Hmmmmm... I took a look at those websites, your parents seem to be pretty established in programming and nerd-dom themselves (or at least they say they are). I can't understand why they wouldn't want you programming. Any ideas why?

No kidding

My parents are really easy on me, mainly because I'm the "good" son. One of my brothers is just plain crazy (literally, and not the funny kind ) and most of my childhood pain came from him. fortunately, my teenage years have remained fairly unaffected since he has either been in rehab (which was very unhelpful. Now he's smart and crazy, instead of stupid and crazy. Now I actually have some fears for the city of Logan) or now, living in another city

On calc stuff, my parents were mainly unhappy that I was causing others' grades to suffer shouldn't have taken that $5 to put games on that guy's calc. Now everybody begs me for them.

Are you the oldest child, Sir? it sounds like it, just because the more kids parents have, the more understanding they tend to be (except in certain cases, like where the older siblings were practically drug lords)

It's in here.  Look for a really long post.  I am the oldest child.

That sucks, although I laughed at Qazz's comment.

Wow, it almost sounds like where I'm headed. My parents want me to be as perfect as possible, anything they don't like about what I do, they forbid it. I've tried reasonable conversations too, but they never consider what I say, for the most part these conversations end up being shouting matches, most of them ending with them unable to give a reasonable response "We are your parents, you HAVE to do what we say. This is coming from the people that say "you always have a choice." What kind of Bullshit is that? Now when they say "would you like to...." or "Do you want to...." the only reply that their happy with is something along the lines of "your wish is my command." kind of thing, if I reply with the obvious truth "Don't bother asking because no matter what I say you'll go ahead and make me do whatever you want anyways." they get pissed and yell at me. I've been trying to find ways to cope with my home situation by finding things to do to take my mind off of it, but each time they seem to be purposely attempting to break down anyway I have of coping. Games:Banned, TV:Banned, Computer(for personal use):Banned, Free Will:Banned, i wouldn't be surprised if soon I am banned from playing tennis too. The one thing I've found that my parents can't affect, is one of my close friends who is currently planning on dropping out of the IB program and transferring to another school because of her grades. I know that she can do better, but when I tried to help motivate her, she just lashed back and told me I was a hypocrite because I never do my math homework. She has refused to talk to me again until January 29. Slowly all my methods of coping are being destroyed, and the new ones that I find are less and less effective. I've lost the reason that I had to do well, I've even forgotten that reason now.

Wow, that sucks SIr (I missed this thread), same for you Guy.  My parents have always been supportive of my ability to program stuff ("OMG, YOU CAN PROGRAM!")  My mom has only taken my calc away once or twice, once was when I was up at 12ish working on some project, and another was when I first got it I think.  I hope things get better for you SIr and Guy, good luck!

Thank you all for the support.  It isn't as bad now as it was when I wrote that post, though.  I'm just not allowed to use my TI-84+ for anything other than math, and my parents are a lot more watchful of me on the computer (which I spend much more time on than they want me to).  I'll buy my own 84+ soon, which they can't influence.  I also have a laptop I bought myself.

I graduate in May, and I plan on moving out.