I have sometimes intense fights with my family over my ethics. I never push my ethics on them, and in fact they bring it up and call me weird, crazy, tell me they couldn't live without meat, things like that and I just say "fine thats what you think" and they keep pushing it. They have always made fun of me because I'm pretty clumsy and they call me a nerd and things like that. They make fun of my dog, who I take everywhere with me, calling her dumb, stupid, fat, and my uncle says she's a rat and needs to be shot. I tell them to back off and leave me alone, but it starts a new fight. I try to not let it get to me, but it does after a while and ends with me screaming at them or sitting in a room alone until I can leave. I'm a teenage girl with the usual insecurities and things like that, so it makes it so much worse. I don't have the choice to not go to family functions unless I fake sick, which I have on occasion. How can I tell them to back off without starting another fight?
2007-08-14
04:29:23
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