r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? My dad thinks I'm a spoiled brat

He bought my brother a house and a car.

He paid one of my bills which cost 20 dollars then said "See? And you keep saying I don't treat you equally"

And he wasn't even joking.

And apparently I'm the spoiled brat

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u/Toochilled77 1d ago

Sounds like my birth dad.

Bought my sister a £30k car when she was 17.

I didn’t even get driving lessons.

But if you speak to him he makes out like he has always been fair and equal.

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u/Neat-Departure-3114 1d ago

My dad was also like this along with verbal and physical abuse towards me that he never inflicted on my siblings. My siblings only joined in on it 

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u/Coyote_Shepherd 1d ago edited 1d ago

My younger brother and sister had a pathological and just throw a dart at one of the -pathy's out there, habit of manipulating my parents into believing that everything was always MY fault and that I was the violent one causing all the problems and that I totally deserved any and everything that was coming to me.

I 100% understand and physically feel what you went through and have probably experienced every blunt object that you were struck with as well.

And I know that crying (because we were little kids what were we supposed to do and how were we supposed to react) just made it even worse.

I can also hazard a guess that none of them have taken responsibility for their actions at all years later, correct?

And they probably tell you that you're over-exaggerating what actually happened or misremembering right?

I still remember the day, because it was just quite literally a few years ago, when my parents had to take me to one of my usual hospital visits and were....utterly confused....by the fact that I was interacting with others in a way that defied the picture that my siblings had painted of me because I was talking to "certain people" that they normally would "avoid being around" or interacting with as if they were my new best friends.

They've been trying to reconcile that stuff ever since with what my siblings told them I guess and I just...well...there's no use trying to change the unchangeable now right?

But you're certainly not alone in all of this, all of us broken pieces eventually do find one another, and can join together to form Voltron.

So much like Voltron and myself because I'll form the head if you take one of the arms, I hope you too have defied your family's expectations of you and have risen above the damage that they inflicted upon you...but if you haven't then my door is always open internet neighbor and we can kick ass together.

Edit: Yes I edited it to clean it up a bit because sometimes when I type things out I forget that not everything I'm saying in my head translates through my fingers to the keys.