Teen stands up to parents for several years of unfair treatment

An 18-year-old teenager turns to the Reddit community for advice after years of having known as his parent’s “exercise child” has finally driven him to his breaking point.

“I was not allowed to spend a lot of time with friends as a child,” he writes in His postdescribes the strict rules that seem to be only applied to him and not to his younger siblings. He explains that while he was held at home, his siblings were allowed to visit friends from as young as 4 or 5 years old.

When he asked his parents why the rules were so different, he says: “They told me that I was their practice and that they did not want all their children to whine in the face to miss.”

This explanation became a painful abstinence because he noticed more and more deviations in how he was treated compared to his brothers and sisters.

The teenager shares that even the meals were a battleland, with his parents who enforce a rule that he had to clear his plate completely, no matter how full he was.

“If I was full and left, says three peas or something, I had to stop and end or they would be taken aside and served to me next time,” he remembers. However, his siblings were not held to the same standard, and when he questioned it, his parents simply said: “They learned from me.”

The differences did not end there. “My parents were always super cursed and angry when I became less than that,” he says, describing how he was founded and was forced to do extra chores for a month to bring home a B, while his siblings could get CS and DS without consequence.

When he took up the injustice, his parents often repeated that “I was their practice and they learned from things with me,” he claims.

He admits that parents of course learn when they go, but he says, “They learned with me and gave the benefits to my siblings. I saw no one.” The teenager points out that his parents never apologize for being hard at him or for screaming, and that the double standards were extended to chores, gifts and even curfew.

“Expectations of chores were always higher with me, always birthday and Christmas presents were very different and noticeable to get both sides of the family to ask what they gave me because it seemed so little compared to my younger siblings,” he shares.

He was also not allowed over 16:00 during the summer, even as a teenager, he claims, missing on birthday parties that his siblings could participate.

The last straw came when his guide asked about college savings, and he realized that his parents had not saved anything for him, even if they had for his siblings. “That’s when I knew I was done,” he says, describing how he held his head down for a year before he finally left home.

After graduation, he made the decision not to allow his parents or siblings to participate in his graduation ceremony. “Instead of claiming some (tickets) for them, I got them for my grandparents instead,” he writes, explaining that his parents were furious when they found out, even though his grandparents were happy to support him and his grandparents even let him move in with them.

When he was confronted, he told his parents, “I was done to be their practiceid and I refuse to keep it anymore. I said they can F — with my siblings and learn to live with it because I’m not here to be a punch bag while they get the best versions.”

His parents responded with anger, accused him of all kinds of things and called him his name. But the teen has stuck and said, “I’m really clear.”

A commentator empathizes and says: “I get to be” practice children “or in my case the guinea pig that my dad likes to say, but when they realize that one thing does not work and they have to adjust it means they need to adjust with you, nor continue the same way with you and another for your siblings.”

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Adds another, “I really do not understand why they eventually did not let go of you and told you something positive certainly not fair and imo mental abuse. Hope your grandparents make the right of you and that you get yourself on solid foot, you set up your future.”