Cool People Have Parents!

Hello,

I talked to my Dad Today, we just chatted together and had a nice time, I do that sometimes. I chat to my parents, like friends, because I am weird, but I have always treated my parents as equals and they have always treated me like that too. I am one of the lucky ones, one of the people who's parents aren't that strict, I get on well with them, we are a close family, I tell them a lot of what is going on in my life. But I still need outside friends, people my own age who I can just be silly with.

I have four friends my own age and two of them are on the computer. My fifth friend lives far away and we talk occasionally on the phone or over Facebook, but we don't talk often. My two main friends are both two years younger than me and one of them goes to school and the other one lives in Shaftsbury, so I can't just pop over to see her whenever I want. I count myself lucky to have so many friends though, I am lucky to have such good friends too.

It is a common problem for people who are home schooled (like me) or people who have recently left school, to have trouble making new friends. At school you are forced to spend time with other people and often those people will become your friends. But when you leave school, you have to do all the work meeting people and befriending them without sounding desperate or being awkward or just ending up as a recluse. I met my friend who goes to school when I was four so that was easy. My home schooled friend in Shaftsbury I met at a meet up organised my our respective mothers. We get on well but we don't see each other often. these two girls are my best friends, I know I am probably not theirs but that surprisingly doesn't bother me.
I have more friends (and definitely more real friends) now than I did when I was ta school. I am doing everything backwards.  

I talked to my Dad today and I realised something. My parents may be just that; parents. But they are mine and I love them, I know I haven't been an easy daughter with my depression and general obsessive behaviour over the last few months and years but I love them so much that I got motivated to get of my depression because I didn't want to stress them out and make them worry. I think I have a close and healthy relationship with them :)

I may not be the coolest person in the world, I still hold my Mum and Dad's hands in public, (I just don't care about what people think about that). But I am still a 16 year old desperate to fit in and I don't fit in at all, except at home. My parents aren't immortal (I'm not saying their old I'm just saying YOLO) (I hate YOLO) And neither am I, so I can spend time with them whenever I want.

I am not too cool to hang out with my parents!

From now on I will spend more time with them, pinkie promise :)

bye.