# scampaign Just like everything else she does . As noted , no guarantee the money goes to that but instead to her . As seen on Russia Today . <| sep |> Keep going guys we ' re 25 % of the way there already . <| sep |> Once I hit about 13 my parents and I started to fight all the time . Especially my mom , who was starting her descent into alcoholism . We had disagreements on what then seemed like fundamental , insurmountable issues . Shit really hit the fan when they realized I was smoking weed and drinking at 16 and I was basically the typical defiant , know it all , rebellious teenager , though I still excelled in school . My first year of college I was having a hard time because my family and general perspective on life I ' d been coming from put me into depression and I was trying to find some sense of self . This period of time was really bad cause it was the peak of my mom ' s drinking and she ' d routinely send me long texts late at night telling me how much of a failure I am and such . So i failed out and moved back home , and in the state things were I couldn ' t stand being there . I met my boyfriend and our current group of friends at the community college I went to and basically just stopped replying to the texts and started couch surfing basically . A little later when we couldn ' t keep doing that , we just fucked around and traveled with his homeless friend , and I basically just told them I was traveling up north to visit some friends I mean kind of true , but I was hitchiking and the friends had asked if we wanted to help out on their . uh . farm . So fast forward , we stop traveling and get jobs and move in with some friends , my parents reach out and I start at least returning their calls and going for holidays . With my parents now starting to accept that we had some major differences rather than try to change me , we started to become much more open with each other . I opened up about struggling with depression and how they had dismissed that completely when I tried to reach out in high school . My dad asked me to help talk to my mom about her alcohol use and we got her to admit she had a problem and start seeking treatment . She hasn ' t yet other than seeing a psychologist , but we ' ve told her how she acts when she ' s drunk so she at least drinks the most once everyone ' s in bed so we don ' t see it and that becomes less and less frequent . I even talked to my dad today about weed , and why I smoke it I have a chronic illness so while it is nice to get high , it does have a lot of benefits for me , and I think we understand each other a bit more . It ' s nice to grow and understand each other , but it almost feels weird because of how different it was before .