@CyanLightning
From a point of view, between the anormality of the behavior of all the members of your family as you describe, it became to be the ’normality’ there, so taking this idea, then the ’strange’ one because of acting rationally is you, but ’strange’ doesn’t necessary means bad, depending of the context it can be very good, and that you are the only one that is sane? I don’t doubt it; they can’t clearly understand you despite the efforts, either is because they directly don’t want or it’s because of a simply incapability.
Sometimes being able to see a world from a different perspective than the other people, and at the same time being unable to try to make them understand, ends to be frustrating, stressful, because you don’t have even one person to identify with, and they can’t see what you see. Is like to scream without no one noticing it, and without being able to listen even your own voice.
I said this times before and it’s supposed that every person should knew it before, but the respect it’s not a way of thinking that it’s automatically tied between familiars, it’s a bond that should be developed, you can’t pretend to feel love or even affect towards someone that been abusive, or that even destroyed your dreams to attach to what they think is right, that’s unnatural; and it’ll be hyprocresy. Give and take; but without taking something, therefore no reason to give back something unexistent. I really wish that your parents someday understand such simple and logical concept, one can dream.
But what is more outrageous; is that they think that abussing is correct, in what kind of mind can that idea fit? If they claim that younger persons should follow what the older ones says, I don’t know, for putting an extreme example: should I’ll be following the ideas of a famous dictator from here only because he’s an old person and therefore has more experience in life, even if I completely disagree with his thinking? They can provoke you pain, they can mock you, hit you, do whatever to you, but they will not be able to take away the ideas, and that, that’s one of the most valuable thing that we have; each second that happens, strongest it is.