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Do you think its ridiculous for your best friends mom to judge you?
My best friends mom thinks I'm like a bad influence because I am vegan, and eat organic. I mean clearly she must be uneducated in health. Sure best friends mom you can slurp up some more aspartame, and down another quart of sugar, but I wont. I am 15, and I do not know how to confront this problem. I do not care what her diet consists of...so why does she hate me for mine?
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i know how you feel because im a vegetarian. people always ask me how i can survive without eating meat in a mean way. but what you should do is tell your friend if she doesnt know and ask her if you can talk to her mom and tell her how you feel when she says that.
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She thinks you are one of them thar commie pinko types seeking to rob America of its precious bodily fluids.
Unless, of course, there is more going on here than you are letting on.
Look, sometimes you run into idiots and there is nothing you can do about it. You don't need to win their approval because you can't.
People are herd animals and half of them have IQs under 100. And one of the more extreme example of that is the woman who has produced your friend, who is so obsessed with what she is comfortable with that she won't accept any other ways of doing things, even when they are benign. You get this with religious nuts, too.
Read "Escape from Freedom" by Erich Fromme and you will understand this better.
As for you, you are the only one who can live your life and make yourself happy. So when you smell bullshit don't sign up for a big heapin' helpin' just to make people happy.
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I dont think it is a problem with you... Probably just when you talk about foods you can come off a little rude... (i dont know if this is true about you or not) I have a friend who is a vegetarian and she will look at others and say things like eww gross how can you eat that and try to force her opinion on other people.. if you are doing this it may make you seem rude and also like you are insulting them.... also she is just looking out for her daughter she wants to make sure her daughter is healthy and strong and she may not think that your diet would be good for her baby... parents can be a little over protective sometimes but that is only because they love their children and want the best for them... maybe you could talk to her mom NICELY and explain that you are feeling a little hurt by the things she says and the way she judges you and that you mean no disrespect you just would like her to stop hurting you good luck
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Her mom probably doesn't care about your food choices. Maybe it's the fact that you're expressing them in a way that makes you sound arrogant. Nobody wants to be judged by what they eat, so let her slurp up aspartame without cringing or commenting on it. What you feed your body is all you can be responsible for. What somebody else feeds their body is something that isn't your business.
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She probably doesn't hate you for it, she probably just hates how judgmental you sound when you talk about food. You certainly sound that way here. You don't need to comment on what other people are eating all the time. Its great that you feel passionately about your food choices, but people have been eating bad stuff since the beginning of time, and our general life expectancy has never been longer than it is now. Its a choice. The best way to take care of the situation is simply not talk food when you are around her, and don't judge your friend for the food she eats either. When people see that you respect the choices they make for themselves, they will respect the choices you make for yourself as well.
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