HELP!! !

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My parents don't think I don't want to continue with college, though to be perfectly honest I don't know what I want anymore. I really do want to go through college and succeed in a career, but my parents don't believe me when I say I do. They think I'm doing poorly for someone of my intelligence, that I don't care anymore. But I have an excellent GPA score according to some people: 2.57! Honestly, I don't even know if I DO care because they tell me that I don't care. I want to tell them to back off, but the last time I did that, I let myself get carried away with Facebook and Youtube. I'm starting to feel like the black sheep of the family because everyone else is doing well but me. My older sister is moving to Maryland, my younger brother is more responsible than I am when it comes to homework, and my younger sister is going to be in the 9th grade starting in September. I don't know what's wrong with me here. Is it me? Or is it all the pressure my parents are applying? Please help me out here.

What do you mean by "carried away" by FB and YouTube? Are you sitting down in front of your computer and five hours or more go by? If it's like that, maybe you need to set limits for yourself. Put a timer on your phone and only let yourself be on the computer for two hours a night. That's reasonable, right?

A GPA in the 2s is kinda low. It's not emergency level bad, but it would concern me too. I'd try to get it back up in the 3s. Do you think you can get an A in something and then some Bs in some other things?

Is it possible for you to join a study group in whatever you're doing the worst in? I was in a study group for statistics and it really, really helped. You can speak plainly when it's just you and other students, and there are always other people who are having the exact same problem you are.

As to your parents, I think if you figure out a plan for yourself and then you lay out this plan to them, they'll be behind you.