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...See more My family and I met up with my uncle for breakfast today and I thought they were understanding me a bit better in the past year or so but today the only thing he really said to me at all was ridiculing my choice to be vegetarian. He is quite conservative and owns a farm so I always knew he wouldn’t completely support this choice of mine but the past few times we’ve met up he seemed to be quite accepting of it, I wouldn’t say he was supportive by any means however but he didn’t lecture me about why I should eat meat which is what I thought he would do. When he brought up my studies, he took the opportunity to call me an “educated idiot”. In those words. A grown man called me, his teenage niece, an idiot. How does one reply to that? Especially to someone I don’t feel like I know at all. Ive never felt completely comfortable with that side of my family and whenever we meet up I feel tense and nervous. When I was younger I would say to myself that when I grow up I’ll go to a great university, study an amazing degree, move abroad and they won’t be able to say anything anymore. I am now at one of the best universities in the country, studying one of the hardest degrees to get accepted to, graduated high school at the top of my class and I’ll be leaving for a year long study abroad very soon and still they find something to make fun of. I would really like some advice if anyone has gone though something similar or has some advice as someone not as caught up in this situation as I am. 💜

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