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  1. Stuttermabolur

    Did/do you call your family members by their names?

    Starting from when I was four, I called every member of my family by their given names. I didn't call my parents "mom" and "dad", or even my grandparents "grandma" and "grandpa" or anyone else for that matter. It made sense to me as a kid, because potentially every adult is a mom or a dad, while...
  2. M

    Do not know what to do about this, anymore.

    Received a card from a relative yesterday. We used to visit them, on our way to somewhere else. Stopping by only to say hello, giving them notice by mail well ahead of time. I am their niece. And they in retrospect treated myself and my husband like pestilent strangers. My family were...
  3. AllyCat

    Does anyone have any problems with relatives and relationships?

    Warning: hospitalization, older/younger relationships, manipulative relatives Okay so I was diagnosed with Aspergers along with several other disorders at 14 after a 12 day hospitalization at an acute treatment center. Cut to me being 20 years old, independent, collecting disability with no...
  4. Jorg

    Problem taking care of my brother's puppy

    As the title says, I'm starting to have a problem taking care of her. And my mother and other brother too. The 4month old puppy fell from a 3rd floor last friday and luckily only fractured her pelvis. As my brother and his girlfriend work on day and live 40miles away from our house they asked...
  5. O

    Family Love and Acceptance

    Got into an argument with a relative yesterday over something I did and his take on it. It got heated after my refusal to see things his way and admit to intentions he thinks I had but I claimed I didn't (because I didn't). He called me "moron," a "****ing retard" with my "brain wired so...
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