u/Reetyb

Hey there, I’m 17 and I have a 46 yellow naped Amazon.

She is a lovely, quiet, sweet loving girl 95% of the day, she talks at a quieter volume and is quiet in the mornings (blessing) and in the evenings. With the occasional noisy day.

She sometimes will do her flock calls when she knows I’m in the house but can’t see me, and it’ll increase in volume. It isn’t ear piercing, but it’s a very loud “hello!” Similar to if someone was yelling it across the room to someone else . Her flock call is only “hello!” And “mama?/grandma?” From her owners before me.

Anyways, being younger I have a supportive family. I will always have her, and I bought and have her with my own money. I am just worried about college, and jobs. Not having “enough time” or trying to find a place for us to stay once I’m old enough and ready.

So, younger Amazon owners . Tell me your experience with navigating life right now. What’s your routine? How are you handling it? Any tips? It would be lovely to soothe my anxiety, lol.

For context I’m a glass child twice, but my twin brother is the one we worry about most. Born with epilepsy that leaves him at the mental maturity of a 9 year old.

To say he’s fucked up my family and life would be an understatement. My relationships, social interaction, self esteem, all that was impacted. I feel like an alien. And I can’t get upset because he “doesn’t understand” . I deal with it all year just for our birthday to come around and he gets all the love . I barely get shit . I have to put up with him. My parents divorced . He tore it apart.

I know it’s not him, it’s the condition, but it’s also everyone around him who refused to correct his behavior

There would be times where he’d tell me I belonged in the kitchen, or said something racist to someone or something else against me to get a rise out of me. He does this to argue, he will argue all the time and never apologize. He does it to feel powerful because he doesn’t have power anywhere else. But my family never corrected it

I snapped tonight. We were sitting at the dinner table at a Mexican restaurant when he brings up how he’s “not mad at ICE for doing their job.” I got up and told him to sit at another table or sit in the car. I wasn’t going to deal with his shit . He does this every night, every single night. To get a rise out of me. Every.single.night. And my parents just tell me “he doesn’t understand” when he absolutely does.

We can’t even have a family dinner without him ruining it. I’m tired of this. I want a normal brother and a normal family.

Hello. My school recently got attacked with a phishing email along the lines of “Save the date!” Sent out by one of my teachers.

I was not aware of the scam and opened the link on my iPhone, just to be met with “open on computer”. No links or anything was downloaded to my knowledge. And I just closed the tab.

Should I be worried ? I changed my email password but not sure how that stuff works, tysm