I tried hard to follow my supervisor’s guidance and instruction and respect her authority, but her approach led me to where I was unable to function or make progress... They blamed me for being slow in completing tasks.

If I asked a question, expect to be told to find my own answer. If that answer is wrong, be sent away to come up with another one. Spend months alone with the questionnaire, going over and over again....

In our last supervision session my request to discuss how we worked, my inability to make progress with their way of responding to my work in progress, the tears pouring down my face, were not mentioned.  Instead I was given a description of how they thought of me: ‘i'm struggling to write’, no politeness or support, they told I should think carefully to stop n come back again, I'm like Asian Student will only do what have been asked, not expecting me to be a dependent PhD student, which apparently ends in a statement I'm underperformance, not meeting their expectations, slow... Bla bla bla.. I'm not like other part-time students, they are far more better than me, coz they have done most of the tasks given...Maybe this is not a right time to study PhD... I was asked to finished unrealistic tasks within three months .... And if not, I'm inability to progress.

I'm not sure what should i do.. If I didn’t like their approach, or thought that they were the right supervisors...maybe I could go to a different faculty and find another or other supervisors who won’t mind I'm slow... This response showed neither an understanding of having a supervisor will help nor my own intention to complete in a timely manner...

I'm not sure what should i do...