Life Advice Hey basil, I guess this is going to be a serious thread. I realize this is a weird place to post this, but it's one of the sites where I feel I can relate to a lot of people and feel comfortable anonymous. I just don't even know what to do anymore. Don't read this if you can't take walls of text. I'm a sophomore in high school, and I live in a standard upper-middle class Asian family. I grew up with my father dead and my mother raised me with my housekeeper. I have an older half-brother who I look up to in every way. He's naturally a genius- studied at Cornell and engineers for the gov't. My mom works really hard to keep us afloat but as a result, she could be really abusive. She traumatized my brother when he was younger throug