Today, my mother was re-enrolling me in school so she was required to fill out some paperwork. Later, she asked me, "What does caucasian mean?" I replied, "Why?" Apparently she didn't recognize the word, so she checked "Other" and wrote in "White". FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had to slowly and very seriously explain to my mother why there is no 'White History Month'. I can't believe we are actually related. FML
Today, I had to explain to my white girlfriend that dating me doesn't give her the right to call my mother the N-word. FML
Today, my mother continued her lifelong habit of talking to anyone who isn't white in extremely slow, exaggerated "caveman" English. She insists that she isn't being racist, but rather is helping. FML
Today, I was stuck on a campus tour with my subtly racist mother who, in an attempt to seem open-minded, deemed it appropriate to refer to our black tour guide as "Sistah". FML
Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
Today, because no one else was willing to, I had to explain to my uncle that he's white, that I'm not his grandfather, and that he's mentally challenged. FML
Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML
Today, I overheard my caucasian mother on the phone lamenting to a friend that her future grandchildren won’t “look American”. Any future grandchildren of hers would be half Lakota native. FML
Today, I went to see the school counselor to schedule my classes for school. She asked me if I knew how to speak English. My parents are Chinese and I don't even know how to speak Chinese. I've lived in America my whole life. Plus, I even spoke to her in English to ask about classes. FML
Today, my mom hit me in the face after an argument she didn't win. According to her, Mexican and American are languages, and not dialects or nationalities. She even argued with my teachers, and threatened to remove me "from a school full of uneducated people" after they told her I was correct. FML
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Top comments
macfluffers 0
That's so ridiculous! XD It's funny how some people don't know common ideas.
bitchtits 0
yea F your mom's life, glad you're going to school...she clearly didn't
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Comments (102)
musicalmandi16 0
i agree with #8. good for you. f her life.
Gruesomekthxbai 0
LOLFAIL
DaNNo71886 0
funny... but this is NOT an fmylife. more fitting of a 'your momma's so stupid' joke.
Vonnick 0
Are you kidding me? :dazed:
buttercup707 0
when I was about 7 years old my sister's then boyfriend put Caucasian as ethnicity on myspace. He was a funny guy, so I laughed and told my sister, hey look he put caucasian as the race. She later informed me caucasian meant white. I felt so dumb.
nat66623 0
This is not an FML..
Vonnick 0
Some schools have racial issues and they need to know before hand what the ethnicity is. That's what the matter is.
Lick_yer_face 0
Didn't your mum wonder why she had to pick "other" for white, in a country with a white majority (I assume)? :-S Still, I only realised what Caucasian meant a couple of years ago... although we don't use that term in England.
beffburger 0
ummmm yes we do....
Failercoptor 0
Dammit, its called the internet, she should just freaking google it
snapperturtle 0
Can't you fill out your own enrollment forms?