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My estranged brother is 32 and lives at home with our mother. He has a full time dead end job and goes to community college part time. He has never lived away from her.
I am 35 and have been married for 10 years. I have struggled with (actual diagnosed) complex ptsd and alcoholism my whole life (started drinking at 16.) My brother has the same but doesn’t drink like I did. We were always pitted against each other growing up.
I recently, finally made it one year clean and sober. I reached out to him to share that victory, a small olive branch to perhaps show him I am growing and healing.
He replied that he didn’t want to talk to me and that I should “seek treatment for my undiagnosed BPD.”
He replied that he didn’t want to talk to me and that I should “seek treatment for my undiagnosed BPD.”
He claimed that his opinion over the past “few decades” was that I am incapable of interacting with him or the world on any other basis besides victim hood. That I am now a “right wing zealot” and a “TERF” whose “belief system is antiethical” to his.
The only possible way he knows any of that is that our mother saw me wear a maga hat on Facebook (and that was over a month ago, I’ve gone much further right than that since.) I rejected trans ideology years ago..
.. , but since he doesn’t speak to me as a human, we never have actual conversations. It was always superficial subjects which he spoke AT me about at length and detail without regard for my interest or understanding (for example, car engines) or Star Trek memes.
His attitude is just so contemptuous and hateful and leaves me in tears, honestly.
So at the end of telling me I had undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and basically performing literally everything described in this thread https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1316118539183386625">https://twitter.com/wokal_dis...
So at the end of telling me I had undiagnosed borderline personality disorder and basically performing literally everything described in this thread https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1316118539183386625">https://twitter.com/wokal_dis...
.. he signs off without even calling me by name and claims that my email was a “thinly veiled attempt to show [I] am suffering from addiction.” OH and ends with
![.. he signs off without even calling me by name and claims that my email was a “thinly veiled attempt to show [I] am suffering from addiction.” OH and ends with](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElMjK5YXgAAezcH.jpg ".. he signs off without even calling me by name and claims that my email was a “thinly veiled attempt to show [I] am suffering from addiction.” OH and ends with")
his estate. HIS ESTATE.
This occurred like one day after my dog died and I honestly wanted to drive the three thousand miles to his house and beat him to a pulp. Of course I didn’t, I’ve never fought anyone, but I did wish I had something besides a snide comment to leave him with.
