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From: David
To: eqi.org2
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:32:31 -0400
Subject: Teen, Just Want To See What You Think.

> Hello, my name is David, and I just recently discovered your website as I
> was just looking for things to.. Help me out.. Basically, I just want to
> hear your opinion on this. Yes, I am a teenager, and, am, obviously
> "troubled", or "different", idk. In short, my mom is threatening to
> permanently take my internet away, including weekends. My only and best
> friends are on the internet, and they're the only people that can make me
> feel even slightly like I belong, and they're the only people that can
> understand me. My mom says its because "I've been sitting on it too much",
> practically all day on school nights, from 3pm to 10pm, and from 8am-12am
> with copious amounts of breaks, and that she wants me to spend more time
> with the family. In truth, I don't even want to be around her, because
> simply being around her makes me angry and agitated, her looks on life are
> just embarrassing in my eyes. She's slightly racist, and makes fun of gay
> people, and if she ever catches me crying she'll call me emo, and, I might
> as well be, though I don't necessarily self-harm...She always pressures me
> to be right and its just so hard to take it anymore. I have no one to talk
> to about these things but my friends, and I think they might be the people
> that've been keeping me alive the past 3 years. I dont want to tell her
> that my friends mean so much to me because I know that she'll resort to
> "what, are your friends more important than family?", when my parents dont
> even talk to me about anything, and, Im honestly terrified of what else
> she'll say. If I cant speak to them anymore, I might go insane, or become
> depressed. Am I being stupid and deserve it, or should I try and do
> something. Please help.
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