I [14M] am having issues with my divorced parents [33F/38M] and people in general.

Things are especially hard in life when you're 14, or a teenager in general, especially when you feel like you're lacking in appropriate mental/emotional connection to your parents. That's ok though, your life will improve as long as you give it a chance to.

man most people who have ever lived on planet earth didn't have access to the internet or 'reading about things that are of interest to them' to such a degree that our generations do. just do your best not to get into trouble while you're young. It's fine to be an anime watching shut-in as a teenager --- it beats being a gangbanger or crimnial.

as for apathy, it's hard to not be apathetic when you're a teenager because you are forced into doing pointless things that you have no choice in every day (like going to school, which is only useful in teaching the very basic things you need to survive in them modern world, like writing/reading/basic math/basic science). You have no choice in it at that age and you're basically just surviving from day to day doing a bunch of things that you didn't choose. It's normal but as your life moves forward (which it will, when I was 14 I couldn't imagine being 20 or 24, but I got there, so did everyone else reading this thread) you'll be able to do your own thing more.

If you complete high school you'll be able to go to college somewhere, and either in college or at work you will inevitably and naturally make friends / girlfriends / etc. and your experience of life will change for the better. Your mind will change for the better. Your relationships will probably improve as you age too, because both you and your parents are aging and maturing and your experience of sharing your lives might deepen. At 14 you are basically in a phase of life that's like a cocoon - you are stuck in the cocoon - and it will change as your age increases.

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