I wanted to give an update on this topic, even if its one year later. I am still living at home, studying, still playing games. Ofc I am respecting my moms rules, trying to please her as much as I can. I cannot get a job with the amount of work i have with my studies (game designer school). I do get money from the gouverment as support since my father passed away in 2011, and my mom has been taking that money as payment ever since, so you could take it as me paying her for living at home, since the money is ment for me and not her. My mom still restricts my play time, even when I help out as much as I can at home, and she still sees games as an issue. Ive learned to try to deal with her constant judgement of me enjoying games, but I will try to deal with it until i am financially stable enough to move out. Thats my update and thank you everyone for your posts, even if some of them i would consider very harsh.

@Jacanuk: like I said, I live in another country, and the school system is a bit different from the US. I'm in my last year that is considered being like high school. And getting an appartement in Geneva is VERY expensive since mostly rich people live here.

@demi0227_basic: my problem is not that she won't let me play, it's that she thinks I'm going to get addicted to it because she sees video games as a bad thing, and I just want to try to make her understand that it's not. And I'm not a grown "man", I'm female.

@demi0227_basic: problem is that I don't know where you live, but I live in a country where it's very difficult for a student to get a job and to find a place to live. I live in Switzerland, Geneva where everything is expensive. Trust me, if I could move out, I would. I don't expect you to fully understand my situation, my biggest complain is that my mother treats me like I'm 13. I am very aware that I'm living with my parent at 19, and I'm not happy about it. I do everything that I can at the moment to help at home and have good grades. I'm simply tired of my mom complaining and demonising a hobby that I have. I'm sorry if i offended you in anyway. You seem angry.

@drrollinstein: hahahaha good idea!

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, I think that when I'm able to, I'll move out but until then, I'll try to prove that it's not an addiction. It's true that she's always reading articles on internet telling her that it's mostly bad and that you use it to flee from the "real world". I do housework quite often so I don't think that it's one of the issues. I'll try showing her that it's not worse than reading or watching television. Thank you for all for your advice !!!

My mom is nedlessly worrying about me playing video games. I'm 19 and still going to school and I don't have any problems with my grades or school work. I don't have any problems socializing at school and I have about 2 or 3 good friends. I usually spend my weekends doing homework and on rare cases go out to hang out with my friends since we live quite far from each other. I play video games after school and on weekends. I usually play on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursday and the weekend, and I play about 3-4 hours those days and maybe sometimes 5 weekends. My mom is calling me an addicts and tells me that 2 hours of video games is too much. I dont know how to convince her that 2 or 3 hours of video games is not that much.