I'd like to take a moment to talk about some of the most egregious things my mom has done to me. There's going to be a few.

TW: Death threats, physical abuse.

2006-08: When I was young, my mom used spanking as a way of discipline and I have to say, it hurt a lot. I can't really say too much more.

July 1, 2018: In the middle of a heat wave, while I was stuck in formal clothes that were making me overheat in a building with bad air conditioning, my mom refused to let me leave the building, even after pointing out that she saw me getting pale. I got sick later that day.

October 11, 2018: I had made myself a mug of hot chocolate and finished a can of whipped cream from the fridge. When my mom noticed that it was empty and I had forgotten to tell her, the words that left her mouth were "I will strangle you."

December 25, 2018: During a game of Uno with some relatives, I gave her a draw 4 and her response was to slap me in the arm so hard that I stung for a few minutes. She refused to apologize until a week and a half later when she angrily apologized because I was still upset.

January 31, 2019: On one of the coldest nights that winter, I didn't feel comfortable going outside. I wanted to explain why but I went completely silent out of anxiety, which lead to her raging at me. I locked myself in my room while she was outside.

(cont.) She came back and got even angrier at me for locking my door, so I unlocked it out of fear and she took my phone, causing me to have a seizure. Instead of getting me help, she blamed it on me for not doing what she told me to.

July 16, 2019: I was sitting in bed with my pants pulled down when my mom came in and sat on my bed to explain what she wanted to do the next day. For some reason, she randomly reached for my butt and started grabbing it. This made me extremely uncomfortable.

(cont.) I told her to stop because I was uncomfortable and her response was "So?"

On a related note, she is extremely touchy with me and touches my body without my permission all the time.

May 29-June 9, 2020: We had just come back from a trip and didn't have many groceries (the last time she had gone shopping was early May). This led me to get extremely hungry and when I told her that, she got angry and blamed me for her not going grocery shopping.

(cont.) I barely ate anything for about two weeks and felt almost malnourished by the time she finally did go grocery shopping.

Just remembered two more things.

May 4, 2018: We were at a shoe store getting me some new sneakers when she joked with the lady at the counter that "kids are just slave labor." That lady looked very uncomfortable and I don't blame her.

June 1, 2018; May 24, 2019; June 15, 2020: These were the days that my mom called me stupid, weak, and worthless respectively. I can't really say much more about that.