📝 AITA for hating my mentally ill trans brother?

By did_you_forget_me • Score: 0 • April 10, 2025 5:49 AM


So I (16M) am a trans guy and closeted if that adds relevance to the story, and my step brother (14M) recently came out as trans. He's always been annoying, but now he's basically insufferable. First of all, he got into a relationship with someone he didn't even like to get into a friend group, and they broke up after maybe three weeks. Basically, he's had some "mental health" issues and had a whole suicide scare, and he told his partner at the time about it. They apparently went around telling everyone he was faking it for attention. I have no idea if he's telling the whole story, and he has a habit of twisting things in his favour. I really really want to be lenient since I know he's been struggling, but fuck is it difficult to care. Because I don't. It feels horrible to say, but they only reason I would care about his death is because its just inconvenient, I don't want the rest of my family to be impacted. He ended up bring up his visit to the mental hospital AT CHRISTMAS DINNER. He is obsessed with attention. He will change himself completely depending on who he's spending the most time with. He started identifying as aro/ace when I came out to him as the same, and then he admitted to me that he only said it because I did. One of his friends was threatening suicide and he brought it up at the dinner table multiple times, keep in mind my family doesn't know this friend. He loves making everything about him. He also started going on about how all women were liars and he was "glad he wasn't one." I called him out on this obviously, and he got defensive. I've always had a bit of a banter/teasing rivalry with him, but we barely know each other now. I've gotten to the point of actively mocking and teasing him about things he says that are questionable. I have mental problems just as bad as him, I was suicidal when I was his age but I didn't tell anyone about it. I just don't know why he keeps on flexing it. I know I should feel bad about this, but I really hate him, and I couldn't care less about his mental health issues. Am I the asshole here???

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