Hi everyone I'm going to make this quick...I hope :)
A little background here: I come from a narcissistic family just like many others. Before them I lived in a foster family for the first 10 months of my life. My adoptive parents essentially tried to kill me with psy-op type stuff when I was 18. This is slightly hyperbolic but it is true. I spent around 3 years on my own and was snatched up by my step-father and my former foster parents when they found out what happened. My foster parents have since been helping me out quite a bit and they're more parents to me than my adoptive parents, but, they never really were able to grasp the amount of pain that I was in so when I talked to them it always seemed like they just wanted me to shut up. So I've since learned not to talk about emotions or anything real like that with them. But they love me in their own way and I know that. And that's where this next part comes in.
I know it's late in the game but I recently applied at a 4 year private college. I've been taking classes at a community college and I wanted to step it up a notch by getting a degree in social work. I want to bring out my talents. I'm completely sick of my job as a server, which is what I've been doing since my parents tried to kill me. (it's so complex that it's hard to describe without hyperbole, sorry) But now with money getting so tight and trying to keep paying for all of my supplements, health food, and trying to finance the removal of my mercury fillings, I'm having 2nd thoughts about college. I wanted to go in the hopes that it would be a sort of forced oscillation in the STO direction. But now I'm seeing that it may be the opposite. I will be more reliant on my foster parents AND my parents (who, after seemingly changing their ways, have since expressed an interest in helping me pay for college) to pay my regular bills. I will be feeding an illusion and will become a parasite to them, or so it seems. We don't have anything in common. Our relationships are built on lies, and though I have put these relationships in a distance this will necessarily bring them closer.
Instead of having the effect of forced oscillation will this choice instead be damping my vibration? It's been a long time since I thought of such things, because before I thought they'd drive me crazy. I was too afraid of the consequences if I made the wrong choice. But I'm feeling braver now, and I know I will be held responsible for the choices I make. This one seems like a big one. Thanks for listening.
A little background here: I come from a narcissistic family just like many others. Before them I lived in a foster family for the first 10 months of my life. My adoptive parents essentially tried to kill me with psy-op type stuff when I was 18. This is slightly hyperbolic but it is true. I spent around 3 years on my own and was snatched up by my step-father and my former foster parents when they found out what happened. My foster parents have since been helping me out quite a bit and they're more parents to me than my adoptive parents, but, they never really were able to grasp the amount of pain that I was in so when I talked to them it always seemed like they just wanted me to shut up. So I've since learned not to talk about emotions or anything real like that with them. But they love me in their own way and I know that. And that's where this next part comes in.
I know it's late in the game but I recently applied at a 4 year private college. I've been taking classes at a community college and I wanted to step it up a notch by getting a degree in social work. I want to bring out my talents. I'm completely sick of my job as a server, which is what I've been doing since my parents tried to kill me. (it's so complex that it's hard to describe without hyperbole, sorry) But now with money getting so tight and trying to keep paying for all of my supplements, health food, and trying to finance the removal of my mercury fillings, I'm having 2nd thoughts about college. I wanted to go in the hopes that it would be a sort of forced oscillation in the STO direction. But now I'm seeing that it may be the opposite. I will be more reliant on my foster parents AND my parents (who, after seemingly changing their ways, have since expressed an interest in helping me pay for college) to pay my regular bills. I will be feeding an illusion and will become a parasite to them, or so it seems. We don't have anything in common. Our relationships are built on lies, and though I have put these relationships in a distance this will necessarily bring them closer.
Instead of having the effect of forced oscillation will this choice instead be damping my vibration? It's been a long time since I thought of such things, because before I thought they'd drive me crazy. I was too afraid of the consequences if I made the wrong choice. But I'm feeling braver now, and I know I will be held responsible for the choices I make. This one seems like a big one. Thanks for listening.
Understatement! But again, thank you!