My parents decided to cancel my 14th birthday party to better accommodate my spoiled younger brother.

This happened when I was 14 years old, so several years ago at this point.

I have a brother that's about 6 years younger than me, and he was extra coddled by my parents

for having been diagnosed with high functioning autism when he was 4.

But other than that, he seems very normal, just unbelievably spoiled, and he used that to get his

way a lot. And by a lot, I mean nearly all the time. Anything I had, he also had to have it.

So that meant I had doubles of almost everything that wasn't shared items.

And anything he had that I didn't, he would rub it in my face any way he could.

When I was 11, I begged my parents for a 3DS for my 12th birthday.

I got one, but then was told to lend it to my brother whenever he wanted it.

Or else it'd be taken away, which was honestly a lot.

When my aunt found out after seeing my parents forcibly take my 3DS out of my hands,

to give it to my brother on one of her visits, she let loose on them for such blatant favoritism.

They returned my 3DS immediately, then blamed me for the situation after my aunt left.

But they didn't make me give it to my brother again.

Instead, my parents went out a few days later and bought another 3DS as a surprise gift for my brother.

On several of mine and other people's birthdays, my brother made a huge fuss

because the party wasn't all about him. Even going as far as to outright state that he was upset

because he wasn't getting any gifts or getting to blow out the candles on the cake.

My parents learned the hard way, that they couldn't enable my brother the way

that they would have liked to at those parties, and were actually kicked out of a few

for trying to enable some kind of toxic behavior.

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