Today, I won an award at school for my hard work. Afterwards, my parents told me off. Why? They wanted my brother to get it instead of me. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mom told me I was a bad daughter because I didn't get anything for my parents' anniversary. I just sent my brother a check for $400 for my share of their gift. FML
Today, I received an award from my school rewarding me for my honor roll and my cheerleading. When I brought the certificate home my mom congratulated me and hugged me. I worked really hard for this and all my dad had to say was, "Try this flavor of Doritos." FML
Today, my family yelled at me for being a "selfish disappointment." My crime? Not being able to help my sister's boyfriend do his homework while I'm working on my class finals. FML
Today, I overheard my dad telling his work buddy that he's disappointed in his kid. I assumed he meant my brother, for flunking out of school. He meant me, for quitting sports to focus on my studies. FML
Today, I won an academic award during an assembly. Everyone laughed, followed by booing. FML
Today, my mom got angry that I won't give her the funds necessary to send my little brother to military school. She wants to send him because he caught her cheating on our dad and punched her in the face. FML
Today, I got into a huge fight with a girl at school. My mom and dad decided to punish me by letting my three older brothers pick out my wardrobe for the next week. FML
Today, my mom yelled at me for fighting with my younger brother. Not because she wanted us to stop, but because my brother couldn't find a good comeback to my argument. FML
Today, my mom proved to me that there was favoritism between me and my siblings. My mom made me use my money to buy everyone dinner, but when my brother wanted to buy himself food, my mom asked him if he was gonna buy me and our sister some too, he said, "No, I don’t want to" and she said, "That’s fine." FML
Today, I got a text from my mom that said, "Your dad and I are so proud of you." Sweet, right? It was meant for my brother. FML
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BelaLugosisdead 0
That's ****** up. Not gonna lie.
RJB 0
How about you just start failing school and say I wanted my brother to get the good grades.
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Comments (79)
SuicideSaint_fml 0
This is the time where you stop caring about your parents' opinion, **** them.
ManUpFucker 0
While everyone is saying "**** your parents man!" and "Its just life!" its NOT that easy. They are his parents. Everyone spends their lives wanting their parents to love them. They either learn to soften the blow as they get older, suppress the hurt, or not. But he should not have to. His parents are jerks. No matter what the Op did something good, he won an award. His brother might not have won it. So I applaud you Op for doing a good job. Don't let them tell you differently, you have earned it fairly (unless you cheated).
happyhak 5
#14, yeah, because all kids get to pick out their parents before a man and women have sexual intercourse...seriously? -.- To the OP, your parents sound like dicks. If your brother makes fun or anything, bash his face in and tell your parents that you feel like bunking off school if they are gonna bunk off responsibilities as parents...
z_xcvu96 0
tell your parents to get over themselves and stop acting like butholes
nova0311 0
OMG, the same thing happened to me when I was a kid. i won the school spelling bee (in 4th grade), and my mother told me not to display the trophy because it would make my older sister (in 6th grade) feel bad! Too bad sis! It went right on my dresser, as did the ones for the next two years.
ecascio2010 9
you don't have very nice parents, they should be happy for you.
ashleyb104 0
that's fucken dumb
ChaosOfDarkness 0
I'd b like, "Well **** u too douche-bags. At least I'm not some ass who's messing around and FAILING every damn class! Assholes."
FarscapeSDC 9
My mother did something similar to me. I was on holiday with my family in Australia. We were visiting my uncle and his family when I received an Email from my university saying I had been accepted into the medical school, naturally I was ecstatic and wanted to tell everyone. My mother basically ordered me to not spread it around because it "Might make your cousin jealous." My cousin is 6 years old and still thinks that she can be a mermaid when she grows up.
syvlerosseau 0
Im sorry your parents favor your brother. Almost all households with more than one sibling, there's favoritism. I know because my two brothers are favored in my family. I'm actually considered a second version of my oldest brother, who got in a fight with my mother after coming back from the Marines for some odd reason and was kicked out and forced to live with his father. It's sad to see it but it happens.
Cecybby 8
Happens to the best of us.