📝 AITA for refusing to work for my relatives' activity and refusing to see them?

By Short-Education7862 • Score: 3 • April 16, 2025 4:39 PM


(i wanna apologize first for my english cuz it's not my first language) anyway, since when i was a little kid i've always spent my summers with my mom and my relatives (uncle, aunt and cousin), my uncle when he was younger opened a activity he only opens during summer and my mom used to work here and help them, bringing me with her and that's why me and my cousin have always been really close to each other (we're also the same age so we've grown together). when we've started growing up even more my uncle started asking us sometimes to help them with the work and when we were 12 we ended up working everyday in this activity, at the start we were both happy, but for a lot of reasons me and my cousin started distancing during the years and the work started being really hard to me, at the point the most of the ppl started treating me not really well, which caused me a lot of anxiety and stress, when i told my mom about it she ignored it saying i was just being dramatic and it was nothing. anyway during years this work started making me more and more uncomfortable, my cousin started being really mean to me and distancing me from her and her friends, trying to put her parents against me saying i do bad things ecc... now it's been almost four years from the start of it (im not saying my age but u can easily guess it) and im tired of this situation (i've a lot of bad memories cuz of things my cousin has done to and with me but im not gonna talk about them cuz it's not really something i want to say). during those years i've discovered im part of LGBTQIA+ community, im in fact trans and bisexual and she's somehow discovered it and now she is trying to make me admit it with her friends, outing me a lot of times in public, thing that can seriously put me in danger since her parents are strictly homophobic. now i've came out with my mom a couple of months ago but she refused to allow me staying home instead of going there and being pressured every day by this situation. during those years i've BEGGED her a lot of times to stop making me go there and we've fought over this so many times i lost count of it but at the very end she has always done what she's wanted putting me in this (i think i can call it abusive or something similar) abusive place and in two months or so the activity will open again and i'll have to start working again, which i absolutely refuse to do, and i also refuse to meet and see my relatives again. my mom said im egoistic for refusing to help and see them, and that she wants to see them and help with the work, thing that she can't do if im home cuz she can't ofc leave me alone all summer since it wouldn't be legal and that she'll bring me there anyway no matter if i want it or not and im just overreacting as always ruining everything. so AITA for trying every possible way to avoid meeting them even if it means my mom can't see them either? ps. they pay me really poorly (like 1000$ for two months cuz i obv don't have a contract and they think im still a child so i dont need money and they're being generous by giving me some kind of "gift" even if i do a full shift as all the others) so i don't see why would i keep helping them when they don't even respect me enough. (if u have any tip to make it easier or better i'd appreciate it but talking is not a option cuz i've tried already too many times to tell my mom everything it js didn't work and discussing with my relatives is a absolute no, thank everyone for the attention<3 pls dont be too hard)

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