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9497 from the Am I the Arsoul Here subreddit and says, am I the arsele here for throwing my brother's

prison trauma in his face to prove a point. My brother has always been an angry, hot-headed thug.

Since he was a small kid, he showed violent behavior, idolized gangs, and would just generally be a prick to everyone. He's the kind

of decent guy that goes on about respecting him and tries to intimidate everyone just because

he can. When he was a teenager, it escalated dramatically and our parents tried whatever

they could to fix it. He started using drugs when he was 16. By the time he was 19, he went

to prison for two years. Prison changed him. After he got out, he was not the same guy. He flinched

when you touched him, slept with the lights on

and added an extra lock to the door of his room when he stayed with my parents. He was broken.

He eventually had a full-blown mental breakdown where he started talking about what happened.

It was about as bad as you expected. His combative nature isolated him day one and made him a target for all kinds of abuse

his entire sentence.

He's been in therapy for years.

He's 32 now.

He went back to school, met a nice woman and is actually turning his life around.

Our relationship isn't perfect and it will never be fully healed,

but he's trying to actually be a human being. The problem has been the last couple of months.

You can see it on his face. The way he acts, he's slowly going back to his old ways. He acts

aggressive around mum and dad. When he's out, he tries to pick fights again. The people he hangs around

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