u/Saltysquid1213

Hi! I’m about to be 16 and my parents got my first car. It’s a 2013 orange Subaru Crosstrek in really good condition. I love it, but I’m worried about what other people will think about the color. I’ve showed a few friends and they’ve said I am going to get made fun of for it, and I’m starting to second guess if it’s actually looks good or not. Please help!

EDIT: I understand that I am incredibly lucky and I’m so grateful for my family and what they do for me. I really just wanted to hear people’s opinions because of the negative feedback I’ve been getting from friends, that’s all.

I (15F) realized that my mom is a narcissist after a long conversation with my therapist back in October. This news has been incredibly disturbing yet also comforting as I know how to handle her better now. My mom and dad are divorced, and have been for a decade. Throughout my life, my mom has been extremely abusive, by weaponizing the car and making me intentionally feel unsafe or by screaming at me for hours. She also lied to me about my dad for my entire life, telling me things to get me to hate him and convinced me that he did not like spending time with me. Starting a few months ago, my therapist and dad opened a court case regarding custody and boundaries against her. We had tried to do joint therapy to establish boundaries and even got her to sign a contract, but she decided that she did not want to respect my bare minimum needs and threw the contract out instead and even tried to ban me from my therapist. I now have to talk to a court issued therapist on top of my regular therapist every week. I also had to talk to a Guardian ad litem, and I told her that I just wanted my boundaries to be respected. I have another meeting with her in about a week and think I might choose to stay away from my mom completely. I feel so hopeless with the situation and have been struggling a lot with my mental health because of it and I’m in desperate need of support from people who understand. Yesterday, my mom sent an hour long transcript from a personal call between her and her psychic. In the call, she described me as a gaslighting manipulative narcissist who lives for drama. She also called me erratic, and said that I am trying to date a boy my friend likes to hurt my friend, called me an asshole, and also said that I am on the path to teenage pregnancy. I am a 4.1 gpa student in mainly advanced or honors classes with the exception of orchestra. I have had one relationship and never had sex. I do like a boy that my friend is also interested in, but she became interested after I told her I was. These words have been extremely hurtful, especially since I thought we were doing better. We recently came back from a European trip over spring break that was great except for two minor arguments. I also rely on my mom for financial support and need her money for college, as my dad does not have as much. I don’t know what to do. Please help.

Hi! I have a younger brother with autism (3) and also a decent amount of money I would like to invest into forming some sort of organization to help autistic children within my community. I don’t know where to start though or what most needs to be addressed. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!! I have a few ideas, like providing different fidget/stim kits for schools that have small budgets, but other than that, I’m not really sure how I can help support.