Struggling with Unsupportive Parents

I don’t want to sound arrogant, but my parents are unsupportive and lack basic education. They are more invested in other people’s lives than in mine. For example, whenever I talk about wanting to go abroad and build a better future, they laugh it off. But when some random neighbor’s kid is getting married, they can’t stop obsessing over it 24/7.

Now that I’m older and more focused on academics, I’ve realized they don’t motivate me at all. I have an important exam coming up, and I need to concentrate, but my parents are pressuring me to attend a neighbor’s wedding. When I told them I couldn’t go because of my studies, they called me "abnormal" for prioritizing my future over a wedding.

I feel frustrated and isolated and angry. I don't deserve them.

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Dunnig Kruger

What exam is this?
It doesn't sound like an A level, at this time of year?
Is it some professional exam?
Wedding or exam? It depends what the exam is?

The development of your social skills is important when it comes to how good an adult life you will have.
Social events like weddings are great places to practise your social skills.

Someone with great social skills, with no qualifications with drive and ambition, will have a better life than someone with great academic achievements with poor social skills with drive and ambition.

It sounds like your parents take you very much for granted. Some people are like that as parents.
Their lack of support can be used by you to motivate yourself. By you taking an "I'll show them" attitude. And in you taking pride in being a self starter and a self motivator.

Your ambition to go abroad is a great one. Especially if you can speak the language of your desired destination.
Do it!
And do it for yourself. You deserve to have a great life.

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