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Input: A little bit of information before we go: I live in a house with three younger brothers, the only female. I do have a bit of anger issues and the changes in my medication can make it worse. I also have depression. They’re not at all an excuse for my behaviour, I just want to provide a little bit of what it’s like to be me.

The brother I’m referring to is 14, and is, what I believe, capable of acting like a somewhat mature person. However he likes to go out of his way to bother me. He just got over the three-year long phase of twerking with his butt a mere few feet from my face, and mooning me. Every time he did it I got mad at him. Every time I got mad, which is in my opinion a normal reaction, my parents would get mad at me and he would walk away laughing to prepare for the next opportunity.

This behaviour would often happen at the worst times, his favourite was when I would be swamped with schoolwork. (Why didn’t you lock yourself in your bedroom? There was no internet there so I had to be close to the router to do my research.) I tried talking to my dad and my mom about it, but I would end up hearing about “my problems” for an hour. That wasn’t good for my mental health, so eventually I gave up.

He’s a bit over the previously mentioned behaviour now because he was recently handed a new tablet. Samsung. He enjoys playing annoying songs at full volume and despite how annoying my parents find it, they have yet to do anything.

I’m now sleep deprived from coming out of exams and now I have to endure my brother playing loud music in the room next to mine. He also thumps around at 2am and pitches a fit when my parents tell him to turn the device off.

That brings us to today, me sitting in my room working on my hobby novel in silence when I hear him move downstairs and start watching a fortnite stream at full volume. I decided to grab some food while I went to the kitchen to tell him to turn it down. He looks at me and says no when I ask him to lower the volume. So I grab a pair of brand new headphones and give them to him, a solution to the problem. He turns those away too. So I ask him why he can’t simply cooperate and he tells me to screw off.

I call my dad, and tell him what’s going on. He tells me to leave my brother alone. I felt angry and alone, so when I hung up, I grabbed the headphones and hit him across the head with them.

Am I an asshole for putting up with his behaviour for so long?



getting mad at my brother when he does dumb stuff and my parents turn a blind eye