Right you are! Despite her, it sounds like you turned out to be a good person. She has to be sick to do that to her own kid! Why would you deserve that?

Hell, if I had kids, I wouldn't let them see her ever again if I found out about something like that. Though I guess that depends on how much your kids enjoy being around her.

Damm right **** that, she deserves to be isolated

In 1996 we were still using Microsoft 3.0 of some shit. There was no google search or websites to really go to to check out all this information. We were still writing papers with the aid of these things that are called "Libraries" and "Encyclopedias" using microfiche, card catalogs and dot matrix printers. Your scanning abilities were limited to what kinkos was open when you needed to scan or the libraries copier. I'm sorry your mom is such a sociopath and psychopath. She should have been proud of you and what you might have accomplished at Yale. You did not deserve what she did to you.

I concur!

I hope you still were able to make something fantastic out of yourself. I couldn't imagine finding out such betrayal for something of this magnitude. No one deserve such self centred, disgusting parentage

140 - What are microfiches, card catalogues, and dot matrix printers? What is a world without google? How did you get ANYTHING done?!

I have to agree with OP. she's got some major consequences coming her way. ( the mother)

Good for you to boot her out of your life; that is unforgiveable. I don't care if people say "oh but it's your mother," it doesnt matter who they are, parents don't get untouchable innocence just because they made you. She should have been punished legally for tampering with your mail as well, and if possible, for forging a letter that impersonated Yale. Stuff like this infuriates me because people will still defend the parent just because they are a parent.

You need to go slap a bitch!!!

Let her live the rest of her sorry ass life alone, no grand kids, no visiting, treat her as non-existent, that's the cruelest punishment you can give.

Not that it matters, but where did you go? Anyways, I hope you're still happy with how things turned out, regardless of your mothers betrayal.

I wonder how she was able to hide that lie for so long without guilt, and I wonder how you actually found out what she did.

I really feel sorry for you. If you were good enough to get accepted into Yale, you really didn't deserve it. I just hope it didn't hurt you and your career much.

I'm sorry but your mum sounds like a jealous bitch.

Sorry for you OP. Some people should not be allowed to be parents and your mom is one of them. She is a horrible mean person who will pay her selfishness by not seeing her son and her grand-children growing up. Hope you still got what you were looking for as a career.

That's right op!

Damn straight. Don't worry about people telling you that YDI. There will always be congenital idiots.

I'm curious too about how she found out about it

Your mom is a sad and bitter excuse for a human being.

Damn ******* straight

Agree on all counts. She might have gone to criminal lengths (mail tampering, fraud) to avoid being 'upstaged', but it sounds like you are far outstripping her as a parent.

You are an ignorant piece of shit.

You should sue her for emotional damages spanning 17 years. You would win that lawsuit hands down. And part of your settlement should be that your **** mother HAS to reimburse you four full years of tuition at Yale. And then when she's poor, destitute, and desperate, tell her she can come stay with you HA but just kidding actually put her in the worst retirement home you can.

OP I'm sorry this happened to you. I actually had a similar experience. My mom made a fake rejection letter from my dream high school (Fonntebonne ) and I found out this year. My senior year. So much for parents wanting their kids to do better than them. What's worse is that when I got the rejection letter she had the audacity to make me feel like shit about not getting in.

Wtf? Just.... Wtf

Dude I agree with you. That's ****** up.

Really? I mean..are you completely daft?

Sorry! Should've mentioned that my post (215) was in response to #151 NOT OP

Hard work, ingenuity and actually studying! Paying attention in school and getting by on what we know or learned and not what a website said! I was 24 when I got my first computer! Plus if you were rich enough to have a computer it took about 5 minutes just to connect to the Internet!

#203: So just because she cheated him out of an amazing, don't get me wrong, education, he should financially rape his own mother and then leave her in some shithole retirement home to die? Toooootally seems fair...

Fucken ay. Good on you. Fully behind you on this. You'll have a happier life without a controlling wench.

Hard work.

Pimp slap sat hoe

Normally I fight for respecting your parents, but GOD DAMN! I mean, I've heard of parents doing this before, but that was because they couldn't afford the tuition (still a terrible parental choice) but this is 10x worse. I am so sorry. Use it as inspiration to never treat your own kids like that.

#151 I seriously hope you are just being sarcastic! Otherwise you are just an annoying born yesterday kiddo

She might be a bitch, but she's not a TOTAL fail as a parent. I mean, she did raise someone good enough to go to Yale and that's better than most people could say. Still unforgivable what she did though.

amen. right on the money!

AMEN!

Right on!

Damn. Nuns would have a hard time forgiving your mother. Glad you're sane & healthy & she's not. Just remember that she has to live with herself, and you don't have to be around her.

Yes, yes he should. In reply to #237

Sounds like something my mother would do... She keeps bringing up the fact that I'm at a university and she didn't because she was raising me and my brother. Sorry about that, man.

I get the reasoning behind why you are mad, but if your kids are having a positive relationship with their grandma, why take that way from them?

my girlfriend knows your pain too well. in high school she was accepted into a program traveling across Europe but her mother did something similar and she didn't find out about it till years later.

I agree! Keep on swimming. I'm sure you turned out well.

That bitch deserves to be isolated.

I agree with almost everything you said but BS. I was 16 in 1996 we didn't grow up without the internet. The WWW came on the scene in 1991 many of us were on the internet it just wasn't considered cool yet.

There is no damn way you deserve this whatsoever.

I was born in 2001 but my parents are old school and we live a small town where we still appreciate and older way of life and I like it better than what I've heard about big city schools (we still have modern Internet and social networking but we aren't totally reliant in it)

Some people are just douche bags. No one deserves that! I think OPs mom found out she posted this FML, and the mom created an account with her friends and they all voted YDI. At least, I'd like to think that, but I could be giving ass holes credit they don't deserve.

I honestly think there are people out there who just YDI every post.

You know, people do sometimes accidentally tap the button on the app. I know I have a few times.

That's what I was thinking too...

i'm not so sure an offer from 1996 would still be on the table.

OP probably already went to college somewhere else. Besides, Yale is way more selective these days and they aren't likely to hold a spot.

Yeah, I misread the years as months. I don't think that offer still stands. But hey, why not try? XD

That's a little extreme.