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Input: I just wanted to know a more objective opinion, because I fell like everyone who knows any party in this situation is going to be biased. The story isn’t exactly very interesting or life changing, but I have been feeling wronged and like an ass simultaneously, and don’t know what to do. Should I apologize?

So basically, it all started as a normal conversation at the dinner table, there haven’t been any arguments recently or anything, and everyone seemed to be in a good mood. My parents were asking about my plans for the summer, so I said that I was going to try to get an internship at a psychiatric hospital for the two moths I will have off from uni (it is something that many med students do where I am from, not necessarily a psychiatric hospital, but in a hospital in general, because that helps with getting a job later), and didn’t want to add any other plans in advance in case I get it, so that there wouldn’t be any complications later.
My mother instantly seemed to be annoyed by what I said, and simply replied with:

M: “If you want to work in a psychiatric hospital you should get of your medication first”

I felt that this was really out of nowhere, because my medication is not exactly for a behavioural problem, or for a mood disorder, or anything. And even if it was, what does it have to do with anything? When dad saw where the mood was shifting, he instantly excused himself out of there (honestly, I wish I had done the same thing), and so there I was, left alone with my mum. I told her, that the medication I was on was prescribed by a professional, and that it really improves my general wellbeing (it is a SNRI, because I have insomnia, and it really helps me sleep).
She says, that I am too young to be on that kind of medication and therefore am not mentally stable enough for that kind of job. I got a bit irritated, not going to lie. She constantly tells me that I shouldn’t act like a know it all because I don’t have a degree yet, but sometimes the things she says are really ridiculous and she still won’t just accept that sometimes she’s wrong.

So, this is the part that I regret. I was tired of listening to that, so I interrupted her and said, that if she has no medical training at all, let alone a degree in any medical field, she shouldn’t think that she knows better than professionals and that she shouldn’t just throw her uninformed opinion around. She got angry about this, and said that she was just looking out for me, and that I supposedly never listen to her. I got up and tried left the room, because I didn’t see the conversation being beneficial in any way, because we were just both getting mad, and haven’t really addressed this to her since.

I feel like I was wrong by telling her not to say what she thinks, because that’s just her opinion, and when I think back, she should be allowed to express it. But I also feel like it was wrong of her to call me out on a thing I have no control over.

AITA for not wanting to hear her out, because I thought, that her opinion was uninformed?


refusing to listen to my mothers opinion on my medication