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My Parents Say I Am Ruining My Autistic Brother’s Life By Choosing To Move Out
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My Parents Say I Am Ruining My Autistic Brother’s Life By Choosing To Move Out

I (19M) have an autistic brother (20M). He’s fairly manipulative because he realized pretty quickly that the threat of a meltdown would get him his way every single time. He is considered high functioning by medical personnel, but he’s got my parents convinced he just doesn’t understand what he’s doing, and they don’t ever punish him. Doctors have told them that he understands and that he know...

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AITA Parents bought younger sister with serious issues a 25k car for Christmas while all I got was a phone case, been needing a car for a couple years, parents promised one, but gave her one instead
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AITA Parents bought younger sister with serious issues a 25k car for Christmas while all I got was a phone case, been needing a car for a couple years, parents promised one, but gave her one instead

In my family there are 2 kids (sister and I) and my parents. Christmas was coming up and I’ve been wanting a car for about a year now because I’ve recently gotten my Green P’s (Australian thing that you can get when you’re older than 18). My parents have mentioned in the past the idea of me paying for half and they’ll cover the other half of a car under total 10k AUD. I can afford this as I’ve...

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AITA for calling my boyfriend a hypocrite when he told me to stop spending so much time on my crotcheting?
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AITA for calling my boyfriend a hypocrite when he told me to stop spending so much time on my crotcheting?

I work full-time, and when I'm not working I make sure to clean up our house, make some dinner, ensure the dog has had a walk...just general household upkeep- before I sit down on the sofa and crochet. When my boyfriend came up to me today and said that he's unhappy with how much time I spend crocheting, I'm not going to lie, I laughed a bit, and basically said, you spend more time playing gam...

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AITA for buying my neice a car and not my nephew?
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AITA for buying my neice a car and not my nephew?

So I (50M) have a neice and a nephew who are both 18 and just graduated. A few years ago when they were entering HS I made a deal with them, if they kept a B average their entire time in high school I would buy them any car of their choosing, within reason of course. We added a clause that they got 1 semester forgiven, so they were able to mess up one semester and I wouldn't hold it against th...

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AITA for bluntly telling a woman it’s dangerous to put essential oils in sensitive areas?
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AITA for bluntly telling a woman it’s dangerous to put essential oils in sensitive areas?

My uncle’s new girlfriend came to family dinner the other night and it was the first time anyone in my family met her. She is super into essential oils which is very eyeroll inducing for me but I didn’t say anything about it or show that I found it annoying at first. I bit my tongue while she went on about putting them in her water (you should not be ingesting essential oils) and rubbing them ...

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AITA For walking out on a double date my friend set up with him, his girlfriend and a girl I had already rejected before
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AITA For walking out on a double date my friend set up with him, his girlfriend and a girl I had already rejected before

I feel like I need to say this for this post not to be removed, this is not about the date, about relationships or som**hing I want a judgement on me walking out of there. Cast: Me (25M), Joe(26M), Jane(24F) To give you a little background to this situation, I met Jane through Joe's girlfriend at her birthday party last year. At first Jane was fun to talk to but not even an hour later Jane w...

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AITA for recording my uncle's drink request?
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AITA for recording my uncle's drink request?

My uncle thinks it's funny to get me to run back and forth between the pool and the kitchen getting him drinks. He will say he wants a Coke then claim he asked for a beer, then asked where his Coke is. He usually blames it on us d**n millenials always being on our phones and not paying attention. For whatever reason my parents don't tell him to p**s off. It started getting old a long time a...

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AITA for asking my friend to stop the way she shows off her “before” shots when she’s refashioning my clothes?
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AITA for asking my friend to stop the way she shows off her “before” shots when she’s refashioning my clothes?

I am a plus sized gal who is really into fashion. I usually donate my clothes unless I can resell them. My friend Katie is really into “refashioning” clothes from thrift stores. She buys plus sized clothes and then alters them into her size with a lot of other changes, like making them into crop tops or mini skirts or things. It’s a really popular creative thing to do. Well she asked me if ...

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AITA for telling my family if they don’t like the way som**hing is, they can take care of it themselves?
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AITA for telling my family if they don’t like the way som**hing is, they can take care of it themselves?

I am married and have 3 kids, all are teens. My husband and I both work and my kids are in school and do sports or clubs after school. I recently hit a ceiling in my field and in order to continue to grow professionally, I had to get a graduate degree, so I started my masters degree. In the past, I usually did most of the ch**es. My husband does the typical “man” ch**es” my kids have some of th...

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Update: AITA for refusing to cook after my BF tried to “critique” my cooking with a literal PowerPoint presentation?
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Update: AITA for refusing to cook after my BF tried to “critique” my cooking with a literal PowerPoint presentation?

After reading your comments and taking some time to process what happened, I decided that our relationship needed a serious talk. I sat him down to discuss how his presentation came across as not just unfunny, but pretty disrespectful. Well, what does he do? He smirks and goes, “Oh, I was prepared for this!” He actually grabs his laptop, connects it to the TV again, and presents me with anothe...

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AITA for telling my old bully that she's clearly only apologising to make herself feel better?
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AITA for telling my old bully that she's clearly only apologising to make herself feel better?

I (27M) was bullied really badly by this one girl (27F) for many years, right up until I left high school. I've since moved on and forgot about many of those things. So it came as a surprise when I saw her again when I went out shopping. I wasn't even in my hometown so it really was a coincidence. Well she recognized me and I tried to pretend I didn't notice her, but she called my name. So ...

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AITA for letting my daughter buy her own bras and not checking?
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AITA for letting my daughter buy her own bras and not checking?

I (32M) have shared custody of my 13 yo daughter. Earlier this week we went to the mall since she’s been asking me to go and I was happy with how she’s been doing in school. Midway through after we hit a few stores she asked me to go into Victorias secret, I asked what she wanted (thinking som**hing like perfume) and she said she wanted bras that fit better, not my area of expertise so I asked one...

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