So I am 21 this year, and I have been living in my own place every time I go to school for the 8 or so months of the year. However the remaining 4 months I usually live back home with the parents. It was sort of the deal I set with them back when I was still in high school.
Every year that I've had to go back home for the summer, I've realized that I'm usually reduced to the status of a 13 year old child. I understand why though: I am the youngest girl in the entire family; this includes my grandparents, aunts and uncles, and of course parents combined. This means, when I come back to my room that I've lived in for my entire young life, I am still treated like one. I can't stay out too late (9-10pm is taboo for me apparently), walk the very suburby and familiar neighbourhood home passed when the sun sets, am forbidden to talk to strangers (even for help or directions), or eat anything for fear I will get fat (yeah, not because I'm afraid, but because SHE'S afraid). "Don't eat that, don't touch that, No she can't have that, aren't you afraid you'll get fat?"
I almost feel like I have to bust out that teenage rebelliousness again. But aren't I passed that yet? I'm REALLY frustrated by my current status and situation with my family. I have essentially adjusted to my life when I was living on campus where I studied and did my work when I needed to, partied and came home when I wanted to, had "relationships" when the moment spurred, friendships with various and random characters I've met, carried on my own healthy and eventful lifestyle with limitations set on my own beliefs and not my family's.
How can I get out of my family's (who I respect and love very much) grasp of holding onto me as a teenage, if not pre-teen, girl, yet still respect them at the same time as a young adult... finally!?
