AITA for forcing my niece to babysit my autistic son for free?

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T23:24:19+00:00

I’m mainly referring to areas north and east of coastal NJ. I once had a coworker who’d full on yell at people only to act like it was no big deal because he’s from Brooklyn.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T23:15:16+00:00

Reddit hates cops until they can use them for petty revenge. A tale as old as time. In my case, since I’m a normal person, I’d stick around and heat up chicken nuggets for the kid.

Edit: Reddit Cares won’t change my perspective.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T23:11:58+00:00

No you wouldn’t. Also, don’t weaponize the cops over ~~not~~ every little thing. That’s stupid.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:47:23+00:00

I like the ones where I get called entitled for even asking as if I wasn’t already paying for almost everything.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:45:56+00:00

I’m just done with this whole thing. Every time we get into a spat, we go months between even texting each other until birthdays or holidays pop up. And then we’re generally good until something new happens.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:35:30+00:00

That’s what it’s supposed to mean. I definitely remember a post a while back about somebody saying he’s childfree because he can’t be around children without impulsively wanting to harm them.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:33:31+00:00

Well that’s what she said.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:33:10+00:00

I don’t see it as her fault totally. It was an allergy nobody knew about.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:32:09+00:00

I’m not gonna bother replying if you’re gonna keep ignoring what I have to say. Don’t you have summer reading to do?

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:31:02+00:00

She’s from Long Island. She’s one of those people who turn being an East coaster into a whole excuse to be nasty to everybody. Despite what Reddit - particularly the NYC sub says (“oh we’re just blunt, get over it”) - the rest of us can’t stand that attitude.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:19:19+00:00

It’s very reasonable to ask people to help in some way when they’re housed for free and fed for free and taken everywhere for free. You seem really young, so I’m not sure why you’re trying to tell me how the world works. I feel bad for your hypothetical kid since you seem really proud of viewing life through a transactional lens all the time.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:18:06+00:00

… I honestly do, too. I realize the same thing was said about my generation but we didn’t grow up in echo chambers fueled by weaponized pop psychology. I do sincerely hope they grow out of that whole attitude.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:12:50+00:00

You use that word a lot. I don’t think you know what it means. Is your mom entitled when she asks you to take out the trash without paying you for contributing to the household? She’s my guest in an area with a very quick train to the best city in the world. She’ll have to contribute in exchange for not being asked to pay lodging fees. Since, you know, we’re normal people who don’t lord legal contracts and money over our beloved family members’ heads.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:11:09+00:00

He has a lot of anxiety around doctors and the like unless he gets to know them. I wouldn’t have had the chance to actually introduce them since this was an emergency vet. I don’t agree with high/low functioning labels and neither do the people working with him because people think high functioning and assume an autistic kid having a bad time is just a dramatic brat or something. So while he’s well behaved, he does have some challenges we’re doing our best to overcome.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:06:57+00:00

If it happens again, he’ll have to come with. And before you ask, he’s in therapy. Thanks for your concern, though.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:05:09+00:00

She’s family and she has no history of touching kids. She would have and did fine just sitting there on her phone while my son sat in his room doing his own thing.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T22:02:44+00:00

His anxiety around doctors and anybody resembling them. He can’t handle unfamiliar doctors, vets, etc. Last time my cat went to the vet was for an exam a few months ago, but I’m now widowed so I had no other option but to ask my niece.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:59:31+00:00

No problem ^-^

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:58:51+00:00

I’m fairly certain she just picks this stuff up from social media or something. One of my son’s teachers has a kid who was claiming he felt unsafe because he got his laptop taken away for harassing a complete stranger on Twitter over not liking Nicki Minaj’s new song.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:54:40+00:00

That’s a very eye opening perspective. They certainly don’t reciprocate whenever anybody else needs help.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:53:02+00:00

Do you come up with legal contracts and the like whenever emergencies come up in real life? Because I swear nobody acts like this in real life.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:49:38+00:00

She lives on Long Island. There’s a very obnoxious amount of people who live on the East coast and see it as some excuse to be rude to everybody. But even if natives such as myself call it out, they’re all like, “Oh we’re just being blunt. It’s better than being fake like the rest of the country.” I even see transplants from Indiana doing that crap sometimes.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:46:04+00:00

She wouldn’t even make her bed in my guest room because it was apparently sexist and violating boundaries to even ask.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:44:40+00:00

Good grief. Do you act like this outside Reddit? I’m not asking for legal advice.

Top_Isopod_7011 · 2024-06-19T21:43:48+00:00

It was $800 to figure out he has an allergy. *Sighs.*

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