Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Background: i’m on my school’s competing poetry team. we’re a group of six who work by picking poems from the competition’s anthology and writing responses. then we will compete in a state competition. 

so i got back from practice really excited. a lot of our poems are looking great and we have some performances coming up next week. i was telling all my mom this and she started talking about how she had a student (my mom is a high school counselor) who she had to do an assessment on because she wrote an inappropriate response poem about her mental health. my mom was saying how the teacher tried to remove the inappropriate poems from the choices and how she was upset that the poem was in the anthology in the first place. and maybe she’s right but poetry can get heavy and i’m not the one who chooses the poems. however i’m also wondering why the teacher didn’t check the poems first before kids performed. 

after my mom finished her sentence i got up and left. she asked why i was leaving and i said “because this conversation is over?” later my mom yelled at me saying “i brought it up because it was traumatic for me so i don’t appreciate you punishing me!” 

really though, i’m mainly upset because she’s telling me about this incident with her student AGAIN. i feel like i can’t talk about my passion without her basically criticizing the competition i work hard to be in. and she talks about it when i’m being excited and happy. it feels like she isn’t listening to me. 

i also don’t think she should be telling me, another high school student (although at a different school), about a private incident that happened with her student, even though my mom didn’t use a name. if i were that student i’d be really pissed to hear my counselor was telling my personal business to her daughter. 

idk though sometimes i know i can be pretty insensitive and stubborn without knowing it. it’s definitely a flaw of mine. 

so AITA who should cut my mom some slack or can i rightfully ask her to stop? 