📝 AITAH for keeping my head down and not talking to anyone at a family reunion?

By Darthcarrot03 • Score: 18 • April 5, 2025 12:34 AM


For some context. My parents divorced a couple months ago and it’s been very rough my sister and I. To make matters worse. My mom started dating a guy-Dan- not even 2 weeks after the divorce finalized. My sister and I were not particularly fond of him but we didn’t hate him or anything. He was just very outgoing let’s say.

Now for the story. A couple days before this took place my mom said we would be going to a small restaurant for some fish fry with Dan’s parents. No problem we had met them before. However, when we walked into the restaurant, it looked like a can of sardines in there with how many people there were. I gave it the benefit of a doubt and assumed there’s just an event going on. I was wrong. 95% of the people there were all of his family and my mom made my meet EVERY SINGLE ONE. Yes all of them. Quick note. My sister and I both have ADHD and pretty bad social anxiety due to some incidents at school. So we started freaking out mentally when we had to talk to all of these people. Eventually after an hour-Yes that’s how many people were there-We finally were able to sit down and I was so mentally exhausted that I just sat down at the table and put my head down to try and fall asleep. Maybe ten minutes later my mom says to stop being lazy and talk to these people. I said no I needed a break and laid my head back down. 5 minutes later, she drags me to the corner and yells at me for being rude and disrespectful to these “nice people”. I said you introduced me to everyone and I was exhausted from talking to so many people. She got in my face and yelled at me for being a baby and to just suck it up for a couple hours. I ran to the bathroom to get away from her and when I came back she acted like nothing happened.

Now I’m wondering if I was in the wrong and should’ve interacted with these strangers whom I’ve never met before. Am I the A**hole?

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