AITA for telling my parents I am not going to help them out ever again and they are now on their own?
From a tender age, she bore the weight of loss and chaos that no child should endure.
The death of her infant sister cast a long shadow over her childhood, soon overshadowed by her brother’s escalating turmoil—a storm of anger and destruction that tore through their home and stole the innocence of everyday life.
Her world shrank as fear and sacrifice became the norm: no friends, no celebrations, just a silent endurance of pain and isolation.
Childhood joys were paused indefinitely, her milestones marked not by happiness, but by the harsh reality of survival in a home gripped by unrelenting struggle.
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The original poster (OP) experienced a childhood defined by severe ins**bility, parental neglect due to sibling caretaking, and the sacrifice of personal freedom and safety following a family tragedy.
The core conflict is between the OP's deeply ingrained need to protect themselves from further emotional harm and their parents' current demand for their a*sistance due to the ongoing, unmanaged crisis with the brother.
Given the documented history of emotional and physical burden placed on the OP, is their refusal to provide any further care to their brother and parents justified as a necessary act of self-preservation, or are they acting unfairly by completely abandoning family members in extreme need?
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