I'm 27, male, and I never told my mother that she did a bad job raising me.

No, it's the other way around. I was the one who fucked up. I was born with a severe mental handicap, and it was clear I would not amount to much in life. I had severe physical disabilities too, and when I was 10 years old I was deaf, completely non-verbal, completely incontinent, and couldn't walk or stand for more than a minute without being in unbearable agony. I also had waiting lists as long as my arm for various therapies, medical procedures, and a group home, so my mother took advantage of a relatively new program at the time where you could assign a certain amount of money set aside for these therapies and group homes to completely in-home care and made a list of all the therapies I needed and hired people to come to my house to provide them, and then she used the leftover money to pay off the house she was living in so that she could afford to quit her job and care and raise me herself. In doing so, she took herself out of the running to become a veterinarian, which was her childhood dream. I have never seen my mother so much as drink a beer, but at one point, she found out that marijuana helped with my spasms and she went out and broke the law by getting some for me. As I got older, I began to start resenting her for making me do therapy all the time, I think partly because I was made to do so much of it and partly because I was given no choices and no free will. She was completely controlling my entire life. <br><br>Well, all of that paid off in the end, and by sheer force of willpower, she got me to be where I am now. I'm going to school, I have a good paying job, I can walk and run without any problem, and I completely live on my own in my own house. I have a long distance boyfriend who treats me really well, and we've been together for over three years. I still have a lot of mental and emotional issues, but I'm just about as close to neurotypical as I'm ever going to get. I've tried to tell her that the only reason I'm so successful is all because of her, but she just denies it. I know she's just doing that because she's modest, but I don't care. I'm going to keep on thanking her because she fucking deserves it.