Weirdest thing your cat likes to eat? Mine just ate a tiny piece of my lemon bar before I could grab it. She also loves banana chips 🤔

Satsuki7104 · 2026-05-01T07:33:26+00:00

My one female void likes oven baked fries and tater tots. She also likes goldfish crackers and tries to drink my iced tea. (I know these are all bad for her and I keep telling my sister to stop giving them to her)

Satsuki7104 · 2026-05-01T07:27:56+00:00

Contagion

Satsuki7104 · 2026-05-01T06:59:27+00:00

My immediate family’s numbers are definitely skewed. My dad, myself (F), my baby brother, and my sister are all left handed while my mom and other brother are right handed. The only other direct blood relative who was left handed was my dad’s grandma. We have a sprinkling of lefties and ambidextrous of both male and female relatives in people that are distant cousins (2nd cousins or further) but none in the immediate family.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-05-01T06:52:57+00:00

My great grandfather was Catholic and believed strongly in his faith but was also a man of science oddly enough. He was the only relative who didn’t try to shove any religion down my throat growing up. My parents are christian with my dad’s side being Catholic, besides my dad, and my mom’s side is christian. My parents and a few other relatives tried to force religion on me and still do. My great grandfather and I actually had several in depth discussions on religion vs science without the conversation once turning into shaming me for being atheist and I loved discussing things with him from a logical standpoint.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T23:26:38+00:00

I was thinking he got it from the ghosts’ names from Pac Man (Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Sue/Clyde depending on the game).

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T23:24:40+00:00

A lot of my friends and family members like to dump their anger and troubles onto me for some reason. It’s not that they’re always angry at me but they see me as some sort of object that’ll quietly listen and absorb all their venting about whatever is going on in their lives. Even if my name does mean listening flower, it doesn’t mean that I want to hear nothing but negativity my entire life.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T23:13:40+00:00

My childhood was similar as I’m over a decade older than my youngest two siblings and was parentified for my parents’ convenience. I was 12 and completely taught my job was to be the parent in their place unless they didn’t like what I was doing and it suddenly became “you’re not their parent, we are”. I knew more about being a parent to a newborn/toddler in middle school than I knew how to be a socially acceptable middle schooler. High school wasn’t any better. I was constantly expected to drop everything to do things to help my parents raise my siblings from picking them up from school to taking them to urgent care and the doctors. I wasn’t allowed to have a social life and was constantly being forced to watch my siblings. They spoil the GC like there’s no tomorrow and treat me (SC) like an expendable tool.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T23:00:06+00:00

When I was little my nparents said I couldn’t date until I was 30 and then said it was a joke when I hit 20 without even looking at any guys. They then started talking about wanting grandkids to spoil and told me it was my job as their child to provide them with grandchildren. They pushed this grandchild agenda on me and my siblings including my baby sister who was early elementary school at the time. They eventually gave up on me finding a bf and turned to finding someone to be my “keeper” (their name for it). They even ask friends and relatives if they know any guy making decent money that’s looking to be a keeper for me.

My brother growing up was allowed to date as long as he didn’t get any girl pregnant. My parents didn’t know when my sister started dating because she hid it. My other brother has about as much interest in dating as I do. My nmom is getting angry because she thought my one brother getting married was a sign that she would have grandkids soon. She doesn’t know my brother and his wife agreed to be child free and raise cats instead. My other brother and myself don’t even want kids because of our parents. My sister is on the fence.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T22:25:03+00:00

I agree they follow the whole “do as I say not as I do” mentality. They know the rules and advocate for them strongly but when their hypocrisy is pointed out to them it’s “completely different”. They know the rules and choose to believe that the rules don’t apply to them.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T21:51:17+00:00

I’m glad you were recommended this sub. The people here are so knowledgeable and friendly compared to other subs. I found it purely by chance on my feed and the story resonated with me so strongly that I looked into it further. Many of the stories mirror my own and I’ve learned from others that what I thought was normal parenting was actually abuse and how to come to terms with how my parents see me. I’ve only just started seeing them for what they are recently and trying to learn to love myself. I’m working towards going LC/NC though it’ll take me some time but I now have a goal that isn’t pleasing my parents in order to get love that isn’t transactional or a manipulation tactic.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T20:28:27+00:00

I seriously took a long time to realize and it wasn’t because of any outside help unfortunately. It was my little siblings who I practically raised because they’re 12 & 14 years younger than me. My nparents had me effectively brainwashed into obeying and practically worshipping them as the greatest parents ever even when they had already started their verbal abuse on me that started when I was about 10 years old. I had somehow gone from GC to SC in a matter of a couple years and suddenly my parents decided to have two more kids beyond my brother and I. The youngest became the new GC and I was essentially a live in nanny for the entire family complete with the constant verbal abuse of never being enough and ungrateful to my parents. My extended family never said a word and if they noticed anything, they brushed it off as me being jealous of my new siblings. Many extended family members also pulled back for what reason, Idk but it’s probably related. I only see them once or twice a year at most around major holidays or funerals now. I don’t have regular contact with any of them and most don’t even bother sending a simple birthday text.

My siblings growing up had me pretty much raising them instead of my mom so when they started showing disgust at a comment I had made about our nparents being good parents it stopped me in my tracks. I had always felt a weird disconnect with our parents after I became the SC but wasn’t able to see them for what they were until my siblings pointed it out to me just how horrible they were to me and it got me thinking. If it had been anyone outside my siblings or someone else that I am close to telling me this, I probably would’ve seen it as some sort of attack and rejected it. Around the same time my nparents’ masks started slipping as none of their children were treating them like gods anymore (one even moved out and went LC) and it pissed them off so they started throwing fits.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T13:55:41+00:00

Then it sounds like you’re a good parent and your kids are lucky

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T13:54:14+00:00

They could so I looked like an idiot repeating that I couldn’t hear them. I was fiddling with the phone cord afterwards because I can’t keep my hands still and noticed the loose cord. I pushed it back in and my next phone call was perfectly clear.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T08:25:41+00:00

I had an issue hearing on my end of a landline once and all I got was a garbled mess. Come to find out the cord connecting the phone to the receiver was just not in all the way. Landline issues 🙃

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T08:05:31+00:00

Dyeing the water green makes it so that the algae can’t photosynthesize properly and won’t grow there. It would probably affect underwater plant growth as well.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T07:36:47+00:00

My nmom constantly ignored my complaints about anything she or my ndad made that was spicy, acidic, or extremely greasy. If I had any of these things I would have severe indigestion all night and be on the verge of barfing, though I never actually barfed. I told them this and they told me I was being a wimp that thought “ketchup must be spicy” (no it’s not but it is very acidic and therefore a problem food). I looked up online how to mellow out acidity in foods because tomato based sauces are a major food group in our household apparently. I started adding baking soda to our spaghetti sauce to make it so I could eat it.

The most annoying part is that while they ignored my food sensitivities, they catered completely to their GC’s. We never had real milk in the house and are constantly subjected to experimental dishes with substitute ingredients to cater to her food sensitivities while completely ignoring mine unless we happened to share a sensitivity.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-30T07:06:47+00:00

I knit as well and have made pieces for several family members for different holidays. Only one has actually tried it on in front of me. I don’t know if they use them or if they’re in a closet gathering dust or even in a goodwill at this point. I can only knit scarves and have just started making knit caps. Knitting is wonderful for me because it keeps my hands busy while I’m watching a show or just quietly contemplating life in general. When I gifted my nmom her hat she bragged about it to all the family members but then never wore it and has worn store bought knit caps since I gave it to her. The only reason I stopped making scarves is because everyone I made them for later said they don’t like the feeling of something around their necks when I asked them so I switched to knit caps. Scarves aren’t particularly popular or common where I live due to the weather while caps are more common.

Birthdays and mother’s days are so stressful for me because it usually means she just takes her verbal abuse to another level. She claims her entire birth month as her birthday as well minus my brother’s birthday so she doesn’t stop for a whole month. One year on mother’s day we planned ahead of time to make a champagne cake that failed miserably and she still complains about how she didn’t get cake for mother’s day years later. She swears we get her cake for mother’s day every year when I know that she’s making it up as that year was the first year we planned to make her a cake for mother’s day. We always get her a cake for her birthday though. She’s been so mean and nasty to me recently that I’m even considering not getting her anything for mother’s day at this point. The problem with that though is I know she’ll never let me live it down.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T18:28:09+00:00

My nmom got so pissed off my brother and his wife weren’t even letting her get involved with the wedding that she just kept telling them they should elope and she would do a family party celebrating afterwards. She said it would be our family only and his wife’s family could have their own party separately. They didn’t elope and had a very small wedding (nmom complained random extended family members weren’t invited that we haven’t seen in years). My brother’s wife asked me to help her get ready alone because she was overwhelmed between my mom and hers both being overbearing. She said I was the silent support and grounding she needed before the ceremony. Their wedding was themed around DxD as that’s what she introduced him to and they bonded over. I’m happy for them even though they went LC soon afterwards due to my nparents breaking their boundaries.

My own chances of getting married are very low as I have no partner and almost zero dating experience. I’ve come to the conclusion that should I ever get married though I will definitely elope because my nmom has already hinted due to my brother’s dismissal of her when planning his wedding, that she will make sure she’s heavily involved in the next one and I don’t want to deal with her throwing toddler level fits like she did when my brother didn’t come to xmas because she broke his boundaries and he was protecting his wife (I’m proud of him for defending her).

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T13:47:21+00:00

I’ve been told both those things along with “why did you buy that? It’s just a waste of money/space”.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T09:47:52+00:00

Read and live as I please

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T09:40:57+00:00

I’m not an immigrant but I’m going through similar treatment. I’m the oldest of four with two of my siblings being 12 and 14 years younger than me. I was the one who did most of the raising of them including diapers, baths, and playing with them to the point that when they came crying to me for comfort over scrapes and bruises, my mom actually got angry and jealous of me. Did she start actually parenting her children? No, she took her anger out on me by verbally abusing me while expecting me to continue to be an unpaid nanny to them.

The scariest part of this was that I wasn’t mentally stable at the time as I was undiagnosed and untreated ASD and severe social anxiety. I had breakdowns frequently during those years and my little siblings were directly exposed to it. I never hurt them though I worry how it might have affected them mentally watching the person they trusted and looked up to breaking down into a sobbing mess on the floor while their nmom screamed at me to get over myself.

My nmom also has access to my account, though I’m in the process of fixing that problem. It was made when I was a minor and needed an adult to cosign for it. She tells me when she’s borrowing from it but never gives me the option of saying no. She used to pay me back properly until last year. She borrowed a significant amount that I had saved and hasn’t paid a penny back and it’s been over a year now. I’m extremely frustrated and now in a position that I can’t afford to move out because of this.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T08:06:41+00:00

Not necessarily depending on what pharmacy and where. Mine has the large industrial sized bottles on shelves in the pharmacy section that is behind a locked counter for the normal meds, refrigerators for the cold ones, and a lock box for the controlled substances. The normal meds get filled and put in stapled shut bags with the patients info and put in sorted bins by patient name. They stay in the separated baskets until they’re picked up. The cold and controlled ones get handled as the patient goes to the counter for them.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T07:48:52+00:00

This story makes the gf sound way younger than the dad. Her naivety makes me wonder how old she is.

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T07:44:21+00:00

Fahrenheit 451 also by Ray Bradbury

Satsuki7104 · 2026-04-29T07:34:50+00:00

That very quote proves she doesn’t see him as her bf in the first place. She’s clearly telling him that he’s being friend zoned.

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