19 People Know the Struggle of Growing Up with Asian Parents

by Irvi Torremoro

17.

Grew up with my mom always pushing skin lightening soaps and ointments on me since all the actresses in the Philippines are light-skinned and that’s what’s considered beautiful. It only took me 20+ f*cking years to be comfortable in my own skin since she always made me feel ugly.

18.

My mom didn’t let me go to any frend’s sleepovers until I was a Junior in high school. And it was across the street. AND I had to be back at the house at 7AM when she was leaving for work.

19.

During my brother’s Sophomore year of high school, his first girlfriend is a black girl… Well, that didn’t go well with my strict Asian parents and we had to have countless family meetings about it. I was up in arms about it and defending my brother the whole time. They made him so uncomfortable and it was such a sh*tshow. The girl ended up breaking up with him for it.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.