Trouble with my mother

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'll try my best to make a long story short. </p>

<p>My mom frequently makes a lot of facebook posts on my friends' statuses that have no bearing on the real world. The most recent example would be her saying that there is only one or two languages spoken in the US. Someone else on my friend's friend list posted how this is not true and there are tons of languages spoken throughout the us. I noticed the post and mentioned to her that there are a lot of languages with over 200,000 speakers in the US, and just showed her some pages, ending with, "isn't that cool?". I was not trying to be condescending at all and just wanted her to have a better picture of the US.</p>

<p>She immediately begins crying and says, "ITS THINGS LIKE THIS.." "GET OFF YOUR ****ING HIGH HORSE" and runs into the bathroom and locks the door. My mother has recently started attending CC classes, and I tend to provide her with some opposing viewpoints so we both can get a better understanding of the world. We live in a small town so she really doesn't have much exposure to anything outside of grammatically incorrect english.</p>

<p>It would be one thing if it was something I could just ignore, but she is friends with all of my facebook friends and is just throwing these facts all over the place. It could be self centered but I feel that these make me look bad (I haven't told this to her). </p>

<p>Anyone have any advice?</p>

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<p>Accept her for who she is and hope that your friends know she is not you and therefore will not use her actions to judge you.</p>

<p>Realize that generally you will not be successful in changing someone else’s mind. You can provide information if you want, but realize that she (or anyone else) may choose to disregard it. </p>

<p>Be kind to your mother as it appears that she is having some personal issues (maybe hormonal, maybe not ready for you to leave home, maybe finances, maybe love life issues, maybe something else). Be accepting and supportive and helpful. </p>

<p>Approach is everything… ask her where she found that information, as you would like to learn more (even if you know she’s entirely wrong)… perhaps when she goes to show you she will find that she is wrong, without you being the one to point it out.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Wait, she seriously thought there was only 1 spoken language in the US? Like that is a factual statement of her beliefs? w t f lol</p>

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<p>lol @ “crazymomster”</p>

<p>OP, she found you!!</p>

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<p>Just talk to her. </p>

<p>Thank goodness my parents are computer illiterate.</p>

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<p>Wow that is sad. I think the problem is that there’s tension because you two are so different. What happened to your dad?</p>

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<p>Your mother is an idiot.</p>