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r/AITA
AITA for not replying to my mother's messages?
I (17M) was born in the Iron Tower, but am not an obscurist. I should've been taken to an orphanage when I was 5 to grow up normally outside the Tower. However, my mother kept me at her side until I was 10.
She was never the overly warm or loving type, but she was kind and taught me well. But due to her position, she wasn't around a lot. I didn't really have any peers, since the other children were either obscurists or younger than 5.
When she couldn't justify keeping me around any longer (as mentioned, when I was 10), she finally put me in an orphanage, where I stood out again. Most children had been there longer and didn't know their parents.
Now, it wasn't bad or anything. I was taken care off and I think my mother made sure from afar that I got everything I needed. She even got me a place at Ptolemy House.
She reaches out to me from time to time, mostly to congratulate me on my achievements. But I don't feel like replying. I know I should probably be grateful for her help, but I can't help but feel abandoned by her and like it was pure selfishness on her part that got me into this position. Of course I know she couldn't have kept me around forever (nor would I have wanted that), but what was the benefit for me in keeping me there for an additional five years? All it did was make me have a relationship with her while keeping me from having actual peers.
AITA for not wanting to keep up the relationship?
UPDATE (1 year later): I had to message her to save my (now) boyfriend's life. Now I feel like I owe her, but I also got a boyfriend!