“At this point, school’s not my main priority. I’m trying to make money. So I’m working, but nobody in my family is really supportive of it, and they’re extremely all like, ‘Oh, you have to go to school, you have to be successful.’

"They try to compare me to my aunt, who in reality, is really good at school but she’s been smoking for years now just to cope with the fact that it’s like the pressure that they put on her to be the perfect example.

"And they always pair me up, 'You’re not like that. Why don’t you be like her?' And I’m like, 'Do you know what she does? Do you want me to be like that?' So it becomes a thing like them telling me you really need to put yourself in a better position in school and all that. And it’s me trying to separate from their ideals and trying to show them that, yeah, I’m not going to be like her ever, but I’m going to be successful in my own way.

"But they’re not supportive of that. So I lean on more of my friends and my boyfriend.”

Andrea