Is it possible to ruin your life and career by being online?

MY FAMILY IS GOING TO RUIN MY FUTURE?!?

• My family is crazy! Why I say this? Because they have suffered a wide variety of bad luck in their lifes. My mom is a great lawyer but ever since we moved to a new state, she hasn't been able to get a job and now she's stressed over the top and usually sounds DEPRESSING! My brother has an obsession with being with his friends. He always goes out because he feels he has to do it to fit in and is now struggling with colleges because he has applied to late and he is having to STRUGGLE ALSO! Now I have the perfect life in the family. I am homeschooled on an online program, get to set my own deadlines, lazy and still get what i want and I am also anti-social, am not in need of a girlfriend, but I still have great social skills and right now I feel threatened by my family. Because I am living the perfect life with 2 people who struggle, I am afraid that they will try to ruin my chances of going anywhere because I am living a perfect life and their not. I know it sounds crazy but I feel scared being around people who struggle because I'm afraid they will make me the same way when I'm living a perfect life. My family already thinks its weird that I don't really care to socially interact with anyone unless its about a college, or a place of career, and i think they want to get me help because I'm so different then everyone else. Who can I talk to about this, or in fact go somewhere else so my family doesn't try and do anything to me. I'm still just a junior but I want to be around people who's life's are as perfect as me so I don't have to feel so inferred about my own well being. What should I do?

• Answer:

  You should suck it up.