Small-Minded Family.
I’ve been butting heads with my grandparents. Specifically my paternal grandma, and my maternal grandpa for somewhat similar reasons.
They want me to learn how to drive so I can have an easier time finding work, which I fully agree with! I’d love to drive and have something that makes me feel like I’m actually an adult for a change. But the thing is, even while medicated, I’m still having small seizures and auras on a pretty regular basis. So obviously I can’t just jump behind the wheel.
My grandpa has lightened up on me about it after a very bad seizure that lasted around 8 minutes in late 2024, he’s more so just wanted me to do it so I can be somewhat happier for a change, which I do appreciate. Doesn’t make it less annoying or stressful sometimes lmao.
My grandma on the other hand. She sees it as “Flimsy excuses for not wanting to work.” To the extent of her trying to shame me in front of my family over it. She’ll bring up how successful my step sister is, and how my cousins are doing good too. She always saves me for last, knowing that I’ll say the same thing. It’s really starting to get to me, and it’s starting to make my cousins VERY mad as well. Step sister clearly just loves the attention after my dad got her a nice job at an insurance firm that he did the phone systems for. Would’ve been nice having a desk job, dad.
My mom says I shouldn’t care what she says because she isn’t present in my life like my grandpa is, which is true. I’m too nervous to speak to my dad about it because that’s his mother, I’m not about to start talking shit haha. I shouldn’t care, my mom is right, but it’s so much easier said than done, and with each time she does it, I get closer and closer to cutting contact.
That, my current medicine (Lacosamide) is making me super irritable and she knows that. I hope she isn’t trying to get me to make a scene. Bleh.