Also consider that moms understand the kinds of trouble girls get into, but less so the kinds that boys do. Hell, my mom threatened me (menaced me even) with dire consequences if I didn't use condoms in high school. Haha, it's pretty funny looking back on that actually, since she yelled, "No girls in the house!" and then amended it to "You better use condoms!" Anyway, people get scared of what they don't understand and you already know that. It's a bummer that you can't do a bunch of shit at the moment and hell, you may have to assert yourself just to make sure that your parents get an accurate picture of who you are/who you are becoming. Anyway, i saw elsewhere that you're a senior, even though you're young. You'll be out and about soon enough. Don't be ashamed of where you come from either. I'm Filipino, but I still grew up in New England. I can be as surly as the best of them but fuck, that's my culture.