Long story short I am self employed and I ve run into money problem. I recently had got behind on some bills and even got served a lawsuit by a creditor a couple months ago.

I’m 27 M I live by myself and take care of myself. My parents are aware of my financial troubles since I still use their house as my mailing address and they snoop through my mail without my permission.

I recently however just got back caught up with my bills and I’m starting to be able to save up some money again. I also stopped the lawsuit and got on a payment plan with the creditor.

Anyways in the process of getting caught up on bills I started donating plasma to get a little extra money here and there.

Today I’m out with my family and I telling them about the plasma donation process the only reason I brought it up was because I started noticing the plasma donation was lowering my blood pressure. Which is a good thing because normally my BP is like right at or below Hypertension levels but recently has been brought back into a healthy range.

Anyways a bunch of my family start jumping down my throat about it. Saying instead of donating plasma I could have just asked them for money. Especially my parents, LIKE WHO THE HELL GETD MAD AT SOMEBODY FOR NOT ASKING THEM FOR MONEY???. My dad even calls me afterwards and says I’m not the type of person who should be donating plasma. Implying people who donate plasma are either homeless and/or are bums of some sort. He clearly doesn’t know what he talking about as I see all types of people go to donate plasma. But the biggest part that upset me was has that he talked about as if it’s something I should be ashamed of. I don’t even like taking money from them because there have been times in the past they have thrown me taking their money back in my face, or they have tried to tell me how to spend my own money that I earned myself after giving me money.

My mom even says that when she worked as a nurse she met people who had damaged veins from donating plasma. I’m pretty certain this is a lie as I researched plasma donation thoroughly. And never saw any mention of a case like that. And I know how safe plasma donation is.

Anyways I told them they need to mind their own business and they sent me some money which I sent back. I told them I don’t need their help financially and I can take care of myself. And that if I wanted their help I would ask for it.

I don’t have a problem with them offering but trying to manipulate me with the shit they said. And trying to make me feel ashamed for donating when it actually helps save lives. And just overall not respecting my decisions when I tell them I don’t need or want they money and sending it anyways just incredibly infuriates me. It makes me feel like I can’t trust them, or tell them anything honestly. I was just trying to share some info about my experience and they completely tried to make me feel like shit about it just so I would do what they wanted me to do.