My mom says she is so glad she's not raising me now. She said it was always a fight when I was a kid, as it was. She said every new school would call her up about my "attitude". She would ask them - "is she doing her homework?" well, yes. "is she passing the tests?" well, yes. "Then leave her alone. I know she's not disruptive because she doesn't like other kids. Let her be." Every school was the same thing. I sat in the back of the room, did my homework, passed the tests, read insane amounts of books while knitting. School was stupid. Even in high school there were a few fights she had to have with them. She says now they would have insisted on drugging me and probably without her permission. She was always very interested in what we were doing in school. If there was a "field trip," it was up to me if I wanted to go or be locked in a room alone with my books and knitting. Most of the field trips were brainwashing garbage and I didn't bother going. As an adult, we're able to talk more freely about what was going on in school because I have a better understanding of it all. She says she wishes she had known the right questions to ask when I was a kid because she would have put a stop to a lot of it. She's where I inherited my "conspiratorial mind" so even as a kid, I knew she'd always take my side if I was able to make sense of it, even if it was "something about this makes me uncomfortable."