FEAR OF FAILING IN MOM’S EYES
Larissa Vasquez, 28, has also kept secrets from her Dominican mother to protect her image, though her secret has less to do with sneaking out and more to do with academics. “When I first went to college, the first semester was really hard for me,” Larissa recalls. Always a straight A student, Larissa was now getting C’s for the first time, and she didn’t know how to break it to her mother. “She would call every day and ask how I was doing,” Larissa said. Larissa, however, kept her academic struggles hidden. “She was so proud of me. I didn’t want to disappoint her. I always wanted her to see me in a certain way,” she says.
