So I (15f)Live with my dad(46M)his wife(39f)her three sons and there two sons.All the boys are under 12 and are spoiled little brats.One year on my birthday my mom’s parents gave me a new skateboard and the next day the oldest kid threw a fit and my dad made me give my skateboard to the kid.Then one year at Christmas my youngest step brother insisted he wouldn’t eat unless I wasn’t there.All there hatred for me stems from the fact that my step mom hates me and always mocks my weight and one time gagged and rolled her eyes when I cried after my mom’s death.well recently my oldest step brother got into pranking me.Im talking like how he dumps a bowl of chili powder in my food and my stepmom made me finish it.Or how he switched my shampoo with green die.well recently I have locked my doors out of fear.So one night I’m chilling at my computer when I here him coming I peek out my head and see him sprinting for my room.Right as he gets there I slam the door and immediately hear a blood curdling scream I open the door and my step brother on the floor screaming and holding his head.My step mom comes sprinting up the stairs and my step brother comes up with a n elaborate story of how I punched him in the face after he hugged me.I told my dad and step mom that he was trying to prank me.they believed me since my step brother had a squirt gun filled with red dye.Im extremely allergic to red die.Well normal people would punish my step brother but my step mom started berating me saying I ruined his fun.Now she and my dad are deliberately ignoring me and my dad turned of the tv while I was watching it.So AITAH?
AITAH for shutting the door in my step brother’s face
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no and your dad sucks
NTA.
You need to document everything and call CPS.
Talk to a trusted adult if you have one, preferably on your mom’s side, but if you trust someone on your dad’s side to stick up for you, that works too. Otherwise, as soon as you’re able, get a job and start saving to move out as soon as you can.
Your step mom is vile. She’s the AH through and through.
You are not the AH. This is an abusive situation. Do you have anyone you can talk to. Grandparents or aunts/ uncles.
Absolutely NTA. You are living in a toxic and abusive household. Your stepmother is openly cruel to you, your stepbrothers are encouraged to bully you, and your father is enabling it.
NTA… fuck. That’s some messed up shit. Sounds like you’re dealing with a real piece of work there, OP. Your dad enabling it is just as bad. I’d be terrified in your shoes. You need to get out of that toxic hellhole ASAP. Don’t hesitate to reach out for help from anyone who can listen and support you, teachers, trusted relatives, even police if needed. This abuse needs to stop
Things that never happened
Ahhh so:
Bratty step kids, evil stepmom, dad who does nothing, dead parent…
Any reddit cliches that ARENT here?
YTA for the fake story
You have a shite father … he sounds like a sad little man ….. parents are supposed to protect their children and he failed miserably when he married that horrible woman
Obviously NTA
You need to figure a way to get out of there
NTA. Your father should be ashamed of himself, and your stepmother is an awful witch.
Your stepbrother is a psycho. Food tampering is a crime, and spraying you with something he knows you’re allergic to is an even more serious crime.
I wouldn’t fuck around with this. I’d engage an emancipation lawyer (many take these on pro bono). You’d have grounds as you’ve been the victim of multiple crimes while under your parents’ supervision.
You ‘ruined his fun’ by not letting him squirt an allergen on you?
Look into emancipation. See what needs to be done, and how soon you can achieve it.
If you have any family members that could take you in, while you finish your last years of highschool, before you go to college, go for it.
Look into boarding schools too. Anything to get you away from that nut house
NTA
NTA. Can you live with another relative? You should go live with someone else and site emotional, mental, and physical cruelty. Let it be known that they allow the boys to bully you and cause harm. I wouldn’t have eaten that chili powder, I’d have smashed it into his face. Trust a trip to the ER will for one of those boys will make your transition away from them easier. Leave and go no contact for life.
Contact the police and report attempted assault that, depending on the severity, could have become attempted murder. Then let your B step mom deal with the fallout of her son being accused
Report the situation to the child abuse hotline. When they come question you tell the truth. Your father and his b wife won’t be happy but things should change.
Call CPS and tell them about all of the bullying both your brothers and your step mom does. Tell them especially about the red food dye and about your step mom forcing you to eat something with chili powder. CPS will talk to the parents about how what they and the kids are doing is not good and how they need to stop and how you can contact them again, when needed.
Also, see if you can get a lock for your room and you are the only one with a key. Keep it locked while you are not in it. Set up a camera in your room just in case and video record the kids and your step mom anytime they do shit like that again. You can save it and send it to CPS if they keep causing trouble.
So had he succeeded with his “prank” and had his fun you could have died? Time to call cps and the police. You are getting abused and you live in fear and your life is being deliberately put in harms way. I promise that your dad will care once he’s locked up in jail for child neglect and abuse. As for your step mom and her psycho-monsters, karma will get them.
Do you have relatives on your mother’s side who can look after you until you turn 18? The foster system sucks but if you do call cps, those are your two options you have.
This is my greatest fear in life that I pass away and my daughter is stuck being raised by some bitch