SteveMcGarrettsBudgieSmugglers
I am glad you found the strength to take control.
It's horrible to have unsupportive parents.
I was even afraid to admit to my parents that I had been accepted to study medicine at University as I knew what the outcome would be.
My mother - we would call her a " surrendered wife" nowadays, had no career, no aspiration, never learned to drive, wanted no more for her daughters than to be good at ironing.
My father, although benevolent was a pipe and slippers man, and all the misogyny that came with that- although he thought he was fair and outward looking.
Put into the mix grinding 60s poverty, in a huge council sink in the arse end of Scotland. No aspiration, no role model. No one at my family had been at University.
When I eventually plucked up courage to tell them the reaction was as expected.
I wouldn't fit in, I wouldn't cope with being away, my working class would hold me back, I wouldn't make friends, I wouldn't be accepted, I would struggle.
So I phoned the University and declined the offer.