So back in September '19, I started work placement at a pre-school alongside a college traineeship with a view to an apprenticeship and became friends with an older lady working there. She just made me feel welcome, part of the team and was always the one to get me talking really. She's 35 with 4 children but in some ways, she is quite immature with some of the things she jokes about, but as a 19 year old lad, that's something I like about her. Just so you know for sure, there is absolutely nothing more to it than that, I think of her as being like an older sister to me and have never thought of her romantically or sexually. Then when I had to stop working there because lockdown she became a Scentsy consultant and Mum became one of her customers, very quickly. And they've just became closer and closer since then.
My friend (or should I say, my Mum's friend) doesn't know this but as someone with autism, I've always struggled socially and never had any friends up until I first started there. She was the first person who wasn't a family member who I felt like I could talk to about anything. That got to a point where I started to drift away from my Mum because everything I tell her, she tells my stepdad. And whenever I try to talk to her about something bad that's going on in my life, I will end up having a 4 hour long lecture from him about what I need to do and why it's my fault, blah blah blah.
I felt like my Mum felt jealous of her because of this so she deliberately befriended her so that she could see how close we were and get her to become closer to her than she was me.
Now, they're best friends. They're planning to go on holiday together and all sorts. It really upsets me that she did that but to I have a right to be upset?