Lurker > Michael_Booth

Thanks y'all~

I don't actually drink so I don't know my way around cocktails

The last object you newly came into contact with. So for example, if you've been holding a PS4 controller for an hour without letting go of it, but you briefly bumped an Xbox controller with your elbow half an hour ago, the Xbox controller is now a cow.

The GOP is going to be outraged about this.

Monopoly taught us nothing.

Do you have the one with the media companies?

Not here. We have one compulsory module (process and plant engineering, the others can be freely chosen) and I passed with a 4, so a D+ lmao

SysAdmin position. During the phone screen the hiring manager described the company as laid back and chill so that's why I've got some self-doubt.

A suit has never failed me before, though, I should say that.

It's not particularly surprising. Bootstraps, anything to feed the ego. I was like that as a kid - the unfairness works in my favor, I'm bigger and smarter than my peers without effort on my part, so unfairness is good because it's good for me.

They can borrow money from the government

This happened.

Oh sweet, everything here you can post on youtube and not worry about copyright bs?

Quick backstory. Growing up my family looked a typical suburban white upper middle class family. Despite this aesthetic, both my parents were verbally abusive and my mom would hit me and dig her finger nails into my arms whenever she would get upset at me. I would sometimes go to school with bloody wrists and forearms from where she would grab me. In the past she had slapped me across the face, thrown my model cars and legos at me, and so on.

Fast forward to when I was in middle school, my parents get a divorce and Im forced to live with my mom. After several horrific years living with her I moved in with my dad, which to my surprise was just as bad of a living situation. From 13-17 I had the worst years of my life. I was depressed every day, had zero self confidence, and both of my parents were contributing to my mental collapse and depression. I eventually turned things around during the last year of high school, made some quality friends, and began loving life again. I owe the current man I am today to those experiences I had when I was 17-18.

When I was 22 I moved out permanently and my relationship with both my parents improved ten fold. I would speak to them on the phone nearly every day, I regularly got lunch with my mom, and my relationship with my siblings was solid.

However, this all changed a couple years ago when my sister had a situation occur with my moms boyfriend, causing her to run out of the house and moving in with my dad. My sister and mom do not have a talking relationship from this point on.

During Christmas of 202 my mom and I get into a large fight regard a large sum of money that I lost in investments. The argument was so bad that I left her place and ended my vacation early. I have since only spoken to her on the phone 3 times in the last year.

My brother decided 6 months ago that he will not talk to me unless I maintain a relationship with my mom. Him and I only exchange shallow texts on holidays and birthdays nowadays. We used to talk often through text, send each other memes, videos, talk about music. We were somewhat close.

Shortly after my brother stopped talking to me, my sister began seeing a therapist and she remembered a memory she had suppressed since the age of 4. She says my brother would do things with her when she was 3-4 and he was 10-11. Around 13 years ago my sister originally brought this up to my family and it caused some awkward tension, but the situation kind of.fizzled out. Sadly, everyone moved on like it never happened. Hell, I even forgot that it happened. In the rare times the situation popped in my head, I would think of it like a strange dream that never actually happened. Its not like I could talk with my parents about it, the subject was so taboo. But now the cat is out of the bag. My stepmom does not want my brother to see my sister, my dads relationship with him is fractured, and I dont talk with him.

I dont talk with my mom.

My relationship with my sister was improving the last couple years, but tonight she threw that all away so now were not on good terms.

My grandmas dementia is so bad that she forgot my name after singing me happy birthday on the phone, and mentioning my name during the song.

It feels like I only have a connection with my dad as of now. When I was growing up I had this big family with many distant relatives in the picture, and somehow I lost all of that. This really sucks.