(08/19/26) - EVERYBODY ELSE IN THIS ENTIRE FAMILY ACTS LIKE HE’S NORMAL????, “Hmm… 'Lilah. what if your mother is brainwashed?" (wth?? 😭), Your family is really REALLY good at putting on masks, ENJOY YOUR FORCE FEEDING SESSION 🐄 + DOUBLE FAMILY EXILE 📞
I long to bear witness to the love that blossoms between two souls / When you love and are loved in return
Journal #14!
📷 - 12:15am [weds] 8/19/26
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WOWOWWOW!!! Just talked with uncle Radly again today! :) I should’ve taken notes omfg
Laughed at old memories (day he howled,, calling SC hot,, when he accidentally killed the mood in the car one day when he told us all he wanted to go home, etc)
> “Yeah,, I actually think I wanted to go back home after about… two months of living in your house 😂”
“WHAT??? TWO MONTHS??? How did that take so long?? How was it not sooner???”
“Haha idk! Oh but yknow what? My mother recently received an invitation to come stay at your guys’ place. She has had MORE THAN ENOUGH WARNINGS. So I don’t know how thats going to go but yknow.”
“How long do you think she’d last over here? 🤭”
“...I’d say two weeks before she started packing her bags. How long do you think you’d stay with the way they were treating me?”
“I’d be counting my days from the second I got there!!! 😂 okay well,,, really I’d probably give it a few days before I jumped the gun,, yknow? I’d wait and see if this is REALLY what this house is like and when I saw that it was,, I’d be OUT. so probably give or take a week. You lasted a year and a half! Wow!”
> “Guess my major!”
“Hmm… Psych?”
“Oh. 😳 yes,, actually. Child.”
“Haha :) …wait… really??”
“Yeah! 🤭”
“Honestly a little bit surprised. But also not really. You… well,, I wouldn’t say you were the social type necessarily. But you definitely did seem to be the more curious one compared to Cecil. Heck,, probably the most curious in the entire household. You were the one who was always questioning things. So psych seems like the natural progression of things. I was never a psych major. But Grandma was. Which is why I know quite a bit about it bc she was teach me some things. Which is why I can recognize patterns of dysfunction so quickly.”
Grandma's apparently concerned for mom? - we brought this up bc I mentioned how I heard dad once say that mom told him that he better go to therapy or else she would never consider him as a partner before they got married and I said,, “who… who told him he was done with the therapy…??” 😳 uncle then goes on to say,, “Yeah. Grandma’s been concerned about that whole arraignment for a while actually. She’d say things like,, ‘ohhh man oh man,, I have no idea why she stays with that boy! She loves him sooo much! One wrong move and he’s gonna shatter her world…”
Which was shocking to hear. Mostly bc… well,, OBVIOUSLY I THINK HE’S NOT HUSBAND MATERIAL FOR HER but more-so bc EVERYBODY ELSE IN THIS ENTIRE FAMILY ACTS LIKE HE’S NORMAL???? So to hear that was genuinely a shock. Its just so strange to me honestly… I’ve noticed it for a while now. Dad seems so… Human around our family. But I feel like he is a stranger around me. Its so bizarre. I’m glad someone else actually acknowledges how not normal he is???
“Hmm… 'Lilah. what if your mother is brainwashed?”
“Honestly,, maybe. Like… that whole thing where the way you were raised leads you to the type of partner you’ll have. Maybe theres something there with that going on.”
“Yeah,, sure… but thats not really what I meant. Your dad is from Lousiana… do you know the stereotype about that place?”
“Um… racism? 😅”
“Not quite. Voodoo,, if you believe in that. Perhaps he cast a love spell on her at some point.”
“... 😳…” honestly DID NOT EXPECT THAT. I knew he believes in supernatural things genuinely but. I wasn’t sure if that was still a thing to tell you the truth. It has been YEARS so I wasn’t sure how much he still believed.
“Uh… are you sure about that? Dad spits on anything that is divergent from the norm. He’s NOT the type.”
“Well,, you seriously never know… Your family is really REALLY good at putting on masks. They’re really good at staying composed(? Can’t quite remember what was said). Which is probably how you were able to contact me at all. I tried to keep it cordial and friendly with them each time I saw them and the last time I saw your mother,, she was the same way. So clearly theres some sort of mask they’re wearing. You’re probably not seeing alot of whats behind the masks to tell you the truth.”
💐🐑 NyaTenshi: Honestly this confirms to ME that there is a chance he might genuinely believe in my existence if she said anything seeing as how some people believe I would be considered the product of some supernatural phenomenon 😂 I just… honestly I DON’T want to talk to him. No ill will. I just. Idk. I’m so nervous about the idea of speaking to her family as myself and risking him NOT believing I exist (we’re more-so thinking he just wouldn’t believe Delilah rather than him thinking tulpas aren’t real) that I’d rather just not do it at all :I or… or that he’d call me “demon shit”... so… I don’t think I will. It was a nice thought at first before it became a real possibility. Nope. Not doing that.
> “Oh yeah I have an eating disorder btw :)”
“Yeah. I figured lmao.”
Apparently he blamed DAD for the cause of it. He said he could see how he contributed to the development of one. He did not say WHY he thought this. But I guarantee you I know why… I figure it’s due to that one time dad,, as uncle calls it,, force fed me beef*.* Short version of the story is me and cecil called some family up late at night to ask them to buy us some food on a whim!! They oblige. But before we even HIT THE CALL BUTTON we told dad that Cecil was not the mastermind behind the plan. I WAS. and that we were doing it. And there was no problem. And yet… about 20 minutes later,, dad is MAD. Blaming Cecil as if we never said anything to him and getting upset. He’s MAD-MAD. Because apparently grandma was contacted and became concerned he wasn’t feeding us. Even though we never said anything of the sort?? All we did was ask for a one-time meal??? So he lectured us until the food arrived.
My order was incorrect… it had beef in it… “well. If you’re SOOOOOO HUNGERY,, then EAT IT. I don’t care if you don’t eat beef anymore. You’re starving, remember? EAT. IT”. so I ate it :I i don’t remember exactly how I felt bc my brain was in extreme flight or fight bc I’m already scared of him and already had ARFID without a doubt and was thus already going insane at the fact that I was eating A MAMMAL. I probably felt dirty. I definitely remember sobbing profusely.
Uncle Rad saw some of it. More than enough of it,, I’m sure,, bc he didn’t stay for it all. It was probably genuinely distressing to watch. He did check in with me later atleast :) I remember distinctly that he described the event he just witnessed as force-feeding. I never thought of it that way though? Idk if I would now,, even. But I do know it was extremely cruel and I hate my dad <3
I am skeptical that this was the cause of it?? I know I’ve had “strange and usual food habits” since I was at least a freshman. But… idk. This event was during my freshman year and I’m pretty sure I was already experiencing disordered eating before this force feeding day.
Although… I do vaguely recall a time as a middle schooler where I would almost exclusively eat the same thing (ravioli) every day with a few other specific foods thrown in the mix.. So that may have been the beginning of it all? I don’t recall any specific instances of psychological distress like I have now though. So… unsure.
> I told him that I plan on friggin’ dying before I tell mom or dad I have been diagnosed with an eating disorder and was going through a period of rapid weight loss
“Well. um. I dunno about that one 😂 you may pass out one day and find yourself in a hospital and then inevitably find yourself in a mental hospital when the doctors discover your eating disorder.”
“Yeah… I have considered that. But,,, oh well,, yknow?”
“Have you ever considered trying CBT?”
“I’mma wait on that ‘till I get out of here :)”
“Well.. idk.. You might end up passed out before then. But I get it honestly. They absolutely would not listen to you without your concerns being agreed with from a source outside of their daughter. But idk. You should consider doing something still.”
“Nope.”
“Heh. I think you will figure out,, years from now,, just how sad all of this is,, kid 😂”
“Yeah? Nah… I’ve already figured that out… I’d rather DIE than say anything to my parents? Yeah. Thats not normal.”
“Yeah… and I think you’ll find… that they never really helped you learn to regulate your emotions very well either.”
“Well you don’t need to worry about that! I’m a psych major! You’re not the only one who’s done some analyzing here.”
> “yeahhh I’m gonna do a softer version of cutting them off 😂”
“How do you mean?”
“Well,, y’know. The second I leave this house,, they’ll be lucky if I ever dial their phone numbers lmaoooo. Although you’ve lived with me long enough to see this coming I’m sure.”
“Yup!! I did!”
“Yup! Its coming to that point soon… I’m getting sent out to a dorm in 2027 :/”
“Yeah its definitely getting to that point for sure”
> “yeah when you told me back in 2022 that my parents were not normal I definitely did NOT believe you. But I never FORGOT you told me that. And over the years I’ve like,, taken notice of how different my friends parents are and how their interactions are! Like! Its crazy how correct you were!”
“Yeah!! I told you!! Honestly… I think you will find it quite shocking to realize that not all men are the way he is.”
“Yeah… probably…”
> HE HAS BEEN EXILED FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY…
Mom & dad want nothing to do with him. We already know this story,, we lived through it 😂
Apparently aunt T wants nothing to do with him bc he tried to pay for a meal he had with her and our cousins but she took offense to it? He’s thinking she has pride issues (he phrased it as: she has issues accepting things from people she views as beneath her). Completely shocked me…
Aunt M had this whole thing where she got upset bc he accidentally left a gun in the back of cousin's car. I can’t recall the story completely… but basically he was clearing out old stuff he collected from his dead father’s house and he was separating his weapons from his dad’s. He was loading stuff up and placed it into the wrong car and… something about [recently divorced husband of M's] switching the car out or something? Anyway,, cousin contacts M over this random gun and finds out its tied to Radly. So Radly gets in some hot water with M bc she was upset about the gun being placed there. As was Grandma…
Anyway,, M reports it to the police for some reason??? And the officer is like,, “Idk why this lady reported you?? Your record is clean. So…. how do I get this back to you so we can move on?”
It was fine to be upset but M was just looking to cause unnecessary drama it sounds like bc he apologized and explained it was a genuine mistake??
Cousin also literally didn’t care that this happened either so it should’ve just been a discussion about keeping better track of his things and returning the weapon and moving on.
Apprently Uncle number 2 tried to “frame him for rent”????? Which I didn’t completely understand what that meant and can’t recal any details but THE ONLY REASON HE WASN’T SUCCESSFULLLY FRAMED WAS BC COUSIN WARNED HIM AHEAD OF TIME. wtf??? 😭
Not gonna lie. This part of the conversation was SCARY. Bc omfg. If this type of stuff happens and I have no clue then.. Um.. I DON’T KNOW THESE PEOPLE AS WELL AS I THOUGHT I DID AND I COULD EASILY BE NEXT.
Although… me and Cecil will probably be just fine. Mostly bc we are always so out of the way that we don’t have a history of stirring things up outside of just being children. So… considering we both don’t really seem to have plans on contacting any family on a daily basis in the future,, we’ll probably stay on friendly terms ALOT easier than he has.
He later said,, “yeah,, I have to encourage grandma not to cut off her own kids and keep a relationship with them bc she’s actually appalled by some of their behaviors.”
> “Haha,, yeah. The reason mom gave for not allowing us to call you anymore was: ‘I don’t want you talking to someone over the phone who tells you I’m a bad mom while I’m still paying the phone bill’
“Wait what??? 😂 I literally never said that? During the “hour thirty",, all I said was that I wanted the freezer to have food in it and I felt like I was being DEPRIVED OF FOOD!!! I have no idea where she got that idea that I even said anything like that.”
“Idk. maybe in her head the words she heard weren’t,, “stock your freezers” and were instead,, “You don’t feed your kids”
“Yeah,, maybe honestly. Have they brought me up in recent times? Whats it like now?”
“Honestly not really… her reaction to you has been: Oh… uncle rad? Hm. I remember that guy. But anyway–”
“Haha well I guess that's better than before!!! Honestly I never really even had that BIG an issue with your mother… more-so your dad…”
“Hey. twins. :)”
“Yeah!! 😂 I remember there was this one time he came home angry,, running around,, slamming doors and I was annoyed. Bc like?? What– are you trying to scare me or something? More than anything I just remember that he was carrying around a burger king bag!”
“Haha!! I hate when he does that too. It’s annoying. Its like– if you aren’t angry with me,, then what are you even doing bro? Go somewhere with yourself y'know?"
“exactly!”
> “yeah,, I basically do nothing around here. [explains the whole thing with not being able to drive and a near-full time schedule so is unsure about how to MAINTAIN ANY FORM OF EMPLOYMENT outside of the nightshift].”
“So.. any invitations from your friends or anything?”
“Nope! We don’t usually have anything to say to each other. It’s like,, say hello to them and then what? Cecil hangs out with their friends a lot though. They’re doing it rn.”
“Ah.. and what about your parents? Same old same old? Dad still live on his video games?”
“Hilrious that you think there’d be anything different there! Same old same old! They’ve actually gotten MORE BORING than since you were here. We all still do nothing.”
“ 😂!!!! Okay!!!! Honestly!!! Not completely surprised. I expected a bit of growth but not totally shocking!!! So… no family really comes over then?”
“Nope. On rare occasions. But definitely it tends to be a quick pop-in or they’re just stopping by so we can pack up and all go SOMEWHERE ELSE!”
“WOW. Its like a house of stagnancy there,, isn’t it?? Your parents are literally like two NPCs who decided to have children! You basically live in a house with strangers,, huh?”
“Yeah pretty much…”
“Wow…”
“Yeah :I"