u/LadderOwn300

my mom thinks that theres only college to life

im a 16 yo girl in high school and I've always performed well academically, but recently i brought up a dance team's tryout to my asian mom and told her that I wanted to try out. she disapproved the first time and she completely shut me down, telling me that stuff like dance teams wouldn't help me at all in life and that it would make me deviate from my path of getting a 1600 SAT score and getting into top colleges. I take SAT tutoring classes 3 nights a week, so she was also concerned that I wouldn't have time for it anymore if I made the team. it really discouraged me, but i decided to try again and tell her I understood her concerns so I talked to her again about it today , the day before tryouts, and she blew up and shut me down again telling me that I should bring her a 1600 SAT score to her first before I even talk to her about this ever again. Im extremely upset and angry because she thinks I can't balance my school life with extracurriculars when I already do that with my several clubs that I'm in. my back is at a wall and i feel like I'm missing out on so much because she constantly does this. I don't know what to do.

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u/LadderOwn300 — 3 hours ago