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30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed * When I was 16, my 13-year-old sister got a brand new cellphone. I never had a phone, and I still didn't at the time.
* I worked 3 jobs in college just to survive. My parents paid my sister's tuition, rent, and bills. They also got her a brand new car. I spent my college years working and using public transportation. My sister spent hers partying and going on road trips with her brand new car.
* When I graduated college, I got nothing. My sister got a brand new MacBook, which was stolen a few months later because she left it in her unlocked car.
* My mother constantly told my sister that she loved her growing up. My mother only said it to me once, in the context of "I love you, but I don't like you".

I have plenty more of these stories. And, no, I don't speak with my parents or sister anymore.

PinkClaws , Alena Darmel /pexels Report

Final score:

160points

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Family's_disappointment 1 month ago

What a b*tch of parents

82points

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed Worked in a company for years, my superior left the company and there it was, the possible promotion and new job title including leading a team. I was the only candidate in that team (because they didn't want the responsibility). Boss decided to give the job to his son who had no job experience and told me to help him, because I was one of his best employees.

I quit.

uk_uk , Anna Shvet/pexels Report

Final score:

149points

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Hphizzle 1 month ago

As you should.

70points

TgagHammerstrike , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My mom can kiss the dog as many times as she wants and he's fine with it.

If I kiss the dog, I get growled at.

Final score:

119points

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Strawberry Pizza 1 month ago

*GASP*! The worst kind of rejection!!

86points

RRuruurrr , RDNE Stock project /pexels Report

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed One of my classmates always got better scores on comparable essays in a high school literature class. I suggested it was favoritism so we decided to write each other's papers to see what happened. Our study found that no matter who wrote the paper, if I turned it in, I got a worse grade than if she turned it in.

Final score:

115points

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Anna Losonczy 1 month ago

In high school my friend forgot to write her essay, so I gave her mine to copy. Therefore we literally wrote the same except our names, but she got better grade. :D

52points

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed Years ago, my Ma and dad re-did their will.

They called me. Said, "I just want you to know, that we re did our will and you'll be getting less of our estate."

K. I didn't need to know that and I honestly wouldn't have cared. But without even asking why, she continued, "You seem to be doing well and your brother works so hard. He's going to need it more."

I was a stay at home mom. My brother was (and continues to be) a top exec in a major corporation in a major city with two millions dollar homes.

I'm now twice divorced, living in an apartment, relocating for a full time job three states away.

Funny, she hasn't called me telling me that maybe she re did her will again.

And this is why I forget Mother's Day.

anon , Pixabay/pexels Report

Final score:

102points

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Mary Kelly 1 month ago

even when there is a real disparity in children's mean, i think parents should consider how that child's choices led to the disparity...better yet, just split the money equally...why leave final f**k yous to your children?

4points

mordeci00 , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My mom told my brother a (very boring) family secret and he told me. I mentioned it to her and she got pissed off and said he shouldn't be telling 'other' people about that, it's just for family. I had to remind her that I am also a member of the family.

Final score:

97points

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Skogsrået 1 month ago

Mom forgot she gave birth to OP? 🙄

41points

reyemanivad , Chevanon Photography/pexels Report

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed I'm female. Worked my way up in 9 months from a temp to a downstream operator. Applied for a promotion to the next position up that I and everyone else knows I earned.

Another person, male, on another shift, in my exact position, applied for the position too, but just before, (I will dispense with diplomacy and talk shop), operated the KUKA robot with the touch screen after an operations failure, which is suppose to be a direct call to maintinence, and if you as operator try to fix it yourself it's suppose to be automatic termination. In doing so, he caused the robot to move backwards and break through the cement wall and cause 17,000$ in damage and shut it down for a week waiting for new parts to replace so we could restart the process.

He got the promotion. I quit in protest. He was fired not long after for bringing his guns to work to show off to people.

Final score:

92points

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Pyla 1 month ago

And this really sucks

38points

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My mom used to beat the s**t out of me with anything she could get her hands on, over any little thing. (Because I'm my dad's twin). My little sister never got hit reprimanded or even talked to in any way about discipline. Talk about favoritism. I've cut myself off completely from my family.

mizym , Pixabay/pexels Report

Final score:

89points

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Family's_disappointment 1 month ago

You better!!!

27points

#10

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My nephew's school had two students who won a contest all by themselves. They got a chance to meet the prime minister and show their work. But at the last moment, the principal insisted to add his daughter in the team.

anon , Julia M Cameron /pexels Report

Final score:

83points

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StarCrossedFriday 1 month ago

I’d be super embarrassed if I was that daughter…

41points

#11

I babysit for this woman who has two children: 5 and 3. Her oldest will scream and shout and throw tantrums out the a**. Lasts for 30 minutes to an hour. She just talks to her in the sweetest tone and sometimes open threats but gives her whatever she wants. But her youngest, she will send to her room and hits her with a spoon. The oldest NEVER gets this treatment. Her excuse? “She’s been through a lot. Her dad left when she was 1 and the youngest doesn’t know him at all. It’s really hit her hard so I have to be patient with her.” The youngest is the sweetest child, always has manners and listens wonderfully. But the oldest is a spoiled brat and it drives me nuts that she doesn’t see what she’s doing to her kids.

One example of three nights ago. I came over to babysit at 12 am. The youngest was sitting in her room refusing to sleep, not crying. When she heard my voice, she ran out to me excited. She immediately grabbed the spoon and threatened her and she cried and went to her room. The oldest was screaming from the moment I walked in and was begging mom not to leave. “You want milk? You want to sleep in my bed? You want mommy to lay with you for a minute?” Instead of letting me handle it, she was late for work trying to coax her into stopping. Meanwhile, her youngest is in the other room, silently crying and not screaming like her sister. This is all of the time, the favoritism. One sleeps with her mom every night and the other one sleeps in her room by herself. It’s hard for me to stomach every time I see the favoritism.

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Final score:

76points

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LB 1 month ago

That sounds like it might be grounds for reporting her.

69points

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#12

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My grandma always yelled to my cousins, but she always pampered me and bragged about me to others.

She didn't even try to hide that difference in treatment and I HATE IT when that happened. Even the little-child-me recognized and despised it very much.

Obviously my relationship with my cousins isn't good till now.

Final score:

72points

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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago

I was the cousin who was treated badly by my aunt and uncle, and they blatantly favoured my one female cousin (even though there were something like 10 female cousins on that side of the family - and neither of us was their child). Consequently I *hated* my cousin without knowing exactly why, and while as an adult I recognize that she didn't do anything to me, it's hard to separate that from the resentment I feel. My other cousin (their actual daughter) constantly wonders why no one visits her father now that's he's over 70. I dunno, why doesn't his favourite fly back here from Australia to visit him - she's the one he really wants to see.

18points

Jesse0016 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

#13

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed At the end of our senior party that was organized for my school, they had a raffle with a bunch of expensive prizes. Every single parent who helped organize the raffle had a child who won big and the main organizer had her son win the 2500 dollar grand prize with the not suspicious speech of “and of course, the winner of the grand prize is Charlie.” Yeah f**k that s**t, I walked out with a 5 dollar gift card to an ice cream shop that had already gone out of business.

Final score:

71points

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Pyla 1 month ago

Damn, that’s thievery

40points

Aperture_T , Gustavo Fring/pexels Report

#14

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed So, for a while, my dad decided that he could get more work out of us if he got us to compete to be named his favorite.

Basically the rules he laid out were that if you did something good enough, you were there favorite until someone else did something, and there was some kind of ill-defined benefit to being the favorite that he hadn't decided on yet.

Fast forward a bit, and he had f****d up his company web site because he was experimenting in the production environment like an idiot. He asked me for help, so I did.

He didn't let me touch anything, and insisted I stand there while he fiddled with random controls in Drupal hoping to stumble across the right one because he's afraid of reading logs. That took a few hours. Then he went to the bathroom and I checked the logs, which led me right to the problem, so I fixed it. It definitely saved him time, probably saved him money, and possibly saved his job. I was named favorite.

10 minutes later, my sister comes in from mowing the lawn and now she's the favorite.

It wasn't really a big deal. The only benefit of being the favorite for my brother and I was that he wouldn't insult you for not being the favorite. When I was favorite though, he still made fun of me for being at his beck and call. My sister got things like hugs and pats on the back when she was the favorite, but fewer when she wasn't.

Shortly after the web site incident, we all decided that the whole thing was stupid and agreed not to do anything special for him in the hopes that he'd forget about the whole thing. Instead he got angry that we weren't climbing over each other to do him favors. At first he just lowered the bar for "good deeds", so we just stopped doing anything for him at all.

He got pissed that we weren't competing, so he announced that my sister was favorite again because I didn't buy him a soda and he wanted me to defend my title. Then he got angry that nobody cared. Then he sat in his chair and grumbled about that for a while, and he's mostly dropped it. Sometimes, he tries to bring it back, but it hasn't worked.

So, lessons learned:

* My sister is, and has always been, the real favorite.
* If you want people to compete, there needs to be something they all want to compete for.
* Something about either collusion or collective bargaining, depending on how you want to spin it. In any case, Apes together strong.

Final score:

64points

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BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago

Huh. I have a similar system for my kids. Everytime they do something good, they get awesome points. The things is, points are shared. So you turn in awesome points for a day at the zoo, everybody goes. Want it for videogame time, everybody plays. It ended up building a lot of teamwork. I will hear things like "if we clean up our room now we can get ice cream, c'mon I'll help". Hell, I help too because I really want ice cream. And honestly, the teamwork is better than getting the room clean.

11points

#15

When I was in grade 5, we had a music teacher that brought guitars in for everyone. I was a natural, and so I begged my mom to get me a guitar for Christmas.

Every year for five years straight I asked for a guitar on Christmas and my birthday. On the sixth Christmas, I saw what was clearly a guitar shaped box under the tree. I remember actually being so excited because I was finally getting it, and they had actually gone out of their way to surprise me with it.

And then, I sat there and watched as they handed it to my older brother.

LittleK42006 Report

Final score:

64points

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Skogsrået 1 month ago

Oh ffs, just why?

47points

#16

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My friend is the middle child he had to find a job when he was 16 to pay for his car by himself, work full time through college to pay for it by himself, and had to pay for his new house and his parents didnt offer any help in fact they packed up all his stuff while he was at work and dropped it off in his garage and said good luck. While his siblings did not have to work in high school or college, parents paid for their cars and paid for most of their college when his older brother got a house they offered to help pay.

iiSagez , Soudha J. /pexels Report

Final score:

62points

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SCP 4666 1 month ago

Guess who won't be around at the parents' death bed

42points

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#17

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed One of my professors was the same ethnicity as me and 2 other of my classmates. He always talked to me and the other 2 in our three hour lab and straight up told me in our shared language, “I help out my people. I don’t really help the white kids because they get enough help from everyone else in their lives”. I ended up getting an undeserved A in his class.

andy_wait_up , Mikhail Nilov/pexels Report

Final score:

60points

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GenuineJen 1 month ago

Racism is NEVER ok!

59points

bi_ochemist , Nicola Barts/pexels Report

#18

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed When I was in high school, my dad had a very public affair and my mom kicked him out of the house. A few days later, he sent an email to the whole family begging us to let him back in the house. He had a line for each kid in the email. My brother and I got a few sentences saying that he missed us, etc. However, he wrote an entire paragraph to my sister, starting with "I have always had the best connection with you out of all my children..."

i've since cut him off completely but that still stings a little, 7 years later.

Final score:

59points

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Fellfromthemoon 1 month ago

It might be manipulation and not 'real' favoritism.

29points

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#19

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My French teacher would tell the class who she liked and didn’t like and would give the kids she liked extra credit just for being there.

SMX--- , Christina Morillo/pexels Report

Final score:

57points

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Bored Birgit 1 month ago

This teacher should be removed from her job. Now.

75points

buttercuphopscotch , Alena Darmel /pexels Report

#20

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed Coworker gets paid way more than I do because of "experience" yet I have to do their job and mine. Mind you, they can't do half of what I can because of new equipment/software. Also they can p**s off work like no tomorrow but if I have to take a personal day, I come back with worked piled up on my desk just because. Basically, they get away with everything and somehow I get blamed or reprimanded.

Final score:

57points

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WindySwede 1 month ago

Change job? Just quit on the day when you got new job!

50points

sbankss , MART PRODUCTION /pexels Report

#21

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed A girl I was friends with in high school was the middle child in a VERY wealthy family. The parents clearly favored the older sister and younger brother. The older sister got extensive cosmetic dentistry work done and the younger brother got braces. The middle child wasn’t taken to see a dentist for 5 years at one point; all while the other dentistry work was going on with her two siblings. The parents truly just ignored her and let the other siblings walk all over her.

Final score:

54points

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Miss Mali 1 month ago

Why do these people even have more children than they can divide their attention equally to. It makes zero sense and these poor kids have to suffer this kind of neglect.

22points

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#22

In high school my sister was on the debate team. They would travel around and debate other school’s teams. It was all good fun, went out for pizza after no matter if they won or lost etc.

This year it was an exceptionally good team. They were just blazing through the opposition, had never lost. Then they were up against a prestigious private school’s team. Normally the contested are judged by representatives from both schools, with disagreements adjudicated by a neutral third part who reviews footage of the debate.

My sister’s team absolutely smoked them. Like, there was no question that the public school had won. But the representative from our school couldn’t make it at the last minute, so it was only the representative from the prestigious school judging, who announced that their school’s team had won. There was no way a school that charged enormous fees could stand the humiliation of being beaten by public school kids. The other team absolutely knew it too. They were all looking at the ground, and the captain actually apologised as he was shaking the hand of our members.

By mutual agreement the entire team disbanded after that match. There didn’t seem to be any point in competing any more when the winner was determined by postcode rather than skill.

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Final score:

54points

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Sue User 1 month ago

Was on the math team. We competed by being given math problems and scoring points. My junior year, our team beat the private school and got to go to the regionals. So proud.

33points

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#23

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed Once my step mom started dating my mom, they took care of my little sister and little brother more than me. New clothes, winter gear, game systems, TVs in their room, they got to eat out, huge allowances, and candy when ever they wanted. I got my mom's old clothes or had to buy my own with what little allowance I got, I had to use old socks for gloves in the winter, all I got for entertainment was books, never got to eat out unless I was with my dad, I was forbidden to have sweets, and I had to cook my own food.

LyricalMinx , Sofia Alejandra/pexels Report

Final score:

49points

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WindySwede 1 month ago

And sibling will say, "we had the same mom, how can you ....[insert something here] ... ?

31points

#24

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed My brother got everything he ever asked for. Brand new PCs or phones. His drivers license. A new car.

You name it and he got it all. Meanwhile I was wearing hand me downs, Had an old Nokia 3310 (This was about when Apple launched the first Iphone) and had to work after school to afford getting my license, paying for school trips and buying a PC for school.

She still to this day denies favoring him.

TheSlowToad , Any Lane/pexels Report

Final score:

48points

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LB 1 month ago

Are you Harry Potter?

11points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#25

Had a step brother who was my same age. He asked my stepmom if he could spend the night at a friend's house and she said yes. I then asked her the same question and she said no. I complained that other kid got to go and said it was unfair, so she grounded me. That was 23 years ago and I'm still bitter.

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Final score:

47points

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LB 1 month ago

Understandably so.

25points

rance_kun , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

#26

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed In my school a kid got put into the top class despite his grades being very bad. He was a relative of the school board chairman.

Final score:

47points

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Skogsrået 1 month ago

Wow, this was really a case of " It's not about what you know, it's about WHO you know ".

21points

Fade_To_Blackout , .angels./flickr Report

#27

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed I once got a birthday card, no other presents, from my parents that said, "we couldn't afford to get you an iPod" and then, inside, said, "...so we got you a pea pod!"

My brother got an iPod.

Final score:

47points

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LB 1 month ago

Ouch.

14points

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#28

30 People Recall The Most Blatant Cases Of Favoritism They’ve Ever Witnessed Former teacher here; new coworker assaulted a special needs student and got suspended for the remainder of the school year, the racist principal brought him back and gave him a different yet better position. That year he let go 15 individuals all the same race that didn’t match the principals and hired more than 10 new teachers the same race as the principal.

triplebattery , Christina Morillo/pexels Report

Final score:

44points

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Cee Cee 1 month ago

Where on earth was this? OP should have raised this with the appropriate authorities. Racism is vile.

36points

#29

Way back in elementary school, I had three classmates ("Kim", "Kelli", and "Kristi") whose mothers handled all of our classroom parties. We always had an egg hunt around Easter. The three students who found the most eggs won chocolate bunnies. We had about thirty kids in our class, and all of us were to bring in three eggs to be hidden. The teacher would pull down the window shades so we couldn't look outside to see where the moms hid the eggs on the playground. Every year, from kindergarten through 6th grade, those three classmates *always* found the most eggs, up to a dozen each usually, while the rest of us rarely found more than one or two. Some never found any. The girls eventually confessed that their moms told them they would hide piles of eggs behind specific trees near the doors while telling the whole class, "The eggs can be anywhere on the playground!" One year, a boy found an egg that would have put his total in the running to get a chocolate bunny; he was told it didn't count because the moms didn't "remember hiding that one", so the bunny went to "Kristi".

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Final score:

42points

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Michelle Randazzo 1 month ago

Parents like that are disgusting.

8points

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#30

My 10th grade English teacher told our entire class that she always made sure to give the 5 Asian students in our class higher grades on assignments because “they didn’t speak English that well.” All 5 of them spoke perfect English, had been in our school district for years, and I think all but one were born in America. It was also an Advanced English class.

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Final score:

38points

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Kathrin Pukowsky 1 month ago

Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, I guess.

7points

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Skogsrået 1 month ago

Ugh, parents that shows clear favouritism for one child really rubs me the wrong way. They do not understand or care about the damage it causes.

10points

GlitterPanda 1 month ago

My sister was always the favorite. She has passed away and I still have to compete to get noticed

2points

Ivo H 1 month ago

I had to stop reading halfway through. For the sake of all of these people, I really hope karma will do its job.

8points

Amelia Jade 1 month ago

Growing up, I was beaten with a belt for the smallest things. My brother never was. He was allowed to go out all night with friends, or attend fun events like rock concerts. I had a curfew. I lettered in tennis and earned a bunch of academic letters, but my parents wouldn't pay for a lettermans jacket. They didn't hesitate to get my brother one. When I asked they told me he actually lettered in real sports. Tennis and academics don't count. We grew up with our cousins to the point that it felt like I had three siblings. We were all born within a four year period, so very close in age. But if we got into trouble, I was the only punished. I should have known better and been a better example because I was the oldest. It didn't matter if I wasn't the instigator, it was my fault simply because I was born first. I haven't talked to either of my parents in years. Funnily enough, neither has my brother.

6points

Julia H 1 month ago

My half sister Dibby was never punished, never hit. She was my mother's first and always her favorite. The middle sister got braces and got to go to summer camp. Me? The youngest was hit with a belt and grounded for the smallest of infractions.

1point

Makenzie McNeal 1 month ago

I was often beat and punished for the smallest things when my mom and step dad had a kid he wouldn't let my mom console me when I was and if my sister felt bad he made her go with my mom and I couldn't I was told I didn't need her and my sister did it continued when they had another. It made my mom feel bad I don't know why they're still together all these years later but I think it's because he makes more than my mom and if she left he'd fight for custody of my sisters and win. She says if all 3 of us girls leave then she'll go to. They love each other but it's toxic.

5points

Ms.GB 1 month ago

This was depressing

5points

Apatheist Account2 1 month ago (edited)

I played for a junior football team. My eyesight was getting shorter, so I wasn't very good, but I had one season where I scored 7 goals in the first 6 games (I was a substitute in the first game, then stayed in the side). There were only two of us in the squad who were vaguely left-footed, so we used to alternate as the left winger; the other one's parents used to wash the shirts, and must have complained that their son wasn't getting any games (he wasn't any better than I was, it was previously just rotation). We had just won a game 16-0, I scored two, and for the next game, I and the centre-forward (who'd scored 4) were both dropped so that the other kid could have a game. I never scored for them again.

5points

brittany 1 month ago

i am my fathers twin. we've even dressed alike unknowingly when meeting up. in fact my favorite picture is me him and my oldest daughter and we are wearing the exact same outfit (blue jeans, black boots, a white shirt with black and white checkered button down) all my life my bio mother has hated how much i look like him (they are divorced). even my smile is his. i stopped smiling when she would tell me she'd love me more if i didnt look like him. i dyed my hair and everything, nothing was ever good enough. we are no contact now and my dad is the best

3points

ENSJ 1 month ago (edited)

My parents and siblings have forgotten or misremembered (as in they thought it was a few days later than my actual birthday) my birthday this year, when I was 27, 16, 17, 20 and 23. I still get a text message from my mom on their (siblings) birthdays to remind me that I absolutely cannot forget to wish them a happy birthday. This is one anecdote of my life with the parents and siblings and probably comes to mind first because this year's birthday was just about a month ago. (info: birth order is M+F twins, F (me) and M)

3points

Jack Sonol 1 month ago

I'm the youngest of three, and clearly unwanted. Never got to do any of the stuff my brother and sister got to do because I was "too young" but then when I was the age they were when they got to do the stuff there was always some excuse. When I became old enough to do chores, they were no longer required to do anything. My sister gave birth when I was 11 and I had to spend all of my time taking care of her (eventually) three children without thanks or reward. I got yelled at for asking for five dollars a week after watching them for free 50 hours a week for months. My brother and sister got to pick out their cars as soon as they turned sixteen, but I had to fight for (and fix it myself) an old junker just before I turned 18. My brother and sister adamantly deny that I was treated different, but I got my revenge. My brother constantly bullied me and never got in trouble for it, he turned out to be a terrible person. When my brother still hadn't moved out at 21 (cont)

3points

Jack Sonol 1 month ago

(cont) my dad started bitching to me about disliking my brother. For a long time I just snickered and agreed. Finally one day he said something like "I don't know how he turned out this way" and I let him HAVE it. He turned out EXACTLY the way you raised him. This is your fault, and I don't feel bad for you because you did this to yourself. Stunningly, though not immediately, my dad took this to heart and started treating me better and my brother worse. Too little too late though, I moved out at 16 and my brother stayed with my dad until he was 25.

5points

CrazyKnitter 1 month ago

Most of my friends in highschool had terrible parents, insulting their kids in front of me, their friend. One though, had it particularly bad. Her parents weren't physically abusive or loud or anything as obvious as my other friends. But one day I was over at dinner, and my friend is the sweetest, kindest, brilliant girl with good grades, a spotless record and just a good person. Her brother comes in, slovenly, stinking of weed, and sits at the table barely acknowledging anyone else. They immediately started to compare her to her brother, and unfavourably. Insanity to me. She also got a full scholarship to a Christian all-female college just one state away, but her parents said they'd cut her off if she went there to "whore herself out". She ended up in community college and having a breakdown from the pressure. I miss her so much.

2points

The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

The more I read on BP, the more I realize what an exceptional childhood I had. There are areas where I feel like my parents showed my younger brother favoritism, but he probably thinks the same about me--but it was never as extreme as any of the stories here. And I only had one teacher who didn't really like me (because I realized his teaching methods were bullsh*t), but he never penalized me or gave me lower than deserved grades.)

2points

Damned_Cat 1 month ago

My husband's mother would always buy his brother and sister exactly what they wanted for birthdays and Christmas but would always buy something she thought was "close enough" for my husband. If he wanted a certain blue sports jersey, she bought a blue sweatshirt saying it was the same thing only better because it was warmer. If he wanted a special cologne, he got the Avon knock-off. One year, he wanted a copy of "The Princess Bride" on DVD. She bought him "The Princess and the Pea" cartoon. That may have been the last year he asked for anything specific.

2points

1 month ago

Speaking of cats... My sister was allowed to have a cat growing up. If I wanted to pet the cat, it was HER cat, but if i asked for a cat of my own, it was "the family cat." Then when it died... you guessed it. She got another cat to replace it.

3points