Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Hey, everyone. I’m just gonna get to the point.

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I'm a 16 year old (closeted) transwoman in my junior year. I've been using things like Kik, Skype, Discord, all that to communicate with my friends and find communities for certain topics. I've always been smart about this, and the furthest I've gone in telling people my personal information was my time zone. I'm not an idiot when it comes to personal security, and I don't leak any of my information.

However, ever since I got a phone when I was 14, my entire family (mostly my mom) have been checking it. I get why, even if it's a bit awkward at times. They'll go through all my apps, and even though it always makes me uncomfortable and go all "what do you have to hide?" on me when I ask them not to.

Recently, I started to use Skype for talking to my friends about personal stuff. Things like insecurities, my work, my home life, all that, and I came out to them too about my identity. I have asked my family (especially my mom) to please stay off my phone in the past, and clarified it wasn't that I was hiding something bad or illegal, it's just that I want some privacy in my life. Naturally, they ignored it. So it's not that they *didn't know* I was against it. But either way, I was using my phone at school once, which isn't often since I like to believe I'm a good student. I got caught, family took it away. 

But at school, I was told my account was online. It freaked me out, since it wasn't just my personal stuff that they would see, such as me mentioning I  have a lot of issues with my family, and that I'm trans and have into dudes, but all of my FRIENDS secrets as well. All of that stuff, violated. 

As a result, my parents forcibly outed me. They believed I was being preyed on by weirdos over the internet (the people I talked to who I didn't know in person). Regarding talking to my friends about my life, they said that wasn't necessary because I could do that with *them*, or my therapist. And don't get me wrong, I talk to my therapist about everything (but that's once a month) and my mom about stuff like school, but  I'm not going to talk to my mother about mental health when I regularly get shut down.

After several months, I finally got back on Discord. I said I would only use it for gaming with my real life friends, and they can check it all they want. But what they don't know is that I've been using an alternate account to chat with my friends about serious real life issues.

It should be noted that I'm fully aware that yes, family doing stuff like stalking your social media and checking your phone every night with no semblance of privacy is "abuse". They've read my journals and letters I've gotten too, but even then, I honestly don't see it. 

I'm also aware that I'm lying to my parents, and that's not good. But I just need to talk, and they're not making it easy, especially when they reject every attempt for me to.

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So. AITA?