Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
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Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, I was in class just taking notes and minding my own business. The teacher has already called my parents twice complaining about me. As we are taking 3 pages of notes she grabs mine and rips them up, saying that she is sick and tired of me drawing. I was drawing the graphs on the board. FML
Today, my parents are upset that I never ask them for help with my homework and struggle with it myself. They won't accept the answer that whenever I do, they're always yelling at me and putting me down. Dad in particular can't get through one assignment without becoming a screaming tyrant about my handwriting. FML
Today, I finished my classwork and my homework early. Since we weren't allowed to leave the room, I decided to draw. My teacher noticed and gave me detention for "goofing off" when I should be doing my work. When I told the teacher I was already done, they gave me a second detention for "attempting to defy them". FML
Today, I was doing homework in the living room when my mom came in and started blasting music and cleaning. When I asked if she could turn it off so I could study, she bitched at me about "My house, my rules." She also has a rule that we can’t do homework in our rooms because of too many distractions. FML
Today, I had to do a still life of a pillowcase for my drawing class. To make up for bad grades I've gotten before, I followed my professor's directions to a T. He took 19 points off because I drew the background when no one else did. We have to do it for every piece. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
Today, my mom complained that I was being too loud, and she smacked my head really hard. All while screaming at me. FML
Today, I was crying after having argued with my boyfriend. My mom saw me, she asked, "Why are you crying? Don't you have homework to do?" FML
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people_annoy_me 23
What great parenting.
notsofriendful 4
Try telling your teacher that...
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worldclassrager 41
Tape it back together?
XBurytheCastleX 25
That reminds me of my sketch I made for my friend... I put it on the table for a minute and my dad tore it up.
TogeBara 12
There are a lot of parents that feel that the arts aren't worth your time and you should be focused on sciences and math or literature. As a game designer and artist, this is stupid and there are plenty of opportunities for hard-working talented or at least smart artists.
ArashiGirl 13
Man... Your mom sounds like a bitch...Reminds me of the time my mom got pissed at me for being upset at being not allowed to play with my friends (because I was wearing a long skirt, despite the fact I had worn dresses and skirts to the park and been fine) and being forced literally to sit next to her and watch them play and as punishment screamed at me in front of them and made me start to clean up my room one piece of paper at a time, anytime I tried to pick up more then one she tore them out of my hand and threw them on the ground until I was a sobbing mess. She finally let me off the hook and my best friend got me out of the house for awhile, while I bitched and moaned about her the entire time. As it is it just got worse from there as her little sister (they were staying with us) stayed behind to listen to my mother rant to my uncle about me and eagerly got in my face and bragged about how "we were talking about you" behind my back...Cue sobbing mes that was me a second time. My friend actually called my mom a bitch for it, and called her one again when she did another public humiliation tactic, by screaming at me in front of my friend and then yelling at me more while my friend waited inside a store and then sent us off to look around and...I was rendered to crying in a public establishment. My mom has since gotten better about her temper, but man... She knew how to render me to a quivering puddle of sweat.
Thunderstruck14 30
Aw, that sucks. I've had to deal with an angry mother too... I had this inflatable guitar toy and one day when she was mad she cut it into pieces and threw it out, along with a lot of other things that were in my room (she locked me out of the house so she could do it) and I had to go fishing my stuff out of the outside trash bin. She used to hit me too, and now says that she was only punishing me. Except when someone's screaming and throwing things at you and grabbing the nearest object to hit you with it, that isn't punishment, that's abuse. Emotional abuse isn't alright either... I've had family talk bad about me behind my back.. except it wasn't really behind my back because I could hear them and I told them to stop multiple times. I was crying too. I tried texting my friend but he had to go to bed after a little while. Its the absolute worst. Its so stupid... once a parent realizes that they're making their kid cry and feel miserable, or they're breaking their kid's stuff, they just just take a step back and think about what they're doing and take some anger management class if they have to, because if you love someone, you're supposed to do whatever you can to not hurt them.
Baby_Wafflez 6
That's terrible!
ArashiGirl 13
My mom loves me I have no doubt in my mind about it, just sometimes she didn't know when to stop and when she realized how much pain she caused me she really did try her hardest to do better and felt horrible about it. I'm sorry your mom treated you like that, that's awful.
CaroAurelia 12
Wow. And I thought my mum was bad. At least she only acts like a bitch in private.
HarleyQuinn1996 8
That was uncalled for, my grandmother did something like that to me once and I was done, that's basically psychological abuse and I got the hell out of there, I still won't talk to her. I can't say that you should do that OP, but that was really uncalled for, I hope you got an apology and if not, I'm so so sorry about your art homework.
Vlortch_fml 6
Rofl I keep reading FMLs about people who spend weeks doing a single drawing... It's too damn long, unless it's the size of a wall, a very big wall.
slyde32 12
or you know, they're taking their time making sure it's perfect, small things can take a long time, too
Mirorbo 27
Vlortch, unless you are a professional artist whom has trained much of their life to produce a perfect masterpiece in only a few hours--**** off.
syed121417 22
You do realize a good drawing doesn't happen just as regular homework does, right? It's art. It takes time to become good.
Baby_Wafflez 6
She's insane.
cchan034 23
Just tape it back together and call it modern art
jack_dee 6
Man that must suck. You should make her redraw it
Zerizle 19
Even if it wasn't homework...your mom shouldn't have ripped up your drawing like that. That's just wrong and terribly disrespectful, especially if it's your own daughter.