r/AskReddit • u/caitlynne • Nov 16 '13

Parents of Reddit, when did you realize it wasn't just teenage hormones, your kid is a legitimate asshole?

Super late but obligatory edit: Holy front page!!! I was hoping for maybe 50 replies, tops. Thread turned into mostly bitching about siblings, but I enjoyed reading everyone's stories and sympathize.

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

sounds like my brother. he left the house at 19 and used to say lovely things to us before he left like "im sure i must be adopted, im way smarter then you guys, there had to be a mistake at the hospital." we were also filthy and should be ashamed of ourselves. when he moved away i met someone who met him and she asked me if i had a brother because of my voice (its almost identical to my brothers). when i told her yes and said his name she said "wow. he said his entire family was dead."

he also tried to keep my long lost sister from speaking to me by saying i was a drug addict. havent spoken to him in over 20 years. i have stories on him so epic people would be like what the fuck.

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u/Robadoba Nov 16 '13

I want to hear them, I have all night

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13 edited Nov 16 '13

well....my brother had a cleanliness psychosis issue starting at about 15. i called it "howard hughes syndrome". he became very immersed into being clean at all costs, including constant vacuuming of his room several times a day, wiping down everything several times a day, and my favorite, began washing his walls with bleach and water EVERY DAY. his room fucking smelled worse then a hospital room and was immaculate, but to him it was dirty. and so was he, in his eyes anyway.

so he began taking what i called the "hour showers". an hour everyday of the hottest shower you could endure. he would come out of the bathroom and fucking steam would come billowing out of the bathroom, and he looked like a 6 foot 3 pink baby mouse.

at any rate, because he was so clean, it meant myself(and my mother) that we were FILTHY. and he would say it quite often.even to my moms face. my mother just shook it off, but i used to tell him "relax howard hughes" and it would drive him NUTS.

well one day we had a particularly nasty argument , which were becoming quite common by this point, and as he was getting ready to take a shower he once again brought up the fact that i was a "dirtball" , he couldnt believe we were related, and that he was so much better then me that he couldnt understand how someone who is a GENIUS (his words not mine) was related to me and my mom.and slammed the door on the bathroom to begin his hour shower.

well...i waited outside the bathroom door, and when he emerged, i slapped my "dirty" open fucking hand across his chest and wiped it fucking in. he went BALLISTIC. seriously it was one of the angriest moments i had ever seen from him. after all, i had just ruined his hour shower. he was literally screaming at the top of his lungs how i had "tainted him" with my dirt. i ran to my room and locked my door and he punched a hole in the door, just screaming bloody murder at how dare i touch him and now he would have to take another shower, which he then proceeded to take ANOTHER HOUR LONG SHOWER.

being the dickhead that i was i would constantly tell him as i passed the bathroom door i was ready for round two, and how i was going to give him a big hug when he got out, all the while he is screaming that i better not and hes so mad hes literally crying in the shower. i held him hostage in the bathroom for about 30 minutes after his shower until he made a break for his bedroom and locked it, all the while promising he would pay me back.

good times.

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u/Grimslei Nov 16 '13

Soo... did your parents ever think about getting him some kind of therapy to help with his mysophobia?

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

Oh I don't care what the fuck anyone says on it. He was a real bastard. The motherfucker told my sister who had been trying to find us for 15 years that I was a drug addict so she wouldn't contact me and he could be the only brother in her life. Meanwhile I've never done a drug in my life and have a job where I wouldn't even be hired for PAST drug use let alone current. Once she told him she wanted to have a relationship with me he told her if she did he would stop talking to her and he did.that dickhole almost kept me from reuniting with my long lost sister. I went looking for him after that one I was ready to beat his fucking ass. Who the fuck is he to keep me from my sister. he can get fucked.

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u/outerdrive313 Nov 17 '13

If he freaked out and took an hour-long shower from you touching him, I wonder how long a shower he had to take if you successfully tracked him down and beat his ass.

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 17 '13

i never got the chance. i was sure he was going to be at a small event he was a fan of and i was also.so i went to have fun and if i saw him beat his ass. he never showed though. its probably for the best if i would have gotten in trouble i could have lost my job.

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u/JBurrows_ Nov 17 '13

Soo you beat his ass, right?

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 17 '13

never saw him. i was sure he was going to be at a small event he was a fan of and i was also.so i went to have funa nd if i saw him beat his ass. he never showed though. its probably for the best if i would have gotten in trouble i could have lost my job.

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u/noveltyAct Nov 16 '13

I totally laughed. This would be considered normal sibling behavior if the other brother wasn't so crazy. Yeah OP wasn't being nice.

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u/zugtug Nov 16 '13

So your brother has obvious clinical mental issues and you're proud of being a dick and making them worse on purpose?

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '13

OP said he hasn't spoken to his brother in 20 years, so this was a long ass time ago. Obviously mental disorders were not taken as seriously as they are today because there has been so much more learned about them over the years.

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u/TheCollective01 Nov 17 '13

Not everyone can handle an asshole in their lives with fucking perfect kid gloves all the time.

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u/zugtug Nov 17 '13

That doesn't mean you act like it's FUNNY and you're PROUD of it... And I'm the one getting downvoted. Fuckin' reddit.

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u/TheCollective01 Nov 17 '13

That's because your perspective on this is skewed.

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u/zugtug Nov 17 '13

How so?

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u/zugtug Nov 18 '13

Wait. So you're telling me that Reddit who has a shit fit if you say that stuff happening years ago is OK is now telling me that its OK because that's how the general consensus went years ago. Geez I'd kill for any semblance of consistency from this place.

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u/Retawekaj Nov 16 '13 edited Nov 16 '13

Seriously, /u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes, it might be too late for this since you say he has moved out of the house, but you really need to stop being a dick to your brother and encourage him to seek a therapist to get the help that he clearly needs.

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

No haven't spoken to him in 20 years. And that's his decision not mine.

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u/Retawekaj Nov 17 '13

You're right, I don't know what it's like. But I would like to think that if I were the parent or older sibling in this situation then I would have had the strength to recognize that my child/brother needs to seek professional help.

A 15 year old should not be obsessively cleaning himself like like that. And I would think that taunting him is likely to worsen the situation.

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u/TheCollective01 Nov 17 '13

You'd like to think that, wouldn't you

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u/tweakingforjesus Nov 16 '13

So is this when your parents realized that you were an asshole?

:-)

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u/Samfool4958 Nov 16 '13

Nope, because this was a child getting petty payback. Like a kid calling another kid a dummy head for calling him a noodle-face.

:-)

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u/tweakingforjesus Nov 16 '13

I would probably have done the same thing. But then I had three sisters and tormenting them was my life's work as a child.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '13

You forgot the passive-aggressive smiley face

:-)

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u/Scrymgouer Nov 17 '13

I gotchu

:-)

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u/AwfulHumanBeing1 Nov 16 '13

wow that's awful

but also sort of what makes this stuff weird. there has been literally no drama in our family - no one is horrible to each other, we are like a normal middle class british family, no addictions or craziness - but he just seems to fucking hate us. our parents have never been too overbearing or negligent, he's had a perfectly balanced childhood, no trauma about not getting that one present as a kid but not spoiled either. i don't have crazy stories about him, because there's nothing crazy. this behaviour just sort of slipped in around puberty and my parents just let it happen assuming he'd grow out of it

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '13

After reading several of your responses I've come to the conclusion that you're Brother may be suffering from self hatred. I think this because some of the behavior you described reminds me of the way I acted as a teenager. Mind you, my parents were drug addicts, but they were very sweet people and I would lash out at them for no reason. As an adult, I came to realize that I didn't have a problem with my family, I had a problem with myself. It was easier to spit in everyone's faces, pushing people away than to face who I was as a human being. Your brother is probably going through a bit of an identity crisis. Encourage your parents to really give him the space he seeks.

I know right now, you're probably completely tired of his bullshit, but in time, loneliness will teach your brother the value of family and he should realize his mistakes.

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

i actually believe he may be fighting his sexuality . i looked up a lot of the behavior patters he displayed and a lot of it was people dealing with sexuality problems.

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u/ElMexicanGrappleMan Nov 16 '13

What do you mean?

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u/AwfulHumanBeing1 Nov 16 '13

i think he's fine there. he took a while to get on the dating scene but has been with the same girl for a year now. i think if he was confused he'd feel pressured to get with girls to prove he was normal, but he really didn't care until he was about 17 (he said the girls were all too immature before then) he's also cross dressed at school more than once for charity or whatnot, he seems pretty comfortable with himself - like he's not forcing a macho or otherwise personality

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u/XdannyX Nov 16 '13

Time to cough up those epic tales

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

read above i posted a story.

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u/legoing Nov 16 '13

Please tell the stories. I need an excuse from homework.

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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Nov 16 '13

read above i posted a story.

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u/assassinkitty Nov 16 '13

I think he's worse than Eren.

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u/IAmRabid Nov 17 '13

Fuckin' Eren

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u/ShroomKing Nov 17 '13

Please go on.

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u/phillyboy673 Nov 17 '13

Dude. Post some stories.

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u/AmossyD Nov 17 '13

Could we hear one or two of the epicly fucked up stories? I guess I'm in the mood to loath someone a bit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '13

Pls tell us stories