No Sophomore Summer Internship, Feel Like An Idiot Doing Everything Wrong

ssnicker638
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:31:37 +0000

Is your Dad only happy if it is an internship with prestige? Again, that can wait a year. Can someone talk to him? A therapist?

He realizes all the prestigious internships have already picked their interns WAY before I got into my new school as a transfer, but he still wants me to do some type of career-related internship this summer (again, a far stretch as most internships in my major are unpaid and picked their interns in the winter).

My parents sent me to a therapist a few times in high school, but unfortunately this therapist was someone from the same Asian country as us, spoke very little English, and was very unfamiliar with greater American culture. She told me and my parents that my parents spoiled me too much growing up, and as a result, I’m an unrepentant narcissist. Because I’m apparently so spoiled and selfish, my depression is apparently a sad stunt for attention that only causes my parents great suffering. Ever since my Asian therapist told our family this in high school, my parents have essentially used her “expertise” as proof that they can do whatever they want to me and it’s always justified since they were “too nice” to me as a child.