my major of choice but my mom specifically wants ME to work a job and get my masters degree with the major they forces upon me and im fully against it. About 2 days ago me and my mom got into it once again and she told me straight to my face that she won’t be signing anything for my studies if I didn’t do what she wanted in my eyes my parents are both failures they came from Africa and haven’t done jack shit to move the needle and become successful and when I told them that I only take advice from people who are already successful and are in shoes that i’d gladly be in I get gaslight and get called disrespectful.
PART TWO
My mom is always calling me disrespectful, and things along those lines for having a voice for myself and speaking up to the both of my parents. I am genuinely tired of their shit, me getting annoyed easily is already bad enough but my mom constantly being a bird brain and aggravating me/ using fear and threatening me makes it bad enough and I don’t know what I should do I can’t wait any longer and i’m on the verge of cursing my parents out and letting them know how I truly feel. I have been dealing with their behavior for years and as time goes on i’m reaching an exploding point, when I get things figured out I plan on leaving and never talking to my parents again and pronouncing them dead (To me) and going about my life and only talking to my grandmother who has been more of a mother than my mother ever has been to me.
Not to sound prideful but I genuinely think I am smarter and better than my parents in every way and aspect and they think that just because they are my parents and older than me they’re automatically right and know it all. I’m tired of the way they treat me and the way my mom constantly threatens me and tries to use that African Christian Fear talk against me, My parents are also the main reason why I doubt God and christianity.