u/MsMarvelfan9 — reddlx

AITAH for not wanting to take care of my special needs brother?

My (24M) parents' (61F and 58M) 25th wedding anniversary is next month. My brother (11M) is low functioning autistic and has to be home schooled. For their anniversary, my parents have decided to go to Italy as they were originally supposed to go there for their honeymoon but it had to be cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. I haven't lived at home with my parents for almost 3 years now as I moved in with my girlfriend. They are asking me to take care of my brother for the entire week that they will be away because they saved up all their money for this vacation and can't afford a sitter because it's expensive to get sitters for special needs kids. They say that they have prepared work that he can do and they need me to make sure he gets it done and to cook his food for him everyday. I know it sounds selfish, but I feel this is completely unfair on me. I am just starting to get successful with my day trading and having to watch my brother all day for a week will distract me and potentially lose me a lot of money. I also feel like this will hurt my relationship with my girlfriend, as she hates kids and always talks about how my brother is "creepy" and I feel that making her spend time with him will make her start to resent me. I also feel like this is them testing the waters to see if they can dump him on me in a few years so they can retire. I never asked to have a special needs brother and I know it's not his fault and he needs someone to look after him but I don't think I should be forced to do it.

AITAH?

EDIT: I feel I haven't given all the context in the main post so I'll link some of my comments that explain some important things further

https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1tg8mxf/comment/omeu4m0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/MsMarvelfan9 — 4 days ago

▲ 0 r/JohnLennon+2 crossposts

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for separating art and artist, and I think the beatles have a lot of great songs and they're one of my favourite bands of all time, but I feel like people ignore all the messed up stuff John Lennon did. Like, he literally has a song where he says THE N WORD over and over again, and people just think that's okay? Nobody seems to mention it. He also treated his first wife awfully and admitted to being physically abusive to her. He also hated George (the best beatle, fight me) and tried to kick him out of the band, and I don't mean like that spat with Ringo, it really seems like John hated the guy. Also, John repeatedly used drugs and promoted drug use which is a pretty irresponsible thing to do when you have such an impressionable audience.

These are just a few of many things he did in his life, I haven't even mentioned his serial cheating on both his wives. Don't misunderstand, I really enjoy all the beatles' music up to beatles for sale and a couple songs from rubber soul, but I really don't get why more people don't talk about the bad stuff John did. I hope this post maybe brought some stuff to light that most of you probably never heard about. If you don't believe me you can do your own research on the subject, but yeah, I think he was a pretty bad guy. If this post gets removed I'll just assume it's censorship. You can't just live in an echo chamber and ignore awful things people did just because they were really talented. You like his music? Cool me too, and millions of other people, but you can't just act like he's the second coming just because he revolutionised the music industry. He was a person, and one with an extreme amount of faults.

u/MsMarvelfan9 — 21 days ago

▲ 0 r/CustomLegoClones

seriously, these people get so mad over criticism of a custom brand that I've genuinely started to believe CAC must be paying them or something, I mean u/GoldenLiar2 practically admitted to getting paid by cac to defend them. How do you look at awful figs like this and love it so much you start calling people "dishonest and foul" (real thing someone just commented on my post that's almost a YEAR old) when someone mentions any slight problems with it. This fig genuinely looks like a bootleg, I wouldn't be surprised if they AI generated the design, and yet clone army customs sells it for like $40 and I bet half of their fans in the comments bought it, their fans eat stuff like this up and get mad when you don't.

u/MsMarvelfan9 — 25 days ago