Stepmom, eh? I wonder if mine is the reason I got kicked to the wind as soon as I graduated highschool, even though I couldn't get that loan to the University I was accepted to, so I didn't have a dorm to stay in. I don't want to think it was her decision. I don't want to think my dad would do that to me either. I'm lucky I managed to get my friend's parents to let me live with them. But I can't help but think that if it wasn't for that, my only choice would be to find a program for homeless college age teens. And that scares me. But I don't want to think that they would have still kicked me out if I hadn't managed to room at my friend's place at the last second. I don't want to think I was that much of an unwanted burden.
This had happened to me, but I am thankful for the fact that I never had people telling me I was selfish for it.
My mother and father divorced when I was two, and while that was for the better, my mom couldn't find a new boyfriend worth anything, so she got herself a job and left me with my abusive aunt and her two children until we got our own place 5 years later, where I had to stay at a daycare center after school until 10 pm every day until I was 13, too old to stay there any longer. Then I got to stay home alone, and it's been like that for four years.
It's kind of funny, I look back at when I was 5 and remember hating my aunt, her house, and my two cousins because of what they did and how they acted, but I enjoy my current situation. Being an introvert, being alone allows me to be with my thoughts and my instruments, I can play the piano and my guitar as loudly and as passionately as I please with nobody bothering me, and nobody to criticize me.
I sympathize with yuumei (the person who drew this comic), I really, really do.
To be honest, though?
I would rather all those people who left me alone to just fuck off, and stay the hell away from me.