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My parents wont let pursue my dreams!!? actor/model or motocross rider.?

• okay well its mostly my mom who won't let me pursue them my dad just acts like i didn't say anything or just says okay but doesn't really mean it. I actually have two dreams one; to be a actor/model. I'm 5'9 15 years old and i have always wanted to be a model but my mom argues saying we have no money which is complete bullshit because she goes shopping every two days with her best friend. She just doesn't have money for the things i want to do. Second she never even helped me apply to be a model she just says no we'll do it another day and that day never comes. For young models i know usually your parents act as your manager, well my mom doesn't do **** to help me, i have search the web for all the top modeling agencies in NY which takes up most of my day. My mother refuses to pay or even let me pay for backstage.com which is where you can apply for casting jobs. No matter how much i try to talk about modeling or acting she thinks it as a joke. My mother dreams of me becoming a lawyer at notre dame yet she always says we don't have money, how does she expect me to become a lawyer at NOTRE DAME??? she doesn't understand that i don't want to be what she expects she wants me to be her perfect lawyer daughter. My second dream is to become a motocross racer. ( i no becoming a actor/model is ALOT different from a motocross racer) I have road dirt bikes before but i have never been on a motocross track only trails in nearby woods or with my friends family which i barley see her anymore. i love the rush of riding dirt bikes but my parents think it more as a hobby. I dream of racing at Raceway Park in new jersey one day( which is about 20mins away from my home.) even my parents know that i would like to go to raceway park one day to race or even practice on the tracks there but my dad always just pushes it off. And you cant go their without all the equipment/clothing of a racer. I do not have a chest protector which prevents me from being able to go. I have asked my dad numerous times if he can take me to get a chest protector and he says he will but never does. I even have the money saved up for it. My parents don't spend a dime to help me pursue my dreams, I even had to save up penny by penny to buy the 800$ dirt bike that i have now. My parents know that i dream of modeling/acting, but they think of dirt biking as a hobby, but they don't know that i actually might want to make a living career as a model/actor or a motocross rider they still think that i am going to be a lawyer. How can i tell my that i don't really want to be a lawyer and that i really want to be a actor/model or a motocross rider and how could i get them to accept the fact and support me?

• Answer:

  I honestly, if I had the gut to because I'm really shy, I would try to tell your parents that it's your life and they can't tell you how to live it, nicely though. (I figured out if you say please and ask alot they either say yes, maybe or it just annoys them) You can prove to them that your obvisouly responsible enough to handle things on your own. Also from life experiance, if you tal to them in person it gives you a better chance also. I have the same problems though. I'm only 13 but I've tried just about every sport and most of them I don't like so I quit. So now my mom thinks that I can't comit to anything. I've tried gymnastics, that was kinda forced by my stepmom, soccer, basketball, guitar, bass, & drums. I've love motocross and have risen at like starwest which is perris ca. But apparently it's too expensive. I wanna be an eyemakeup model but my mom thinks it's a childish dream that won't come true but my cousin is recently a model. And I really wanna try softball. but since I'm not that perfect daughter that my mom is they think I'm lazy and don't like sports and can't comit so they don't feel like spending money. But my mom ends up buying $40 shampoo and conditioner and I get sucky generic conditioner that makes my hair greasy. And my dad was really the only one that cared but he died because of cancer recently and since then life is "wonderful". Sorry got off track. But yeah I would try to talk to them and say ur responsible enough. Hope this helps!