I just had a baby a few months ago. When I was pregnant I was fine dealing with my family just like I have for my whole life. But now that I have a baby I cannot imagine raising her around them. Specifically, my mom and my grandma. (Moms mom).

Basically ever since I was a kid I haven’t been enough for them. Anything I wanted to do with my life didn’t matter, it was always what they wanted. I loved art and music and movies and even when people told me I had potential and told my parents they should get me a camera or an instrument, didn’t matter. Oh but my younger brothers can get new baseball bats and gloves and shoes because their interests matter.

I told them I wanted to be a teacher, they said “no they don’t make a lot of money”. My family laughed at me when I was a kid and loved criminal minds and thought I wanted to be in the FBI.…