by KitKat » Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:07 pm
I am really angry with my mother. Usually I don't get this angry with her, but she really teed me off. I keep in contact with my mom through Facebook. She travels around the U.S. alot and it's cheaper than a phone plan. So a mutual fan of ours is a professor and had two different incidents happen with her students that she asked advice for. She didn't ask directly from me, but just generally. So I gave some advice. There are two things to keep in mind with this. I am a new teacher with just a year under my belt. This mutual friend is a Doctor specializing in researching autism. So while I'm not an expert in teaching I felt that is you ask for advice you tend to get it from different places. Well, my mother didn't like my answers. She said that I was talking to this friend like we were equals and that I was not this womans equal, just because she has a Phd. and I don't. This royally pissed me off. I may not be an expert in autism or research, but neither question was about that. I didn't try to sound arrogant, I was going for concise. While I can see where my mother is coming from, I just don't agree.
Part 2: And of course my mother calls me today acting as if nothing ever happened. She has the philosophy that if a person is angry then it's something within them and not something that anyone did outside of themselves. Sometimes I really hate having a Buddhist Nun for a mother. I'm not kidding on that last part. She is a buddhist nun.