#why is my family LIKE THIS

[heresiae]

So, it happened, Mother and Sister finally broke me and I don't want to be involved in any way anymore in their fucking war (not sure if it's a was when only one of them has declared it, but anyway...)

And yes, I am still deeply upset that Mother abused psychologically Sister since she was 7 (we have 6 years of difference and I stopped living regularly at home since I was 14, I was not there to witnessed it) and Mother often manipulated me in reinforcing the abuse with me none the wiser (Sister told me everything only a few years ago), but the point is, I still love my mother and she's the only parent I have left.

I love my sister, nobody is more important in my life than my sister, I would kill and die for her, but she's over 30 now, refusing therapy or direct confront with Mother and I'm tired to be in the middle.

To say it in Italian, Hanno rotto il cazzo (literally, "They broke my dick", English is not very good for this kind of phrases... you're missing out, you know? Translated would be, "I'm sick of their bullshit").

So, Mother wants to drop down unannounced to Sister because she's refusing to answer her calls and also ripped her a new one a couple of weeks ago when Mother was pushing me again? Good, but she will not stay with me and I will not keep her plan a secret.

Sister is angry at Mother for various reasons? I will not coddle her anymore. She either confronts mother or her feelings with therapy but that's enough.

I'm tired. I exhausted by years and years of two neurodivergency never diagnosed or even considered. I'm about to be 40. The future is bleak (especially the environment). I'm single, so I'll probably end up alone if I don't get the energies to go back on the dating scene. I'm not able to keep my house anymore or the discipline to exercise at least once a week.

They either sort their shit out or they don't. I don't care. I'm done.

[unrepentantcheeseaddict]

My major list of why is my family Like This.

My grandfather:

Dived off a moving boat to catch the motor that had fallen off, while said motor was running.

Gave a walrus penis bone he found in Alaska and a stolen artichoke plant to his bestie as a wedding gift.

My Mom:

Played Frisbee with recently dead flounders as a child, also in Alaska.

Introduced me in person to her ex she almost married before I was born, because he happens to cashier at our local TTRPG store.

Has blasted Irish drinking songs to get me out of bed every morning since I was five.

And then there's Me:

Convinced every single one of my kindergarten classmates to run off and hide from our teacher for like an hour.

Licked banana slugs routinely as a tween just to gross out my friends.

Refused to watch/read any kind of superhero media for my entire childhood because it was apparently too mainstream.

Was legitimately convinced I was a faery changeling for most of the year I was 16.

[xchubbyxxbunnyx]

Childhood trauma has me all kinds of fucked up. How the hell did I end up with mommy AND daddy issues??? 🥴🫠

[theweirdspacejellyfish]

Let me share one of my many memories with u young guppies. Long ago when I was a young ephyra. I have always been into bl and my family has no idea what it is and why I must be in it so one Christmas my dearest native mother went to hot topic AND ASKED IN FRONT OF EVERYONE IF THEY HAD YAOI! ( she herself told me adout this with no shame at all) the cashiers of h CJ purse kinda of laughed at her and asked if she knew what that was and she again with no shame at all said “ yes it’s for my daughter now do you have it” she got my yuri on ice!!! And couldn’t find out how it was gay then look at Victor and said” he looks very gay”🤦‍♀️ lords help me

[againstthegrainphoto]

……when you plan to go to a kraken game with your family………..

😵‍💫

[cyberphuck]

Me: Hey Nick Nick: Hey Jaydee. Me: How's it goin'? Nick: Same old. You get that computer set up yet? We should game. Me: Nah, not yet, I gotta drag the desk out, and I got the Rona so I've been sick. Nick: Bummer. Pretty soon though, eh? Oh also me and my partner of nearly twenty years got married the other day. Have you ever played Baldur's Gate? Me: WHAT?? Nick: Baldur's Gate. On the PC?

[shipsgaysfordays]

gotta love thanksgiving (finding out my dad is a bitcoin dude and is “neutral”—upon further conversation it’s obvious he sides with israel—on the genocide going on)

but my parents are divorced so i’ll have thanksgiving pt. 2 tomorrow

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[aldercaps]

its now time for my least favourite part of the holiday season: braving the Grandparents

bonus: they’re coming to my dads house but theyre not even my dads parents (both died ages ago) theyre his EX WIFES PARENTS and my granddads wife who has hated my mums family for like 50 years. why is my dad like this

[kuronekoartsblog]

I offer you: Tim Drake being absolutely demolished in a way or another for being good at videogames, both by his opponent and his own teammate

Recently this is the only thing capable of pumping some dopamine in my ADHD brain so this is what u get lol

More to come!

[killer-rabbit-of-caerbannog]

[ashthenerd]

My mam just found my dad eating her menopause jellies. Again. He knows that they are for menopause, but he just likes eating them

[theweirdspacejellyfish]

So there’s like 2 main curses in my family one is the Frankenstein curse as I like to call it and basically goes back to my grandmother then my dad then me and only affects one person at a time. Because what it does is that you just get hurt all the fucking time like my grandmother joked that she was the million dollar woman cause of all the surgeries. My father lost vision in one eye, had a bullet in his back, had one of his finger cut off cause of a machine etc. BUT in the Frankenstein curse the person also has a very big pain tolerance. My dad and his finger? He tried to drive his self to the doctor not from shock but because he didn’t want to pay an ambulance. My grandmother? Did everything that the doctors told her not to and lived happily and also past want she should have. But now that they have passed I have the Frankenstein curse and almost have scars everywhere from random ass stuff but still gets back up. I have brunt my self so many times but still do it. Have gotten a rock thrown from a lawnmower to the leg, cut myself with a can cause I wanted peaches really bad and couldn’t wait, lost vision twice in one eye, etc. the Frankenstein curse is real and is coming after me

[acutenobody]

Not sure how we got into this, but my aunt was saying that people nowadays have so many "dumb labels" and that it's "getting ridiculous." She asked me if I knew any of the terms cis (I'm pretty sure I'm nb), pan (I'm bi) aromantic (I'm asexual) and boypussy.

And I was just looking at her and trying not to laugh, saying in the most composed way I could that yeah, I know all of these terms 😂

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[apollos-boyfriend]

so my younger cousin is flying in to visit from brazil on sunday, and will be staying here for like, the entirety of july. which, don't get me wrong, is super cool! i love the kid! but it felt like a super weird move, considering his parents are the SUPER strict and borderline helicopter parents. even the smallest prank/roughousing with him/his little sister would lead to a strict talking to from his parents, he couldn't ever do anything without their clear permission, that sort of stuff. so letting him fly at alone at 16 to a whole different country and stay there for a whole month seemed WILDLY out of character. additionally, it just felt like a super last-minute trip. it's not like we have any plans to do when he gets here, and the flight itself and stuff only got booked like, midway through june.

and i was talking to my mom about it, kind of trying to nudge some answers out of her, and after a while she went, "yeah, i think they're sending him over here to get away for his boyfriend. see if the distance breaks them off." which, first of all, surprised me because last i checked, they didn't KNOW he had a boyfriend. literally everyone in the family did EXCEPT for them because while that entire side of the family being semi-conservative, his parents (mostly his dad) are EXTREMELY old-fashioned. so clearly something already went wrong. and considering the only reason the rest of the family knew is because one person found out and it spread like wildfire, i have a sneaking suspicion he wasn't the one to tell them, either.

and second of all. they're sending him HERE. to try to make him forget his homosexuality. i couldn't do anything but just wordlessly gesture to the multiple pride flags scattered around my room, then to myself, because really? he has like two other cousins in the us and they're sending him to me? honey i am about to introduce this kid to queer scenes you have never even heard of. he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive