u/ihateteacakes

I'm an adult, but my teenage brother (14 turning 15) will play roblox on the phone with his other male teen friends. He'll say stuff like, "Oh my god, [insert friend] have my kids" or something when he gets a headshot. He says a lot of "sus" things. Is this normal, or is he gay?

Edit: I know there's nothing wrong with being gay... If he was gay I wouldn't care, but I was confused because he says things like "I'm gonna bust on you" to his guy friends so I never know

No, it's not Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was a book with no pictures, and the cover was blue, I think. It was about a boy who was on vacation, and it had something to do with Martha's Vineyard. I think he thought there was a mystery there, but there ended up not being one, I think? He had a little sister, but one main detail I know for a fact is he had a mother who wore headphones or did something with her phone because she believed it would cause cancer or something. It was realistic fiction from what I remember, and the title was something generic. It MAYBE came out around the 2010s. I read it around 2015-early 2017.

My stepfather "was" a former gang member who would commit a vast amount of crimes but was locked up back in 2016 for a murder he committed about a year prior. According to my sister (my only direct family member who still keeps in contact with him), he will be released next year. He snitched, so he's planning on moving to an entirely different state for a clean slate with my sister.

Edit: To clarify, my sister is his blood daughter, making her my half-sister. Didn't clarify because growing up, we didn't feel like half of anything.

Should I just give up 😭 first one was about 5 years old and this one was 2. No clue where to go from here because I hear appeals are futile.

Is this an update? If not how the hell do I fix it... also before pinterest used to show me all of my boards but now it only shows me like 6 of them, and when I tried to refresh it lowers it to 2? Why? I'm on mobile

I made a post on a separate subreddit regarding an incident of me finding indecent images of animals on my brother's tablet. As of right now, I've been seeing a lot of negative things men do and how they treat others and approach things like sex etc.. so this incident didn't make my perception of them any better. When I made the post I had voiced my concerns and fears that it would escalate to him abusing a real life animal or beyond, and in response a bunch of men were downplaying it and framing it as me overreacting to a weird kink. I feel like I'm going mad, I'm fearful of my own flesh and blood acting out against a being that can't consent at all and everyone's just like "so what they're just pictures", at this point do they only say things like CSAM is bad just because it's illegal and nothing else? Not because it's morally wrong and fucked up because they're "just pictures"? I've lost hope in them.

I, 20F, found zoophilia porn on my 19M brothers' tablet a year ago and ever since I haven't been able to look at him the same.

We both live with my mother, and we share a room (we grew up really close and there's 5 people living in this apartment, we're rarely in the same room at the same time) and one day while he was asleep I picked up his tablet because he was watching YouTube to nap. He had telegram open and I was so disgusted by what I saw, the groupchat names, the AI generated pictures of animals, everything. I even saw a conversation between him and another user who had claimed to have raped one of his pet dogs, and he was asking him questions like how it felt and stuff.

My brother has always been a strange individual, but I just chalked it up to him being on the spectrum as we are both level 1 autistic and have strange interests and approaches to things. He's into furry art (actually found an account of his where he watches furry porn once and I was weirded out a bit but the characters were cartoonish, walked on two legs and had mostly human features so I brushed it off in my head) however I thought that was the extent of it.

The day of I had therapy and was shaking the whole time as I explained it to my therapist, and I was advised to tell my mom which I did. However, her response to it felt off for lack of a better word? Like when I told her she asked me "Was it animal torture/mutilation?" And she kept asking that over and over even though I told her no, it was animal NSFW, and she didn't seem as concerned about it. I'm not in my mother's head so I can't say for certain, but it felt like a "that's a really weird fetish but I don't wanna hear or involve myself with my child's sexual preferences" type thing not "oh he's a future abuser of some kind" type response. My exposure to the concept of zoophilia were youtube videos exposing people like that who eventually escalate further than just raping animals, some even harmed children because they can't get enough, so I tried to explain to my mom I was concerned my brother would be the same way. She said she'd talk to him about it but I'm not even sure she did.

I'm just not sure what to do anymore. It breaks my heart that my brother who I was so close with as a child who would never hurt a fly has developed into a person who even dreams of doing such things. I have no clue how to even approach a conversation like that, and even if I did knowing the type of person he is I see zero desire to change as I'm of the belief he has a porn addiction on top of that (hence why I'm even more scared of it escalating even more, people with porn addictions tend to be even less satisfied with things they expose themselves to constantly no matter how disturbing the content is)

What do I do?