Vent below because I am so done
My mother won't let me go to what is essentially a free trade-school I gotta live on-campus for and I've had this argument with her for the past ~2 years, multiple times (this started when I was 17, I'm 19 now.) This last time, she tried acting like she didn't want me to go because she was "worried I'd be bullied", and then she got mad when I sounded like I was gonna laugh over the phone about it. Then, she dropped the act and told me straight-up this time (tldr): "I know you want to go and do things with your life, BUT!!!!!!!!!! you guys (me and my siblings) are all I got."
You know how fucking embarassing it is to tell an admissions counselor "hey so my mother won't let me get an education and my sister won't help me either so I'm sorry for wasting ya'll's time for the third time now"? Does anybody know how wrong that feels to have to say you have no say?
She's already talked to (pressured) my sister about taking care of her when she's older and living with her, but hasn't done shit to help us learn how to drive, and it is just... Now my mother won't talk to me about anything that isn't an immediate need. She ignores me trying to talk about education, she leaves me on read if I text her about it, she keeps saying she loves me but that's all it is, just hot fucking air. I don't trust "I love you's" anymore. I don't feel safe here subconsciously, and I'm trapped here.
My therapist won't agree I'm trapped and part of me still craves external validation and is afraid of being denied it. I need her to tell me I am not dramatic and I am not crazy. I imagine if I were to run, nobody would take me seriously and everybody would think I ran from nothing. Oh well