After hitting a wall at the school, my parents didn't give up.They quickly came up with a new, even nastier move: public opinion.A few days later, a local clickbait social media account posted a video.In it, Mom sobbed like her heart was being ripped out, and Dad looked grief-stricken and outraged. They told the camera how their son had turned into an ungrateful social climber who forgot where he came from. How, after getting into a big-name university, he'd abandoned his poor, sick parents and his "intellectually disabled" sister.They painted me as a cold-blooded, heartless, ungrateful son, and they twisted the college life I'd fought so hard to protect into a life of "luxury and self-indulgence" paid for with their blood and sweat.The video was carefully edited, set to tearjerking music and captions. It was extremely convincing.Almost overnight, the internet exploded with people cursing me out."Are all college kids this ungrateful now?""Parents give everything, and th
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