#aita

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for accidentally maybe kind of causing the end of the world?

So to start off, me (12F) and my brother (12F) have been spending the summer in Oregon, and other than a ton of depressing failed romances, it's been great!!! :D So great, that I almost didn't want it to end :(

I found out high school is nothing to look forward to and neither of my friends are going to be able to come to my birthday party or say goodbye to me at the end of the summer and to top it all off, my brother took an apprenticeship offer with a guy we've really only known a few weeks and... he's not coming home with me. He was really all I had

I wanted to hide in my sweater forever, until this time traveler guy who we'd helped in the past (and technically the future) offered me a way to make sure the summer didn't have to end, and I could stay in this town with my brother and great uncle and best friends forever, and we'd never have to grow up!!! So since I had my brother's backpack, I dug through and found this weird cosmic snowglobe looking thing and gave it to the time traveler guy, since he said he needed it.

Except he turned out to be the evil nacho chip and may or may not have started the apocalypse— I'm writing from inside my bubble where everything is great, but I kind of wonder if it was really worth it. I didn't mean to cause this- but if everyone I care about can stay here with me, is it really so bad?

[aita-mcyt]

AITA for playing minecraft differently? (HC: S10)

So according to my friends I (M29) play minecraft ‘very weird’, but it’s not that weird! It’s quite simple really, I just press one key with a different finger. For some reason, this is ludicrous to them! It’s only one different change from the ‘norm’. Some of them have completely different keybinds or have an inverted mouse. And yet I’m more strange?

So many have found it strange that I tried to fix it. Yet, I simply can’t! It would be ideal if I could, but even stretching my fingers they still think is weird. It’s just absolutely maddening! Is it really that strange to press shift with a different finger?

[fox-bright]

I am never going to be able to leave Reddit.

[theshehulkproject]

Some D&D party is out there playing the coolest campaign ever.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Okay. Am I the asshole if I call out my roommate's self-centered behavior? I live in a communal space, where everybody except C shares freely. C got a good job through connections and is able to spend freely on themselves, spending little on household items, groceries, etc. They say they're broke every month, but I've seen their takeout containers and amazon boxes, so maybe it's a spending problem. Worst of all, when we are low on food, C just disappears for a few hours and comes back instead of cooking with everyone.

I've told C that they're being selfish and they should start considering other people, but it goes in one ear and out the other. I offered to help budget but they don't listen! They barely spend more than $400 of their $2000 a month on groceries for the house; the rest goes to their lavish lifestyle while the rest of us suffer. I just want them to pay their fair share. AITA for asking them to be fair??

Including some more specific INFO from version 1 of this post (which wasn't postable due to being about emotions rather than actions):

What are these acronyms?

[wileycap]

AITA for striking my (M43) son (M20) when he rejected me as his father?

I understand that the title might have you thinking the worst, but please hear me out.

I didn't have a relationship with my son for basically all his life. This was due to my circumstances at the time: I went through a major personal tragedy and was severely injured, to the point of being on life support. To this day I have a lot of issues with my health.

I recently reconnected with my son. I immediately invited him to meet my boss (M92), in hopes that I could set him up with a job opportunity. I feel that this is significant. As far as I know, my son has been working in menial jobs in agriculture, but then apparently chose to leave that life and - to my shock - join a criminal syndicate.

I felt as if getting a good government job would be a way to turn over a new leaf in his life, especially given his past. However, he immediately became combative. I attempted to give him some guidance in managing his emotions, but he rejected that as well.

I'm sad to say that the argument became physical. Some blows were exchanged, but in the end, I was angry enough to strike him. I immediately felt very bad, and decided to offer him the government job on the spot. He rejected me again, and chose to leave very abruptly. I haven't had any contact with him since.

So, AITA?

Edit: Yes, I admit that to call it striking him was an understatement. To clarify, I cut off his hand.

Edit: However, I feel like it should be stated that I myself am a quadruple amputee and we have excellent healthcare.

Edit: I did not immediately identify myself as his father when we met. I think this was my mistake. I think he would have been much more receptive of my message had I done so. As it stands I only told him of our relationship after I had struck him.

Edit: My wife is not in the picture. To my knowledge she passed before his birth.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went on a double date with my sister (Jamie, 24) and her new boyfriend. (Paul 25ish) We went to an Italian place. Paul goes on about how the word is for red in Italian marinara, and the word for white is alfredo, so that’s how he remembers the sauce names. I told Paul I took Italian in high school, and it’s rosso and bianco. It even says so on the wine menu. Paul started yelling at me and calling me wrong. Those are the names for wines, not colors. My husband showed him on Google the translation for red and white. Paul told my sister he was leaving and called us stupid assholes and how wrong we were. Paul and my sister left without paying their bill, or even getting some food. When we asked the server he said the drinks are no problem and not to worry about it. My sister texted me later and said why do I think I always have to be right and I embarrassed Paul, and it was immature of my husband. She said we didn’t have to argue with him over something so silly. She said my husband, and I bullied him. She told me that I don’t have to say to people when they are wrong and embarrass them in public like that.

World heritage AITA (Am I The Asshole?) post.

[animentality]

[coochiequeens]

A reddit update with a happy ending for women!

[amazingphil]

RELATIONSHIP AITA DILEMMAS!

HELLO

I did an ‘am I the hole’ video about Christmas dilemmas, and you guys told me in the comments that you wanted MORE - so I’m doing a LOVE/DATING SPECIAL!

It has to be a situation where you may or may not have been an asshole, rather than just general advice, and the more love / relationship themed the better.

Example - Am I the hole for destroying my husbands sandcastle that took him 10 hours?

Am I the AHole for ghosting someone when I found out they collected frogs?

Leave me a message and I may pass judgement on you in a video. I’ll keep you anonymous! Can be spicy as much as youtube will allow me to post!

Ask here: AM I THE ASSHOLE? ❤️

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for staging my own kidnapping?

I (15F) am a stage magician who is also an assistant for a lawyer (A, 22M). Recently, in one of his trials, we sort of hit a dead end. In order to buy some time for him, I staged my own kidnapping, which forced the judge to call a 20-minute recess. The prosecutor seemed unamused and when A got into the defendant's lobby, he was crying. I explained that the kidnapping was staged (utilizing one of my signature magic tricks), and he threatened to press charges (I don't know what charges he would've been pressing). I think the prosecutor’s on to me, and I feel kinda bad about making A cry like that, but I didn't know how else to buy time for him.

AITA?

[ishipmyotp]

Context X

[justsome-di]

what is going on in r/amitheasshole is this man okay

[teathattast]

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for lying to my dog about food being 'spicy?'

A while back I taught my dog what spicy foods are (by letting her sniff them and saying "Uh oh! Spicy!") and she figured out that it means it'll smell/taste bad and she immediately loses interest. It was initially an accident but it became really handy in getting her to leave food alone if it might hurt her.

Recently though I've started saying "Uh oh! Spicy!" about any food I don't want her to eat. If she's sitting and staring at me eating a regular non-spicy snack and I don't want to share, I'll tell her it's spicy so she'll stop begging for it. She believes me 100% of the time. She does have a 'leave it' command that she obeys as well, but she always acts so sad whenever I tell her to 'leave it' and it's something she wants.

I feel a little bad because she's an older dog (10y/o) and maybe I SHOULD be sharing my snacks with her, but sometimes a man's gotta enjoy his food in peace without a little creature gazing longingly at him the entire time and crying like the world's soggiest beast.

Included is a picture of her making her very best begging face so that everyone can accurately judge how evil I am for lying to her.

What are these acronyms?

[charlesoberonn]

AITA for breaking out of an eternal cycle of death and rebirth?

My (28M) inner Atman (155trillionNB) recently escaped the cycle of Samsara by quenching all earthly desires and achieving Nirvana. But I kinda feel bad for abandoning all of the trillions of souls still suffering on Earth.

Should I become a bodhisattva and guide others on the path to enlightenment or is it okay if I rejoin the Brahman right now?