📝 AITAH for calling the police on my father

By Temporary_Bug_6441 • Score: 0 • April 12, 2025 1:39 AM


I know it sounds bad but here's the whole story:

So I (24F) have acted like a adult for most of my childhood due to him being unstable. Up until the age of 7 I lived with my mom, that's when I was sent to live with my father and his parents, Mind you my grandparents raised me for most of my teenage years, which gave me some room for being somewhat of a kid while taking care of them.

Something I should point out is that my father was verbally abusive, He also hit me a few times which has lead me to flinch, I have PTSD When I hear yelling even if it isn't directed it me. When we would fight he would always say that I wasn't his, that I was his brothers, It has been thrown in my face that I might not be my father's so many times I've started to doubt myself.

I once had to go to my grandfather to take me to go pick him up because he had gotten drunk and made some trouble. With him, I had be the mature one, I had to be the adult. My feelings to him are not important and I am not important to him as he has proved it, he would let his girlfriends treat me however they wanted, which overall meant I took care of their kids day and night, I clean the whole house, and If I didn't? Or If I got something wrong? Or one of the kids got hurt? Punishment.

Now to the important part, I received a message stating what I could only assume was Suicidal, and I immediately became worried. Something to know about me is I get sick easily, I also have a collapsed lung, I started to run outside towrds the nearest hospital when it started to rain. But I didn't stop because despite not knowing if the man I grew up calling dad was my father I was still worried sick about him as I always had been.

It wasn't until I was stopped by a nurse going to his car when I was finally able to talk to someone and they had to me to call the police. I then had a small breakdown before calming down, When I received another two messages from my father stating I should've thought before calling the police on him.

So, Reddit AITAH?

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