AITA for telling my boyfriend's family I needed my hands amputated after they kept giving me “craft supplies” as gifts?
The user, a 25-year-old woman, has been in a three-year relationship with her 26-year-old boyfriend.
She enjoys crafting, particularly reusing materials like empty bottles and soda tabs, a hobby that her boyfriend's family initially supported by saving materials for her.
However, during a joint birthday party where the user received a bag of sc**p materials while her sister-in-law received expensive gifts, the user felt embarrassed.
After a similar pattern of perceived slight during Christmas, where she received dirty sc**ps after injuring her wrists, the user fabricated a story about needing hand amputations to shock the family into realizing how hurtful their gift choices were. Now, she questions if her extreme reaction was justified.
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The user is currently experiencing conflict between her feeling of justified anger over what she perceived as deliberate insult from her boyfriend's family and the resulting negative fallout, especially after her sister-in-law accused her of cruelty.
Her boyfriend supports her action, while she is beginning to doubt the extreme nature of her response.
The central debate is whether using an elaborate, false medical emergency—claiming impending hand amputations—was an acceptable, albeit drastic, tactic to communicate feeling insulted by thoughtless gifts, or if this deception was an unacceptable overreaction that caused undue emotional distress to the family members.
When the Crowd Speaks, It Echoes Loudly:
Users didn’t stay quiet — they showed up in full force, mixing support with sharp criticism. From calling out bad behavior to offering real talk, the comments lit up fast.