AITA for snapping at my sister after my parents asked me to skip a Christmas gift this year so she could get special braces?
In a home shadowed by unequal love, a sixteen-year-old boy quietly sacrifices his joys for the sake of his younger sister.
Every invitation he declines, every preference he suppresses, is a silent plea for acceptance in a world where his needs are always second.
His parents’ favoritism, cloaked in the guise of protection and care, leaves him feeling invisible, a ghost in his own family. Amid the small but relentless betrayals, the boy’s heart grows heavy with unspoken resentment and loneliness.
Each missed birthday, each forsaken ride, chips away at his sense of worth, painting a painful portrait of a childhood where love is measured not by fairness, but by gender.
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The original poster (OP) has reached a breaking point due to a long history of parental favoritism that consistently prioritized his younger sister's comfort and desires over his own.
This dynamic created a spoiled expectation in the sister and a deep sense of being undervalued and resentful in the OP.
Given the established pattern where the parents dismiss the OP's autonomy and assert that saying 'no' is meaningless, the central question remains: Does the OP's explosive reaction constitute an understandable, albeit inappropriate, response to years of systematic invalidation, or was it an unjustified outburst against his sister who was only acting on the boundaries set by their parents?