u/Dry_Competition5906

When I was 13 I was taking a shower and then when I left to go to my room I was texting my best friend back because my phone was occupied with playing music in the shower earlier and I didn't notice she sent me a few messages until I got out. Then my mom came in to talk to me and I was texting my friend as she talked to me but also listened at the same time. And then my mom asked me who I was texting and before I could even respond she grabbed my phone, read the messages and then assumed the worst out of it and stormed off to her room and then started fussing in her room about me having an online friend who she assumed was someone older than me. and I felt panicked about it so I left my room after quickly getting dressed and tried to open the door and mid way she started laughing as I tried to open the door and then when she opened the door and unlocked it it comes to realization that my older siblings were in there the entire time and they were all looking at me like I was weird because of the way I panicked when I tried to open the door. But that situation did get solved in a way because I face timed my friend to prove that she was young like me. But I didn't like how she handled that because I'm guessing that's why I feel embarrassment deeply than anything these days. to this day, I always question if I was the weird one in this situation because I overthink about it so much

im 17F and I am a bit nervous to speak up about this but I've been wanting to talk about this for a while and I'm going to get on with it, when I was 12 years old my mom had homeschooled me when covid was around and stuff but then when covid like started to calm down or something and people were going back to school. I didn't go back to school and my mom told me it was because of covid or something. I naively believed that back then, and kind of shrugged It Off and just kept on doing the homeschool books she gave me that she would order online. I do remember this one time when I was 12 and I saw that my cousin was having fun with her friends on social media i suddenly felt sad that time because I wished my life was like that, hangouts with friends, and school experience as well. And then when I was 13 I got put in middle school but then unfortunately out of nowhere my mom decided to divorce my dad like months later and then she put me out of school and gave me homeschooling books again or something. And during that period my mom said we were moving but it took years to move to a house as she was selling the current house we were at. To be honest I really never learned anything from those books. Fast forward to years later I finally got to be in high school when I was 15 (or 16.. Quite hard to remember the timelines at this rate.) and then my mom pulled me out again and started to put me in home school and now it's 2026. and I do feel bad that I didn't get to experience prom and I kind of feel like i'm too late to experience prom now. I don't have much hope for that but I do know what I want to be. I want to be a translator when I get older. I started to notice this wasn't normal when I was 13 but I was honestly scared to speak up about it. Now I'm speaking up about it and I'm willing to know if there is anyone out there who understands