u/TheGirlWhoShreds

Hi guys, as an online student I thought I'd pop on here to ask some questions since I don't have any friends doing Curtin with me (I graduated hs last year and my bestie and I did uni-ready together)!

If anyone has done a Bachelor of Japanese, or any degree related to language, do let me know:

- Are there availabilities for translator/interpretor pathways (as in units in psychology, literature, etc.)
Just asking this one due to the fact that in the degree (on OUA... OUA is a shit of a thing but I didn't wanna do the shit course it wanted me to do through Curtin) it has different sorts of electives, for example there's 2 Korean units, 2 Chinese units (don't ask if it's Mandarin or Cantonese since it doesn't state in the thing but I imagine probably Mandarin), there's even geography and digital media.
I rang up Curtin Careers and the lady basically just said "Yeah do some research" which didn't help because I've obviously been doing that ;-;

- Are there exams?
For this SP I've done "Introduction to Cultural Studies" (ENG100) and "Culture to Cultures" (CUR-COM155:) (not sure if those codes are correct since I legit just googled them 'cause I can't be bothered logging into Curtin to have a look lol), the semester period isn't done until 30 AUG but I've submitted everything so I'm pretty much done for now.

- What's the worst part of studying a language degree?
This one is purely just for fun plus if someone wants to rant.

TW: Mentions of S/H (self h...), parental issues, passed loved ones.

So to start it off, I'm a carer for my mother, I get paid a pension amount which is used to look after my mother.
My mother is disabled yes, but she has things that she can do. She can shower by herself, get dressed, eat, etc, all by herself. But she forced me into being a carer since she won't let me get a normal job as I have social-anxiety and we live in the middle of no-where on a farm.
Before anyone states, "Social anxiety is not an excuse, you need to grow up." I'm aware, I want to get a "real-job" but she just won't let me. I need to get out of my comfort zone and talk with people so that I can gain my own life...

Anyways, to start it off, my mother is the type of mother to scream in your face and claim she never wanted you and then when you're left wearing a mask to hide how bad you want to cry she says, "make me a cup." as in a cup of coffee or tea.
She never once apologizes even though she claims to...

I'm so stupid with finances since my mother is moronic with that stuff, my mother always relied on a man to do stuff for her, whether it's finances, heavy lifting, etc.
I'm not terribly strong but I'm stronger than her so she makes her lift just about everything; one time I pulled a muscle in my back which hurt so bad that I couldn't get out of bed for at least half-an-hour the next day. Her response? "Toughen up princess." but if she has a tiny cut on her finger, a head-ache, a sore-stomach, a fever, whatever, she always says this whole, "Maybe I should just die, I'm too old to be a lawyer." (She's studying to become a lawyer).

I can't be the only one who thinks it's hilarious that a nut like her wants to be a lawyer...

Anyways... back to the whole thing where she relies on me to do heavy stuff (you might be thinking: well, aren't you her carer?" yes, but again, she literally forced me to, so I could gain money so she could take $669 (half) of it for shopping stuff), it makes me feel like I'm her husband rather than her daughter (ew, I'd never want that before anyone calls me a weirdo) due to how she literally never says, "I love you" or "Thank you" or anything when I do something, in fact... when she's angry she says, "I have a useless CARER" like wow, not even daughter? Can I be known as your daughter at least? She did that to my stepdad before he died as well, he was sick with kidney disease, they were shutting down so he needed dialysis and he was so ill that he would end up... not making it to the loo when he needed to do a 2... TMI but it's important for this story. Instead of my mother being like, "Oh honey... don't worry I got you." or something (which I know looking after a sick partner is stressful) she goes, "You fucking dirty bastard! You're disgusting! I'm putting you in a nursing home, you don't even deserve to live at this rate." I'm not even making this shit up man...

Who says that to ANYONE? Sick or not, you should never say that... Sure there's getting angry, then there's crossing the line.

My stepdad when I first met him when I was 9 years old was my hero, he was the sweetest man and he would help me with school projects, making those stupid kit things that kids love and he would even come comfort me when I used to S/H myself, during the last few months of his life he changed, he got grumpier due to my mother screaming at him and how sick he was, he was in so much pain, slipped disk along with having to stab himself with giant needles to dialysis and all my mum would do was yell at him.

I have my dad, he's okay, but he rarely checks his phone, he moved out last year after my stepdad passed (he came to live with us when I was S/H myself) and then he rarely checks his phone to see my texts, it's like I'm non-existent... he left this shit-hole just to leave me in this shit hole... sort of like my siblings when they all left when I was much younger (since I'm nineteen, my older siblings are way older then me, the youngest after me being 6 years older).

I dunno... I got $5.2K in savings, I want a minimum of $20K before I dip and go live my dreams as a translator/interpreter. I also study a Bachelor of Japanese right now and my mum makes me type out her law stuff, she'll write it down on paper and I'm forced to type it out all because she can't be bothered to do it herself. It's so stressful but... cheer for me since I did submit all 3 assignments early and I just have to wait until the 24/8 until I can view my Japanese and Korean electives.

...Anyway, thanks for listening to my TedTalk.

To begin, my birthday is on the 20th, I turn 19.

For a while, I've been looking forward to my birthday, I rarely get excited about it anymore because I have my own money (I'm a carer for my mother even though she's just using that so that she can have extra money) so I can buy stuff whenever I want.

But in short, my mother is saying she has an inner ear infection, do I know if she's being genuine? No. Do I care? Not really, but a little bit.

She always lies about stuff so she can have sympathy, but my mother? As soon as it's my birthday or something I want to do, she has to ruin it all.

I won't share excessive detail, but my mother is a grade a narcissist. I could tell her about my studies (I hope to become an interpreter one day) and she will immediately butt in and go "Oh my god, that's so much like my teacher, you know my teacher is so monotone and he talks like a robot, ugh... anyway, what do you think about me doing 3 subjects next semester?" (we both study online but she is in a different university) which is so fucking annoying.

Why can't anything be about ME?

Sure, I don't want to do anything crazy for my birthday like going into the city and spending a bunch of MY money, nor do I want to really do much- but it's so annoying...

In short, she's made a doctor's appointment because "My ear is killing me :("

Girl, come on now...

You might be thinking, "Oh, it's a medical reason, I understand." There's a date available tomorrow... we can go tomorrow... when it's not my birthday? But OHHHHHH NOOOOOO we have to go on my birthday.

This shit pisses me off man, why can't I just have one good birthday?

My last good birthday was when I was ten years old, I got to stay over at my dad's place and he got me cake and watched disney movies with me...

I'm so sick and tired of this shit man... Why can't I just have one date to myself?

To top it off, I have several alarms, our routine starts with her letting the dogs out of her room, than I let the other ones out of the main door (four dogs in total, all small dogs, we let them out for a toilet break and then they come back in), the earliest alarm I have is 5am in case she has a nightmare, furthermore, the latest I get to sleep is about 7.30am.

I want to sleep until midday or there abouts for my birthday, it's just 1 day out of the entire calender but I can't even have that.

For every year I make one wish for my birthday.

"To get more sleep."

I'm functioning on about 4 hours maximum most nights because I have to stay up late in order to tuck my mother into bed, and than I have to save her documents (mind you it's so fucking easy and I teach her everything) and what do I get in return? She fucking farts and than laughs and says "Enjoy" thinking it's fucking funny.

Just let me have 1 day to myself...

This birthday is gonna suck ass, I'm gonna wait in a doctors office for hours (the appt. is 11.15am) and then we're gonna go and get a fucking burger because that's the most she will spend on me (yes I can buy it myself but like bruh, I bought her a necklace that was like $450 AUD for her birthday last year and she glanced up from her phone and than she went "ah, nice." and has YET to touch the fucking thing).

...Fuck birthdays man.

So for context, I'm 19 soon, and last November my mother put me on carers pension/allowance since my mother is disabled (left hemiplegia), I get paid fortnightly $1338 (I think my math is correct- I'll explain why I have to do math in a second.) And I have to pay my mother $669 each pay day or else she will kick me out, $669 is my half.

I put $501 in savings each pay day, but she gets angry at me if I don't spoil her with stuff from Amazon, online bookstores, or even a jewelry store... my mother has expensive tastes... my stepfather (who she abused) passed away last year to kidney disease (I think it's her fault but anyway) and ever since I got that first pay check in November I've been the one to give her half.

I know it's fair, in my eyes it's fair to give her money since i am living on her property. By the way, I'm Australian and we live on a farm, she owns the house, it's not a rental.

But I can't help but feel like I'm getting fucked over here? I apologise if I am, but it's just so crazy that we have enough to get groceries plus spoil ourselves if needed and she decides that im not spoiling her enough? One time I was broke, with like $10 to my name and she was angry I didn't shout us lunch when I warned her a week in advance that I didn't have money...

I am pretty stupid with money but I have been documenting my spendings lately and I have been setting up a savings plan, I currently have about $2.8K in savings...

I just want you guys' opinions on this, am I being stupid or does this sound unfair?

Keep in mind, she would nag my stepdad for him to buy her stuff (he used to do mining but at the end when he was really ill he was on carer's to look after her, who, by the way, can do everything) and he ended up using all his money to the point he would hide bills so she wouldn't notice, when he died we had thousands in debt, I just don't want to be like how my poor stepdad was... it honestly feels like I'm another man and not her daughter...

All in all, I just want to know if I should save as much as possible so I can get the fuck out once I've done my bachelors degree, or if I should be a bit more splurgy...?

Okay I realize the title is probably very confusing...

I was watching YouTube shorts a couple days ago and came across a clip where a man (Kinda looks like a lumber jack, brown beard and brown hair) finds a wooden box with a baby that should be dead but is alive (I don't mean should be in a bad way, it's just shocking it'd alive).

He ends up raising the baby and the baby learns to wield a sword or something? I'm not 100% sure...

The boy he raised ends up saying something along the lines of, "I know what they call you," and the brown haired guy was confused so the boy said, "Mama." And the bearded guy starts to laugh.

Please help me find this anime it's been on my mind eber since and I can't find it. 😪

(P.S. I have no idea if the kid is male or female, but I'm like 90% sure the kid is male.)