It's bad enough when they say it to your face...

Just yesterday, while I was out of the room, one of my family members turned to the others and expressed concerns that I'm "obsessed" with my coins. They also underestimated how well I can hear and I came into the room and made no secret about hearing them.

Now, I've always thought to "obsession" as taking something to a clearly unhealthy level and I don't think I'm anywhere near that. I still work a part time job, I still bring home mid to high As on nearly all of my major assignments in classes, and I buy coins only with available money, never on credit. I may spend a lot of time hunting down, talking about, and looking at my coins but I'm not obsessed. I still know what my other obligations are and I have always met them.

I don't know how obvious it is, but I really resented this comment, especially since they didn't even make it to me. The rest of my family? They either accept that I could be doing many worse things, or *gasp* they actually approve of it! I don't understand why this 1 person continues to insist that there's something seriously wrong with what I'm doing.