Today, I was over my grandparents' house for my grandfather's birthday. For years they would talk to each other in Italian and I could never understand them, so I started to take an online class to teach myself Italian. Now I know all they talk about is how much they hate everything about me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went downstairs to get a drink and overheard my grandparents talking about me. They spent a good 15 minutes double-team attacking me for my failings as a human being, mainly me not being married with children yet. I'm barely 20. FML
Today, my grandparents came to visit. So far, they have called me fat, bragged about how my cousin is better than me, and told me how I'm not good enough for them. It's OK though, they gave me a pretzel from the airline and a textbook on physics. In another language. FML
Today, I had to listen for over 10 minutes as my brother and grandmother discussed how much they hate me. They thought I was asleep. FML
Today, I discovered the terrible things my parents say about my wife while visiting them. They speak in Arabic around us and I've never really been able to understand them. Guess who hasn't only brushed up on his Arabic, but spent the last 6 months teaching his wife… FML
Today, I spent all day cleaning for my grandparents to come over, only for my grandfather and father to interrupt me, talk over me, and treat me like I'd done something wrong. I'm autistic and was infodumping. They know this. FML
Today, I visited my in-laws, whom I thought I was on great terms with. I soon learned that wasn't the case when my mother-in-law yelled at me about how I've been abusing her for years. Ten minutes later, she hugged me and asked me for grandkids. FML
Today, I listened to my grandma monologue about how if my uncle was born first, my mother (and consequently, I) would not exist. I then got to listen to her rant about what a terror he was. Let's just say I learned and heard some things I'd rather have not known. FML
Today, I was sitting in class when I overheard a group talking about how much they don't like me. When they saw me there, they burst out laughing. FML
Today, I went to visit my grandparents, as my grandmother may not have long left. When my stepfather wasn't grilling my visibly uncomfortable grandad about Bible passages, my mother was trauma-dumping about how hard her life has been, and how awful her marriage to my father was. They're his parents. FML
Today, I'm spending time with my granny, with whom I'm supposed to live with for a few weeks. I've noticed that she repeats the last word of every sentence I say, and now I'm wondering how it's possible for me to now be so horrible that I want to punch a sweet 92-year-old lady in the head. FML
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OhDearBetrayal 25
You should play along with it and then when the times right you should start talking in Italian. Embarrass them.
kittenmeownyan 18
Sorry OP some families can be real assholes even to their one of their own.
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Comments (83)
Kn0wledge123 21
Tell them off.
olpally 33
Ignore them. Just walk away from that situation or start speaking Italian and tell them to shut up about you. Heartless grandparents ya got there op.
perdix 31
You ought to go hang out with that nice German family and hope their Italian is as poor as their English.
birdfreak 24
Start talking in Italian! Or learn some stuff in another language, and start saying stuff about them!
purebliss_fml 19
Time to stop visiting nonna and nonno until they can treat you with respect.
B00K_L0V3R93 31
Wow, that's harsh. I would randomly talk to them in Italian. They'd soon learn to watch what they say.
perdix 31
Tiramisu. (That means "I'm crying for you," I think.)
DocBastard 40
No, no, no. It means "delicious ladyfingers soaked in coffee and layered with custard that DocBastard can't even hope to resist". I may be paraphrasing a bit.
perdix 31
#31, don't forget the rum. If you forget the rum, ol' perdix will lose a bet.
moonshain 6
Tiramisu actually means "pick me up" literally translated. The phrase is "tira mi su" when you put the spaces back where they belong.
AngrySailor 17
Tell them to "go f'coffee".
AlexRen 21
You'd know what would be irony for them is if when they get older they need a care taker and it's you.
skyeyez9 25
I always wondered what the old korean women talk about in nail salons. They speak in korean as they are fixing customer's nails.
perdix 31
#22, bring Frank Costanza with you next time. He's fluent in Korean!
olpally 33
Now that's a good reference there perdix^^ lol. Haven't seen that episode in years!