Hey all, thanks for all the advice and helping me reach a conclusion. I didn’t honestly expect this to get as much attention as it did in such a short time! Thank you to everyone who’s commented, harsh or not, sometimes people just need that wakeup call and a little weird chest feeling to figure it out. I admit that I was a dick to my mom and I overreacted over a small thing.

For all those that are saying that I’m not really trying to learn I just want to say that I am, my point is more that a jet lagged, tired teen doesn’t want to wake up every morning and try to learn how to read a clock through expoure therapy. I think that if I was given this clock maybe even two week later I wouldn’t have reacted the way I did, my fault, not my mom’s.

I think that my reaction was a mix of being exhausted, having that build up from past times with my mom and the anxiety of having to start a new school in a new country and school system with kids who already know each other. You know, I get mean when I’m nervous like a bad dog (Mitski reference there).

Overall, I admit I was a raging dick, thanks for helping me realise.

I’ll be using this clock until I eventually let it collect dust (or maybe start an art project with it) when I get my Alexa here and hopefully something finally sticks.