After No One Showed Up to My Graduation My Mom Asked for $2,100 and I Gave Her a Response She Didn’t Expect

to use a mental health framework as a weapon, tried to have me classified as the problem rather than as a person exercising a right. That crossed a line I had not known existed until she crossed it. Whatever restraint I had been holding onto dissolved.

I was a data analyst by training. My professional value was in finding patterns in chaos, extracting continue reading …