Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : So first thing's first, I'm a 16yo "gifted" high school student and I've lived with my mom all my life. Since I was a kid, my mom has always been highly critical of me. My weight, my grades, my shyness, everything. She loves comparing me to her when she was a kid, how she got straight A's all the time, how she was a model when she was my age, how she graduated High school when she was 15, etc. I've never heard her say a single nice thing about me. Even when I'd come home with straight A's, she wouldn't congratulate me she'd just ask why they aren't 100s. When I developed bad allergies a few years ago and had constant congestion, she'd always call me annoying and ask if my peers found me annoying as well. I distinctly remember her telling me that I should never tell my friends about my feelings cause then they'll get annoyed with me. This isn't even bringing up her racism, homophobia and transphobia, and the physical abuse I went through as a kid.

My breaking point kinda came a year ago, when she let my useless brother come down to live with us again... and bring 4 other people including a baby. I won't get into too much about them (read 1st post on here if you want to know), but me and my brother's girlfriend, Gertrude, don't exactly get along. 

Everytime me and Gertrude would fight, she'd take her side. Even in cases when I'd do nothing wrong. (Ex. A TV repair man came to the house one day and asked if he was at the right place, I asked Gertrude's daughter (13) if she knew, and her mom got mad that I didn't ask her, then proceeded to gossip about me in the next room. She's 35 btw) I'm sick of it.

Lately her newest kick has been telling me to give up in my dream of becoming a vet, or even going to college for that matter. Just yesterday she told me that I wasn't going to be able to make it to my dream Uni because no one would want to room with me in an apartment, on account of how lazy, nasty and annoying I am. 

I've told her months ago that I plan on leaving her forever and cutting off all contact with them once I go to college, she and my useless brother called me a selfish and manipulative asshole for it. Even my very supportive Aunt told me not to do it. I want them out of my life and I don't know what else to do. So Reddit, AITA? 

TLDR; My abusive mom thinks I'm an asshole for wanting to leave her for good and cut off all contact with her. 