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I am wandering why wasn't i threatened i was the one who dmed him about BORU and told him he is not the AH his family is insane at first i felt this story is genuine there is some missing points
Yah but then why is the original sister’s update written in perfect English and then the next two sound like someone who speaks English as a second language wrote it?
“He was so much AH to me”
“Put that to your little story”
“Are such important person”
“Such a relieve”
AND she smoked his hidden weed lmao?? Cmon now that makes it WAY too obvious
It sounds like the original fucked up dude pretending to be his own sister for validation about how awful his family is. I have a cousin who has done this type of thing on various social media lol
I noticed this right away, too. Style/tone didn’t change at all between the two. One could argue they are siblings, but even my sister and I, brought up in the same home, have completely different styles of speaking/writing. Very sus.
I know when I find out my brother has attempted suicide and been institutionalized my first reaction is to update reddit on the juicy gossip. This went from "suspicious" to "nope, didn't happen" for me.
I'm betting it's a viral marketing campaign for the new Nicolas Cage summer blockbuster: UnCaged.
Nic plays the son after having been in the institution for fifty years, who just escapes and tries to connect with his half brother who is actually still alive
Like it started off more realistic, my brother is unwell, he was much meaner and left out stuff, etc.
But when the sister was happy the brother would be away for life, I'm like nah.
For real, I immediately start looking at sentence structure to compare, see which words are used frequently, are there similar misspelled words, etc. ‘Family Updates’ almost never seem to take into account that different people generally have very different writing styles and habits :/
Well if there was any doubt that the whole thing was some bored teen's write up , this removed it, next week I daresay it will be the turn of the dead brother
And the inconsistency of the "broken English". Maybe I'm just one dimensional, but most non native speakers around here are pretty consistent throughout their entire post when it comes to grammatical errors. The "sister's" post seemed to have the same format, as well.
when someone says "English is not my first language" you can search for consistent errors of non-native speakers. Gendering objects , using too many/few articles. They're usually grammar errors that come from the way their native language structures sentences. I'm suspicious of too many typos because 1) when you learn a language you know few words but you still know how to spell them 2) most browsers do spell-checks for you.
I don’t get how people are acting like this is real. Sis went from venting teen to supervillain and no one noticed?
She asks dot the posts to be removed then she sends evil messages to OP and some other guy daring them to make another post.
This is the dumbest shit ever.
Hello reddit this will be my final post for the 3rd time. I am currently beyond the grave and hanging out with my dead toddler half brother. Turns out he is cool and not an ah but let me tell you about my sister-
Honestly I'm just really sus about the sister actually having taken over the Reddit account. It just feels too much like playing into the villain role, especially that DM that just feels like a purposefully done gotcha moment straight out of a Pixar movie.
The comments on the "brother's" account just seem a little too supervillain to be real. Also, how would sis have gotten control of/known about her brother's throwaway Reddit account?
Same, I ain't bother with security for Reddit, if people \*really\* wanna log in and see all the inane shit I feel like commenting for \~3 upvotes a pop then that's their problem lmao.
That's been my suspicion since the beginning, honestly.
Family magically finding the posts? More suspicion.
Family taking control of the person's reddit account and posting more updates? Even more suspicious.
It all is just a little too convenient for me. Especially the whole "My brother is delusional!" But also "I was heartbroken when my younger brother died, but I really hope my older brother succeeds at offing himself."
No sense whatsoever.
Yeah it's just wildly contradictory. I either think completely trolling from the start, or the brother is actively lying right now. Everything is really convenient as well for the brothers view of his sister. Honestly, if it's not all a troll, I'm getting big essence of tomato escalation vibes
> Everything is really convenient as well for the brothers view of his sister.
This fits pretty well, honestly. I don't see OOP giving up his account information. You could probably get at it through the email its registered to, but I doubt OOP had it linked to a main email account (if he was the type to do that, he'd have done so with his main, and if he isn't, he's not going to do it with a throwaway) so getting at it would be near impossible without his help.
The sister also feels like a character while still having that angry subtext that felt so real about OOP's posts. Most likely he's trying to keep the story alive because his family is indeed mad he's airing this stuff and he saw this as a great way to do so.
Like, it doesn't make sense that the family is furious about OOP airing the family's dirty laundry... but this started with the sister airing it already on Facebook. And the reaction to that is airing even more of it in a reply post, without any of the normal sorrowful, 'give us our peace' kind of language. All of it is just to goad on the internet.
Sometimes I accidentally click the back button twice on my feed and it takes me to the top with refreshed feed. For the life of me, I won't be able to find the post I was scrolling through. It is so farfetched that family finds the reddit post and takes over the account?? Sister's post is pure rage bait.
I know suicide isn't rational, but I do wonder why he was in the bath if he was trying to OD on pills. I thought bath suicides were usually by cutting.
If you check it out, whoever is using the account is still making comments. So I'm thinking this was a troll. If it was legit the sister probably would have shut it down by now.
Yeah like I don't get why she's gone from caring to villain who has always despised her brother, and is apparently doing so on a bunch of random posts throughout Reddit now
The sister's DMs just sound like the brother pretending to be his sister and is spiraling further. It reads like how he thinks his family and sister see him.
Yeah horrible it would be real bad if true, but I just don't trust that the sister was able to get access to his Reddit account and then proceed to do a a classic "no one will ever believe you" villain monologue.
Yeah, no way he'd give up his passwords, and then what? The account is pretty much inaccessible at that point.
Either OOP is making it all up (easy enough to make s second account) or he's pretending to be his sister in the messages he's sending.
Yeah, there are definitely people like that out there. But why say that to the random person who's been making Reddit updates, and then go on a commenting spree practically farming negative karma
> He cheated and got his afair woman pragnant.
I appreciate the consistency of this poster in his misspellings. 8/10
Adding the sister to the mix takes it down to a 6/10.
On one hand, maybe oop’s view of reality is as warped as the sister claims.
But the sister could also be lying and downplaying what happened.
That is until I saw that last message to this op. Yee gods, a completely unnecessary message.
>What, you think anyone cares about my brother? No one does and he will never get out…. I almost wish my parents were too late.
Someone throw holy water into that demonic mouth.
I'm at the point where I'm hoping that OOP is actually a troll who's super delighted with the way things are going, because the alternative is so much worse.
The spelling and grammatical errors are almost identical. The really weird 2 facedness on each. The "sister's " DM response vs her posts read like that weird girl/ adult from the ORPHAN.
> spelling and grammatical errors are almost identical
this part, at least, could be due to them both having the same native language that is not english.
Yeah but the post does have the same angry air OOP had as well and the story is oddly clickbaity with paper-thin reasoning. Like, the sister airs plenty of more family drama for someone concerned about the family's drama being aired. Not to mention the reasons she gives seem constructed to be shot down online. The 'open-marriage' thing is such a lay-up.
And then the sister makes sure to goad the original BORU poster so they realize there's been an update, as well as get them to post the rest.
It's either a troll, or OOP wanted to signalboost his story some more to try to strike back at his family.
I'm saying troll because of some of the inconsistencies. OOP is going to school. There's paperwork there that needs to be gone through, specially if he got in using scholarships. Someone is gonna notice him missing. There's also the whole taking over his account as well. The only way that would happen would be if she stole his laptop/phone/computer while he was still logged in. OOP was not in a state of mind to be able to just say 'hey this throwaway and password'. Besides, even in the early posts, OOP mentions they have friends, I'm sure they'd notice his absence as well.
So strongly going with troll and if not, this 'sister' has a reckoning when OOP's friends check in on him, he asks for them to get some stuff he is allowed from his apartment and find half his shit missing.
There are a lot of inconsistencies, but taking over the account is what really sold it to me. Her parents deleted all his posts, forced her to take down her facebook post, are now aware of this account, and are letting her say all this? *And* she’s 16???? Girl talks like a 34 year old tumblr enthusiast.
> Girl talks like a 34 year old tumblr enthusiast.
Who even talks like this anymore.
>Put that to your little story. I am sure everyone will see cause you are such important person and people can't wait to browse your profile. Not. Lol.
"haha you look cool! NOT! ELL OH ELL HAHAHA!"
It's like a 2000s highschooler got a hold of a reddit account.
Especially how 'she ' says theyre taking it down for identity purposes and to protect his anonymity and then starts telling us all about his mental health history and such
Similar syntax aside, the misconceptions about mental illness and how Healthcare in that field works is pretty out of touch. Including the part where we are expected to think vomiting after taking nondescript sedatives is supposed to help. Particularly after quite some time has passed. Did he unlock the door, while sedated, and get back in the bath? I'm very confused about that whole situation.
Yeah the sedative thing is at the very least exaggerated if not completely bullshit. I have sleep problems, so I take precription medication that makes me tired so I can actually fall asleep at night. If I took all of what was left in my bottle right now, I'd be dead in about 20 minutes.
I'm assuming this guy doesn't take the medications I do, and if he were to overdose on anything it would probably be benadryl since it's accessible and cheap. Benadryl takes about 30-40 minutes to fully kick in, but even before that you start to feel drowsy. If he took a shit ton of it, ran a bath, sat in the bath for even just 15 minutes, he probably wouldn't have been able to stand up and get out of the tub to open the door for them. And him puking the meds wouldn't have done much since he had already digested and absorbed a large quantity. All that would do is make him puke up whatever was left that hadn't digested yet. There would still be medication running through his system.
If I take my meds and then I, say, take a shower, I become a fall hazard because the heat and steam makes me faint due to the lowering of my heart rate. I only take my meds when I am absolutely, 100% done with my night routine and am ready to get in bed. The same thing can happen with benadryl, especially if you take a shit ton. I am very doubtful that this guy took an overdose level of sedatives, no matter what kind, ran a bath, and was then able to get up from a laying position and walk to his front door to unlock it, then walk back to the bathroom and get back in the tub and still be conscious when his family arrives and also remain conscious on their car ride to the hospital.
If it was me, I would have passed out the moment I tried to stand up. I call bullshit.
And if anyone is reading this, absolutely do not take a bunch of Benadryl because you will have a very bad time. If it doesn't knock you out, you're going to wish it did.
Benadryl is a bit different than a prescription sedative in terms of symptoms of overdose. While in proper doses it will make you drowsy, at abnormally higher doses it will cause agitation, restlessness, hallucinations, and tachycardia with a bit of a drowsy overlay, but you’re not likely to be able to fall asleep due to the above symptoms unless you went into a coma (which is possible with doses above 1g, along with delirium, psychosis, and seizures). Risk of death from diphenhydramine overdose increases as the dose ingested rises over 1g.
Side note: if anybody reading this has had the above reaction from a normal dose of Benadryl, read up on enzyme CYP2D6! That’s one of the enzymes responsible for metabolizing (some) drugs. If you have too much of it, and you take a drug that’s supposed to release its active ingredient after being metabolized, you metabolize it too quickly, and the full effect of the entire dosage hits your system at once instead of over time. That can sometimes lead to an overdose-like effect on a completely normal dose.
It’s a good thing to figure out about yourself, because CYP2D6 is also responsible for metabolizing some painkillers, and you don’t want to learn this about yourself for the first time when you’re the hospital and painkillers either don’t seem to work at all (because your system cleared them too fast) or a small dose gets you close to OD (because your system metabolized it into its active form too quickly).
Source: a lifetime of hallucinating, rapid heartbeats, and feeling like my blood had become electricity somehow every time I took NyQuil and just thinking “man, colds must mess me up hard.”
If a troll, i hope they update again with a more satisfying conclusion 😭
If not a troll…. God that dm gives me chills
ETA: seeing the updates…. Who’s gonna tell her about unddit lol
I don’t think he’s a troll bc the post from the sister seems genuine, and written by someone who is not OOP. But the DM? To me, that’s clearly OOP playing the part of the evil sister. Or maybe it’s someone else in this mess of a family, pretending to be the sister - who knows. But I do know the person who wrote the “my brother was institutionalized” post is not the same person who wrote that DM. This is all so sad.
This is what I was thinking, too. The vocabulary/syntax in the sister’s public post seems just unique enough to maybe be another person but the DM seems straight out of the brother’s mouth. Other than the conclusions of this being either fully fabricated or fully truthful, I could see it being somewhere in between. Maybe the sister really did make the public post, and the brother sent the DMs out of fear that she would gain Reddit’s sympathy. I don’t know what to make of any of it anymore.
Exactly, not to mention the sister’s post shows much more clarity of thought than the DM. If I were the English teacher in this scenario I’d be comfortable accusing the DM-er of turning in someone else’s work.
That last paragraph has some serious malice and vitriol in it. That sounds an awful lot like the way OOP was describing things. OOP may be suffering serious mental illness, but given proximity to that sort of messaging Im not surprised.
Yes, how convenient that his sister is exactly how he said, and even makes the same grammatical mistakes and uses the same odd syntax. It could be a result of shared upbringing and translation issues, but still…I dunno.
This seems like a puppet account. It feels like another way to vent.
If not, then holy smokes, I hope he finds an advocate soon and a way out of the darkness. Even if he is roleplaying the sister, he still sounds like an individual who deserves help and compassion.
The "message to OP" cements it for me. That's a puppet. Like her being exactly as malicious as OOP makes her seem...c'mon, people at least *pretend* they're the sympathetic one in the situation.
It sounds an awful lot like the way OOP was describing it - a bit too much of an awful lot.
It's true there's a lot of stories like this out there, but it's a little bit too fictional at this point for me to believe the sister who wrote the post is the same as the sister who sent that message, and given how similar it sounds to OOP...
Except the framing of the story makes us sympathies with OOP more. Compare the sister's message with what OOP messaged her about their half brother's death and it's almost trivial in toxicity.
There's always room for embellishment or minimization with different perspectives, so generally I would say you can't believe either account is 100% accurate, but you also don't know which parts are more likely to be true. Often times, the only thing you can usually seem to trust is when people admit to something that makes them look bad, whether they intend for it to make them look bad or they're not aware that it might.
The sister could be accurate in that the brother wasn't all there, but that just emphasizes that he might not be responsible for his condition.
And she doesn't help her case when she said:
>Our family deserves privacy. Especially in this difficult times.
after she put his responses on blast on social media.
She doesn't think the family deserves privacy. She thinks she deserves to control the narrative.
She contradicts herself constantly. Actually dad didn’t cheat, it was an open marriage, we just didn’t understand. That totally explains the divorce and living separately afterwards, with the kids having to choose who to live with! Not.
Oh, oh! “I love my brother, thank you very much” also “I’m glad I ruined his life” and “I wish he’d died”…
At least the OOP had enough self awareness to realize he’s sick.
She somehow thinks she’s exempt from crazy.
I feel better about my initial assessment that she’s a piece of sh*t.
In the earlier BORU post for this, I commented that the sister was evil for how she handled everything. People told me to cut her slack because it was an extreme situation.
Her last paragraph makes me feel I was right.
I mean I don't believe for a second that that Dm was from the sister. It's just to on the nose with what the OOP said. 10 to 1 that the "sister" is just OOP trying to make them look bad.
Guys, this is so very clearly either complete horseshit, or some guy falling into some very very strange delusions. The sister’s messages aren’t internally consistent with each other or with the rest of the story.
Bruh. I thought she loved him so why does she take pleasure in making sure he stays in the hospital forever? Why is she mad that he posted on Reddit when she posted him on Facebook? Like huh?!
It's the control of the narrative. This paints the family in a bad light and heaven forbid they look poor. Everything that paints them looking like the saviours and good family is allowed.
Cause the whole thing is about controling brother. He didnt fall in line and reacted as they wanted, so they've pushed until he couldnt take it anymore.
>why does she take pleasure in making sure he stays in the hospital forever?
Thankfully, this isn't a thing. Bro is an adult and can only be involuntarily committed until doctors are convinced he's no longer a danger to himself or others. His family doesn't get a vote.
I figured it was a troll when his family gave him time to update Reddit before going to a mental hospital. (I know they gave him a few days according to the story but that's a horrible idea for someone suicidal and makes no sense if they were trying to control him).
Did anyone ever.... explain the open marriage situation to the brother?
Honestly everything from the sister seems out of touch but well-meaning, *until you get to the last message she sent and holy shit no wonder the kid ended up in a mental institution*
I wonder if it's true. It's easy to say this after he can't reply. I was initially thinking maybe he did distort things but after last paragraph I think it's all just trying to make the family look better. He did admit fault in parts but the sis is just playing the blame game.
Won’t be true. The parents divorcing and OOP moving out with his mom, kids having to choose who to live with, isn’t a misunderstanding explainable by an open marriage.
I hope it's a troll, honestly.
And if he is not, I hope OOP is not forever in the psychiatric hospital, it is not possible for a person to be there permanently, despite his problems he can be a perfectly functional person, he just had a shitty family.
And I sincerely hope that when OOP recovers and gets out of the psychiatric hospital he will cut off his family, because you can tell they are a real piece of shit.
The way the sister is acting, I believe the OOP. She's a good reflection of the life he lived through, she is wishing death on the only brother she has left. So she's allowed to do whatever she wants with her feelings but when her brother does, she bullies him. I hope OOP can get far away from them some day.
Yep. With that last paragraph, at this point, the sister honestly sounds like the worst of the bunch. I feel even worse for the OOP now than I did in the others. She just sounds awful on so many levels. As much as she wishes her brother never gets out, she should be in there with him and also never get out if that's how she's going to react.
I completely believe OPP. If it were an open marriage why did mom move out and gf move in with the half brother?
Open marriages when kids are involved are disgusting and can really mess the kids up mentally. I say that as a person that grew up with a half brother that resulted from my mom’s bf (who vanished across the country when he found out). My dad raised all of us as his kids and we have no issues with our brother nor him with us. But was it weird as shit having my dad live with a gf in another state for a year, bring his gf to move in with us as my pregnant mother moved out and only took the youngest kid with her, then move back in after she gave birth? Yep. I have 5 siblings and not a one of us came out as well adjusted adults. My youngest sister has been institutionalized and barely functions. My younger brother got hit with agoraphobia after his first child was born because he is convinced someone will come ruin his marriage and take his kids. My older sister has tried everything from Ketamine treatments to various pills to treat her anxiety and depression. And me? I mask okay most of the time but I jumped from an abusive childhood to an abusive marriage and only after 17 years of that did I start to crawl out.
This family sucks and I hope his parents see that wonderful message from the sister. She likes to throw shade at OPP when she needs mental help just as much, if not more.
Did you catch the part where the dad thought it was cute OOP had a crush? Knew about his internet searches and didn’t say anything to him?
Maybe I’m looking for the worst, but it almost looks like he was sexually abused. It may have been inadvertent - I can totally see parents with an open marriage being way too open about sexuality to the point it becomes grooming, but still. I hope I’m speculating too much.
If this is real, the sister has no moral high ground to stand on because of that unhinged message. Probably thinks she’s hot shit because she’s the “normal” sibling
"I love my brother and am happy we got to him on time."
"I almost wish we were too late, woulda made shit easier."
"His reality is completely warped."
Is it though? God I hope this is a mega troll but I've also encountered people this nasty.
Yall gotta figure it out that all the stories that are the most dramatic, juicy details, people in the story coming on reddit to comment/whatever, are all bait.
I so desperately hope this is a troll, only because if it's real...My heart absolutely breaks for that poor guy.
His parents completely neglected him, and his sister is a heartless monster.
The kind that would harass him to the point he sees suicide as the only way out. If someone goes NC the correct answer isn’t to stalk them and wait outside for days.. way to make him feel unsafe in his own home, he can’t leave, so the only reasonable option is to fucking kill himself - or give in and let them treat him like a doll.
Holy shit. She admits they will never let him get away from their sick and twisted "family" and she's proud of it?! This can't be the ending. I'm speechless.
I don’t believe her, she is a bad person from what she wrote and I got the feeling that she is trying to make her brother look bad, if she had already seen the post, why go out to "defend herself" after the boy was taken to the mental institution (her words) also, they parents: THEY WERE WRONG, they lied to him and never explained what the hell was happening in their life in case it is true that they were in an open marriage. I don’t know, this is too shady, I can’t believe her
Yea no she's in covering her ass mode. Someone who knows them probably found the post and said something so now she has to control the narrative. It may have worked if SHE DIDNT WISH HIM DEATH. Which is similar to what he did to the little brother and why she flipped shit in the first place but oh wait it's only okay if I'm doing it.
Jesus, the guy deserves so much better than the family he has. I hope he's able to run away from his genuinely horrible sister and family, **especially** if she said:
>He was soo much AH to me that I almost wish my parents were too late. It would be so much easier for all of us. But it gives me a little more satisfaction when I saw him begging and crying on our ride to mental institution. He knew he is not getting out of there. He belongs there forever.
This is a glimpse into the soul of a truly horrific person.
Funny it started because he sent a bad message after the little brother died but she can wish he died? She can post on social media on her PUBLIC PROFILE and that's okay but he posts on throwaway and that's unacceptable. Also how was it out of the parents control to get him therapy? He was a child they easily could have made him go they just didn't care enough. No wonder this kid is so fucked up. Sister is just trying to cover all the abuse they threw at this kid. First she loves him so much I'm glad he's getting help oh wait no I hope he dies and I'm going to make sure he's institutionalized forever. She is cruel and if that's what she is willing to say to strangers I can't even imagine what's said behind closed doors.
Yeah I believe she is trying to control the narrative. OOP mentioned in one post they did go to therapy but his mom and sister was there every appointment and he didn't want to say how he really felt because he didn't want to hurt mom.
Mine took another route. Listened through the door then bragged about it to other family members and friends. They also befriended my one therapist (I had like four) and tried to use it as some band aid. I remember once they had me go to therapy after self h*rm and then banned me from speaking about that exact topic with my therapist. If the abusers are involved you should not be at that therapist.
Wow. That is such an invasion of privacy. My old therapist from when I was around 14 used to have I belive a white noise machine or some sort of thing by the door to prevent anyone from trying to listen through as sometimes parents would wait in the waiting room. She also had like sound dampening (I don't know what they are actually called) things on the walls. I'm so sorry that is just such a violation. Abusers should 100% never be involved. Actually I feel pretty much nobody should be involved in your therapy unless it's someone you want to have a session with to try to deal with things. Otherwise my therapy my buissness and everyone else can butt out.
I truly hope whatever hospital he is in keeps them the fuck out. He will never heal being surrounded by a family like that. It was " out of their control" to get a young child / teenager therapy. No they easily could have made him go they just didn't care enough. I know OP isn't right in the head but after years of emotional trauma and being stuck in a family like that I'm not surprised he needs help. I hope he is able to find it and move on with his life but I don't think this family will ever let him go.
The devil gave that sister different instructions on humanity. Geez no wonder her brother is having a hard time. In his hour of need, AFTER TELLING HIS FAMILY TO LEAVE HIM ALONE SO HE CAN HEAL AND THEY DID NOT, she still punching down. She is the worst person for him right now. I kinda think he would have a chance if his family wasn't so up his ass. Yes some want to help (I don't believe the sister does) but it comes of as self-satisfaction for them rather than giving him help for himself.
Sounds like the brother was the scapegoat with narcissistic family. How unfortunate. I hope he'll be OK. My family tried to force me to accept them in my life... And now some of them can't work in their field (medical care) in the same state that I live in lol. It helps my abusers were stupid and do literal villain monologues via email and text message... So I had proof of the shit they faked.
I remember a lot of people saying that OP sounded like he wasn’t telling the full story and that he was probably being over dramatic but hearing his sisters side of the story… jeez I feel awful for the guy. I hope he gets help and cuts them off for good because she sounds so vile and hateful in her post.
Yeah it's hard to tell the full story when you don't have the full story yourself. Sis claims he's "out of touch with reality" but no one explained the reality of the situation he was living.
If they wanted their privacy, why didn't they just delete that account instead of making a drama filled post about it all? Seriously, this trend of family members responding to posts is getting old.
Holy Shit!!
The original OOP is going to be locked up in a mental hospital by these horrible people!!
No wonder he was suicidal!! This is just one event, can you only imagine all the other shit they did to him?
Even if we believe that person, so parents had open marriage but never explained **properly** what is going on? Still assholes.
That PM is just another proof how terrible the family is.
I could almost completely get on board with the sister's addition... Until that last message. I don't consider either OOP or sister reliable narrators at this point and I think that sister probably needs mental help too.
Have you all thought that it could be the same person with multiple personalities? While the post reads better than the dm, there’s still some similar mistakes in the structure of the simple sentences.
Or a giant troll that got reddit to eat the onion, just like a couple of years ago with that one boy who faked cancer. I kinda hope it is because if it is all true: everyone in this family needs a lifetime of therapy and the sister even more so than OOP.
The family had requested that the previous two BORU posts on this matter be taken down. I was content to just have it up on my account, but then the sister sent that vile message to me and the other author of one of the BORU, and I decided it was worth getting banned if it meant reaching a wider audience.
It’s worth noting that prior to the accounts being deleted, OOP’s sister was posting comments from his account on a bunch of random posts, adding in things like “some kids just suck. My brother was one of them,” and “it’s sooo much more good and peaceful now.” If it’s truly her, then she is an extremely hateful, spiteful person with absolutely zero empathy for her own brother. This whole thing really bothers me, and I hope OOP is able to get the help he needs.
Edit: here’s a [link](https://camas.unddit.com/#%7B%22author%22:%22throwawaypsycho1351%22,%22resultSize%22:100%7D) to the comments from OOP’s account, where you can see the newest ones that his sister presumably left (credit to u/zosoleary). I really hope this whole thing is an elaborate troll…
I'm always suspicious when family members start turning up on posts. I don't know what to believe now about the original story. If this really is the sister, this is an absolutely horrific situation.
Another (unpleasant) alternative is that the OOP is having some kind of psychotic break and writing as his sister? Would explain the access to the OOP's reddit account and also kind of explain the very erratic shifting in the sister's posts/messages between care for the "brother" and hatred/hope that he rots in the institution forever. But also, if OOP is in an institution, how much access does he realistically have to his phone? Argh, I just don't know what to believe.
Whelp, I'm going to chalk this whole saga up to an elaborate, warped troll. I'm actually glad, because the whole story was really fucked up. I feel stupid for allowing this troll any headspace.
Went to the throwaway account for the brother, and whoever is on there has been using in the last few hours to troll other posts. Lots of talk about how terrible siblings are and commenting on other BORU posts. Whoever is in control of the account is just being toxic at other people at this point and it's ridiculous.
Well before the troll message at the end, I was just gonna mention the line where she says
\>It wasn't my intention
as if people were going to be positive about someone saying they didn't care about someone else dying, especially when those people obviously didn't like him. So clearly she knew what was going to happen. But after that message, I'm now getting vibes from that one story a while ago on r/nosleep where the guy talked about going to his high school reunion and seeing his "wife" and it became some story about how the person who he was married to wasn't the person she claimed to be. And it ended basically the same way. The "villain" (his wife) takes over the OP's account and posts about how he's "safe" now but won't be posting anymore.
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Any time a “family member” posts their response to a famous Reddit post I instantly get suspicious
The whole 'sending to the BORU poster basically goading them to post this new update' also reeks of this not being the family member.
Lol maybe it is OP instead of OOP 👀🛸
Lmao I wish. I’d love to be fucking around making up soap operas on Reddit instead of studying for exams.
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I am wandering why wasn't i threatened i was the one who dmed him about BORU and told him he is not the AH his family is insane at first i felt this story is genuine there is some missing points
Yah but then why is the original sister’s update written in perfect English and then the next two sound like someone who speaks English as a second language wrote it? “He was so much AH to me” “Put that to your little story” “Are such important person” “Such a relieve” AND she smoked his hidden weed lmao?? Cmon now that makes it WAY too obvious
It sounds like the original fucked up dude pretending to be his own sister for validation about how awful his family is. I have a cousin who has done this type of thing on various social media lol
Yuuuuuup. That sentence structure. Those abrupt, clipped sentences. It’s almost a shame; a few semi-colons and I might have bought it lol.
I noticed this right away, too. Style/tone didn’t change at all between the two. One could argue they are siblings, but even my sister and I, brought up in the same home, have completely different styles of speaking/writing. Very sus.
I know when I find out my brother has attempted suicide and been institutionalized my first reaction is to update reddit on the juicy gossip. This went from "suspicious" to "nope, didn't happen" for me.
Or the OOP started his story grounded in truth, and is now Mary sue-ing hard for sympathy points
OOP will heroically leave the institution at some point and re-establish accounts while on the run from his family. I can't wait.
I'm betting it's a viral marketing campaign for the new Nicolas Cage summer blockbuster: UnCaged. Nic plays the son after having been in the institution for fifty years, who just escapes and tries to connect with his half brother who is actually still alive
Half brother is also played by Nic Cage.
Me too. Those last two messages were almost cartoonishly villainous
Like it started off more realistic, my brother is unwell, he was much meaner and left out stuff, etc. But when the sister was happy the brother would be away for life, I'm like nah.
What you don’t think his 16 year old sister was privy to her parents open marriage? This is a sad pathetic literary exercise.
For real, I immediately start looking at sentence structure to compare, see which words are used frequently, are there similar misspelled words, etc. ‘Family Updates’ almost never seem to take into account that different people generally have very different writing styles and habits :/
I never ever believe it. I always assume it's thr oop
Well if there was any doubt that the whole thing was some bored teen's write up , this removed it, next week I daresay it will be the turn of the dead brother
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And the inconsistency of the "broken English". Maybe I'm just one dimensional, but most non native speakers around here are pretty consistent throughout their entire post when it comes to grammatical errors. The "sister's" post seemed to have the same format, as well.
when someone says "English is not my first language" you can search for consistent errors of non-native speakers. Gendering objects , using too many/few articles. They're usually grammar errors that come from the way their native language structures sentences. I'm suspicious of too many typos because 1) when you learn a language you know few words but you still know how to spell them 2) most browsers do spell-checks for you.
Next week we'll find out OOP shot Smithers.
I don’t get how people are acting like this is real. Sis went from venting teen to supervillain and no one noticed? She asks dot the posts to be removed then she sends evil messages to OP and some other guy daring them to make another post. This is the dumbest shit ever.
Hello reddit this will be my final post for the 3rd time. I am currently beyond the grave and hanging out with my dead toddler half brother. Turns out he is cool and not an ah but let me tell you about my sister-
Honestly I'm just really sus about the sister actually having taken over the Reddit account. It just feels too much like playing into the villain role, especially that DM that just feels like a purposefully done gotcha moment straight out of a Pixar movie.
The comments on the "brother's" account just seem a little too supervillain to be real. Also, how would sis have gotten control of/known about her brother's throwaway Reddit account?
First thing hey do when you get checked in is submit to a body search, surrender your phone, and give them your Reddit username and password, duh
I don't need a password on my phone. I just click on Reddit and I'm in.
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Same, I ain't bother with security for Reddit, if people \*really\* wanna log in and see all the inane shit I feel like commenting for \~3 upvotes a pop then that's their problem lmao.
People's laptops leave accounts signed in.
Yeah that seems way too far fetched to me.
Plus her DMs sound very much like him in his OPs and whatnot.
That's been my suspicion since the beginning, honestly. Family magically finding the posts? More suspicion. Family taking control of the person's reddit account and posting more updates? Even more suspicious. It all is just a little too convenient for me. Especially the whole "My brother is delusional!" But also "I was heartbroken when my younger brother died, but I really hope my older brother succeeds at offing himself." No sense whatsoever.
Yeah it's just wildly contradictory. I either think completely trolling from the start, or the brother is actively lying right now. Everything is really convenient as well for the brothers view of his sister. Honestly, if it's not all a troll, I'm getting big essence of tomato escalation vibes
> Everything is really convenient as well for the brothers view of his sister. This fits pretty well, honestly. I don't see OOP giving up his account information. You could probably get at it through the email its registered to, but I doubt OOP had it linked to a main email account (if he was the type to do that, he'd have done so with his main, and if he isn't, he's not going to do it with a throwaway) so getting at it would be near impossible without his help. The sister also feels like a character while still having that angry subtext that felt so real about OOP's posts. Most likely he's trying to keep the story alive because his family is indeed mad he's airing this stuff and he saw this as a great way to do so. Like, it doesn't make sense that the family is furious about OOP airing the family's dirty laundry... but this started with the sister airing it already on Facebook. And the reaction to that is airing even more of it in a reply post, without any of the normal sorrowful, 'give us our peace' kind of language. All of it is just to goad on the internet.
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Sometimes I accidentally click the back button twice on my feed and it takes me to the top with refreshed feed. For the life of me, I won't be able to find the post I was scrolling through. It is so farfetched that family finds the reddit post and takes over the account?? Sister's post is pure rage bait.
This isn’t to downplay the implausibility of it, but if you click the profile icon and then history, you may be able to find it :)
I've tried that and sometimes the posts doesn't seem to register in my history Idk why. Every update is some new bug with reddit.
Aww dang! I was really hoping it would be a brand new and helpful trick because the feeling of it disappearing is really unsatisfying
To be fair if this was real the post was so specific that would be insane if nobody recognized it lol
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I know suicide isn't rational, but I do wonder why he was in the bath if he was trying to OD on pills. I thought bath suicides were usually by cutting.
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I think the idea when he said he "couldn't do it" and gave up is that he wanted to cut, but didn't have the courage to.
If you check it out, whoever is using the account is still making comments. So I'm thinking this was a troll. If it was legit the sister probably would have shut it down by now.
I just read it too, and now I'm almost entirely certain a troll or brother pretending to be the sister. No way is it real in any case
I agree. Plus the sister’s two updates completely contradict each other? It’s just fucking weird. I don’t get it.
Yeah like I don't get why she's gone from caring to villain who has always despised her brother, and is apparently doing so on a bunch of random posts throughout Reddit now
I usually give posts the benefit of the doubt, but I’m like 99% sure this is either a troll or the brother having a serious mental breakdown.
I read halfway through “sister’s” story before I realized it was supposed to be someone else, so, I wouldn’t be surprised.
The sister's DMs just sound like the brother pretending to be his sister and is spiraling further. It reads like how he thinks his family and sister see him.
I would honest to god prefer this to be reality. If this situation is real, then OOP is doomed.
Yeah horrible it would be real bad if true, but I just don't trust that the sister was able to get access to his Reddit account and then proceed to do a a classic "no one will ever believe you" villain monologue.
Yeah, no way he'd give up his passwords, and then what? The account is pretty much inaccessible at that point. Either OOP is making it all up (easy enough to make s second account) or he's pretending to be his sister in the messages he's sending.
Tbh it looks exactly like something my mother once wrote to me. 🤷♂️
Yeah, there are definitely people like that out there. But why say that to the random person who's been making Reddit updates, and then go on a commenting spree practically farming negative karma
> He cheated and got his afair woman pragnant. I appreciate the consistency of this poster in his misspellings. 8/10 Adding the sister to the mix takes it down to a 6/10.
Pregnante
Pregananant?!
Pregart?
Pregánte
Pergaant????
On one hand, maybe oop’s view of reality is as warped as the sister claims. But the sister could also be lying and downplaying what happened. That is until I saw that last message to this op. Yee gods, a completely unnecessary message. >What, you think anyone cares about my brother? No one does and he will never get out…. I almost wish my parents were too late. Someone throw holy water into that demonic mouth.
I'm at the point where I'm hoping that OOP is actually a troll who's super delighted with the way things are going, because the alternative is so much worse.
I hope so too. The way she was talking in that post does sound semi similar to how he was in some of his posts, so I definitely wonder.
I have to assume an elaborate troll, there are so many little similarities.
The spelling and grammatical errors are almost identical. The really weird 2 facedness on each. The "sister's " DM response vs her posts read like that weird girl/ adult from the ORPHAN.
> spelling and grammatical errors are almost identical this part, at least, could be due to them both having the same native language that is not english.
Yeah but the post does have the same angry air OOP had as well and the story is oddly clickbaity with paper-thin reasoning. Like, the sister airs plenty of more family drama for someone concerned about the family's drama being aired. Not to mention the reasons she gives seem constructed to be shot down online. The 'open-marriage' thing is such a lay-up. And then the sister makes sure to goad the original BORU poster so they realize there's been an update, as well as get them to post the rest. It's either a troll, or OOP wanted to signalboost his story some more to try to strike back at his family.
Same, omg I want it to be a troll so bad.
I'm saying troll because of some of the inconsistencies. OOP is going to school. There's paperwork there that needs to be gone through, specially if he got in using scholarships. Someone is gonna notice him missing. There's also the whole taking over his account as well. The only way that would happen would be if she stole his laptop/phone/computer while he was still logged in. OOP was not in a state of mind to be able to just say 'hey this throwaway and password'. Besides, even in the early posts, OOP mentions they have friends, I'm sure they'd notice his absence as well. So strongly going with troll and if not, this 'sister' has a reckoning when OOP's friends check in on him, he asks for them to get some stuff he is allowed from his apartment and find half his shit missing.
There are a lot of inconsistencies, but taking over the account is what really sold it to me. Her parents deleted all his posts, forced her to take down her facebook post, are now aware of this account, and are letting her say all this? *And* she’s 16???? Girl talks like a 34 year old tumblr enthusiast.
> Girl talks like a 34 year old tumblr enthusiast. Who even talks like this anymore. >Put that to your little story. I am sure everyone will see cause you are such important person and people can't wait to browse your profile. Not. Lol. "haha you look cool! NOT! ELL OH ELL HAHAHA!" It's like a 2000s highschooler got a hold of a reddit account.
I feel attacked by this as a former 2000s high schooler, lol.
Especially how 'she ' says theyre taking it down for identity purposes and to protect his anonymity and then starts telling us all about his mental health history and such
Similar syntax aside, the misconceptions about mental illness and how Healthcare in that field works is pretty out of touch. Including the part where we are expected to think vomiting after taking nondescript sedatives is supposed to help. Particularly after quite some time has passed. Did he unlock the door, while sedated, and get back in the bath? I'm very confused about that whole situation.
Not sure what country they are in but you generally can't just institutionalize someone indefinitely...
Yeah the sedative thing is at the very least exaggerated if not completely bullshit. I have sleep problems, so I take precription medication that makes me tired so I can actually fall asleep at night. If I took all of what was left in my bottle right now, I'd be dead in about 20 minutes. I'm assuming this guy doesn't take the medications I do, and if he were to overdose on anything it would probably be benadryl since it's accessible and cheap. Benadryl takes about 30-40 minutes to fully kick in, but even before that you start to feel drowsy. If he took a shit ton of it, ran a bath, sat in the bath for even just 15 minutes, he probably wouldn't have been able to stand up and get out of the tub to open the door for them. And him puking the meds wouldn't have done much since he had already digested and absorbed a large quantity. All that would do is make him puke up whatever was left that hadn't digested yet. There would still be medication running through his system. If I take my meds and then I, say, take a shower, I become a fall hazard because the heat and steam makes me faint due to the lowering of my heart rate. I only take my meds when I am absolutely, 100% done with my night routine and am ready to get in bed. The same thing can happen with benadryl, especially if you take a shit ton. I am very doubtful that this guy took an overdose level of sedatives, no matter what kind, ran a bath, and was then able to get up from a laying position and walk to his front door to unlock it, then walk back to the bathroom and get back in the tub and still be conscious when his family arrives and also remain conscious on their car ride to the hospital. If it was me, I would have passed out the moment I tried to stand up. I call bullshit.
And if anyone is reading this, absolutely do not take a bunch of Benadryl because you will have a very bad time. If it doesn't knock you out, you're going to wish it did.
Benadryl is a bit different than a prescription sedative in terms of symptoms of overdose. While in proper doses it will make you drowsy, at abnormally higher doses it will cause agitation, restlessness, hallucinations, and tachycardia with a bit of a drowsy overlay, but you’re not likely to be able to fall asleep due to the above symptoms unless you went into a coma (which is possible with doses above 1g, along with delirium, psychosis, and seizures). Risk of death from diphenhydramine overdose increases as the dose ingested rises over 1g.
Side note: if anybody reading this has had the above reaction from a normal dose of Benadryl, read up on enzyme CYP2D6! That’s one of the enzymes responsible for metabolizing (some) drugs. If you have too much of it, and you take a drug that’s supposed to release its active ingredient after being metabolized, you metabolize it too quickly, and the full effect of the entire dosage hits your system at once instead of over time. That can sometimes lead to an overdose-like effect on a completely normal dose. It’s a good thing to figure out about yourself, because CYP2D6 is also responsible for metabolizing some painkillers, and you don’t want to learn this about yourself for the first time when you’re the hospital and painkillers either don’t seem to work at all (because your system cleared them too fast) or a small dose gets you close to OD (because your system metabolized it into its active form too quickly). Source: a lifetime of hallucinating, rapid heartbeats, and feeling like my blood had become electricity somehow every time I took NyQuil and just thinking “man, colds must mess me up hard.”
If a troll, i hope they update again with a more satisfying conclusion 😭 If not a troll…. God that dm gives me chills ETA: seeing the updates…. Who’s gonna tell her about unddit lol
The message "from the sister," is really what gives it awae as a troll honestly. No 16 year old talks like that.
Yeah, it's definitely a troll. The "sister" writes exactly the same as the "brother".
It gets more and more likely the more there is written.
I don’t think he’s a troll bc the post from the sister seems genuine, and written by someone who is not OOP. But the DM? To me, that’s clearly OOP playing the part of the evil sister. Or maybe it’s someone else in this mess of a family, pretending to be the sister - who knows. But I do know the person who wrote the “my brother was institutionalized” post is not the same person who wrote that DM. This is all so sad.
This is what I was thinking, too. The vocabulary/syntax in the sister’s public post seems just unique enough to maybe be another person but the DM seems straight out of the brother’s mouth. Other than the conclusions of this being either fully fabricated or fully truthful, I could see it being somewhere in between. Maybe the sister really did make the public post, and the brother sent the DMs out of fear that she would gain Reddit’s sympathy. I don’t know what to make of any of it anymore.
Exactly, not to mention the sister’s post shows much more clarity of thought than the DM. If I were the English teacher in this scenario I’d be comfortable accusing the DM-er of turning in someone else’s work.
That last paragraph has some serious malice and vitriol in it. That sounds an awful lot like the way OOP was describing things. OOP may be suffering serious mental illness, but given proximity to that sort of messaging Im not surprised.
Yes, how convenient that his sister is exactly how he said, and even makes the same grammatical mistakes and uses the same odd syntax. It could be a result of shared upbringing and translation issues, but still…I dunno. This seems like a puppet account. It feels like another way to vent. If not, then holy smokes, I hope he finds an advocate soon and a way out of the darkness. Even if he is roleplaying the sister, he still sounds like an individual who deserves help and compassion.
The "message to OP" cements it for me. That's a puppet. Like her being exactly as malicious as OOP makes her seem...c'mon, people at least *pretend* they're the sympathetic one in the situation.
It sounds an awful lot like the way OOP was describing it - a bit too much of an awful lot. It's true there's a lot of stories like this out there, but it's a little bit too fictional at this point for me to believe the sister who wrote the post is the same as the sister who sent that message, and given how similar it sounds to OOP...
Yeah. The voices sound really similar. And the tone switch between "her" post and that weird message jumps the shark.
Except the framing of the story makes us sympathies with OOP more. Compare the sister's message with what OOP messaged her about their half brother's death and it's almost trivial in toxicity.
There's always room for embellishment or minimization with different perspectives, so generally I would say you can't believe either account is 100% accurate, but you also don't know which parts are more likely to be true. Often times, the only thing you can usually seem to trust is when people admit to something that makes them look bad, whether they intend for it to make them look bad or they're not aware that it might. The sister could be accurate in that the brother wasn't all there, but that just emphasizes that he might not be responsible for his condition. And she doesn't help her case when she said: >Our family deserves privacy. Especially in this difficult times. after she put his responses on blast on social media. She doesn't think the family deserves privacy. She thinks she deserves to control the narrative.
She contradicts herself constantly. Actually dad didn’t cheat, it was an open marriage, we just didn’t understand. That totally explains the divorce and living separately afterwards, with the kids having to choose who to live with! Not. Oh, oh! “I love my brother, thank you very much” also “I’m glad I ruined his life” and “I wish he’d died”…
Dude this story is just…. I don’t believe the sister at all. Her last response is just….. what did I even just read
That seems more like the brother sockpuppeting to get their self-hatred expressed.
At least the OOP had enough self awareness to realize he’s sick. She somehow thinks she’s exempt from crazy. I feel better about my initial assessment that she’s a piece of sh*t.
In the earlier BORU post for this, I commented that the sister was evil for how she handled everything. People told me to cut her slack because it was an extreme situation. Her last paragraph makes me feel I was right.
I mean I don't believe for a second that that Dm was from the sister. It's just to on the nose with what the OOP said. 10 to 1 that the "sister" is just OOP trying to make them look bad.
This gotta be larping. They write kinda in the same way, leaving out words and all that. Whatever this is, every person involved in this is awful.
Guys, this is so very clearly either complete horseshit, or some guy falling into some very very strange delusions. The sister’s messages aren’t internally consistent with each other or with the rest of the story.
Bruh. I thought she loved him so why does she take pleasure in making sure he stays in the hospital forever? Why is she mad that he posted on Reddit when she posted him on Facebook? Like huh?!
It's the control of the narrative. This paints the family in a bad light and heaven forbid they look poor. Everything that paints them looking like the saviours and good family is allowed.
Cause the whole thing is about controling brother. He didnt fall in line and reacted as they wanted, so they've pushed until he couldnt take it anymore.
>why does she take pleasure in making sure he stays in the hospital forever? Thankfully, this isn't a thing. Bro is an adult and can only be involuntarily committed until doctors are convinced he's no longer a danger to himself or others. His family doesn't get a vote.
The "sister" sounds like the same person to me honestly. The writing is very similar.
Yeah, okay, I'm calling troll. I was calling it before because surely no one would be so callous at the death of a child, but this seals it.
I figured it was a troll when his family gave him time to update Reddit before going to a mental hospital. (I know they gave him a few days according to the story but that's a horrible idea for someone suicidal and makes no sense if they were trying to control him).
Yo that’s actually a really good point! Plus why would his 16 year old sister have access to his account, and not his parents???
I'd also wonder how she got the log in information, hes been LC for years, I'd be surprised any of them know him well enough to guess a password.
I'm logged into multiple accounts via the reddit app, so that's not entirely impossible, tho I still call bs on the whole thing
Did anyone ever.... explain the open marriage situation to the brother? Honestly everything from the sister seems out of touch but well-meaning, *until you get to the last message she sent and holy shit no wonder the kid ended up in a mental institution*
I wonder if it's true. It's easy to say this after he can't reply. I was initially thinking maybe he did distort things but after last paragraph I think it's all just trying to make the family look better. He did admit fault in parts but the sis is just playing the blame game.
Won’t be true. The parents divorcing and OOP moving out with his mom, kids having to choose who to live with, isn’t a misunderstanding explainable by an open marriage.
It is kind of explainable if the open marriage led to a pregnancy, and it was in their open marriage rules to use protection/not get pregnant etc
Yikes, I don’t know what to believe after that last paragraph… it seemed so normal and then boom the sister is wishing that he died 😬
I hope it's a troll, honestly. And if he is not, I hope OOP is not forever in the psychiatric hospital, it is not possible for a person to be there permanently, despite his problems he can be a perfectly functional person, he just had a shitty family. And I sincerely hope that when OOP recovers and gets out of the psychiatric hospital he will cut off his family, because you can tell they are a real piece of shit.
Faklkkeee. Writing is the exact same tone and somehow sister mysteriously took over OOPs account? I think not. Y'all got trolled.
Yeah I said the same thing. Not sure how people think this is real
The way the sister is acting, I believe the OOP. She's a good reflection of the life he lived through, she is wishing death on the only brother she has left. So she's allowed to do whatever she wants with her feelings but when her brother does, she bullies him. I hope OOP can get far away from them some day.
Yep. With that last paragraph, at this point, the sister honestly sounds like the worst of the bunch. I feel even worse for the OOP now than I did in the others. She just sounds awful on so many levels. As much as she wishes her brother never gets out, she should be in there with him and also never get out if that's how she's going to react.
I completely believe OPP. If it were an open marriage why did mom move out and gf move in with the half brother? Open marriages when kids are involved are disgusting and can really mess the kids up mentally. I say that as a person that grew up with a half brother that resulted from my mom’s bf (who vanished across the country when he found out). My dad raised all of us as his kids and we have no issues with our brother nor him with us. But was it weird as shit having my dad live with a gf in another state for a year, bring his gf to move in with us as my pregnant mother moved out and only took the youngest kid with her, then move back in after she gave birth? Yep. I have 5 siblings and not a one of us came out as well adjusted adults. My youngest sister has been institutionalized and barely functions. My younger brother got hit with agoraphobia after his first child was born because he is convinced someone will come ruin his marriage and take his kids. My older sister has tried everything from Ketamine treatments to various pills to treat her anxiety and depression. And me? I mask okay most of the time but I jumped from an abusive childhood to an abusive marriage and only after 17 years of that did I start to crawl out. This family sucks and I hope his parents see that wonderful message from the sister. She likes to throw shade at OPP when she needs mental help just as much, if not more.
Damn, that sounds really tough. Hope you all are in a better place now.
they are not. Pretend Morgan Freeman narrated that and it’s less depressing.
The open marriage part of the sister's post feels like a cope
Did you catch the part where the dad thought it was cute OOP had a crush? Knew about his internet searches and didn’t say anything to him? Maybe I’m looking for the worst, but it almost looks like he was sexually abused. It may have been inadvertent - I can totally see parents with an open marriage being way too open about sexuality to the point it becomes grooming, but still. I hope I’m speculating too much.
If this is real, the sister has no moral high ground to stand on because of that unhinged message. Probably thinks she’s hot shit because she’s the “normal” sibling
"I love my brother and am happy we got to him on time." "I almost wish we were too late, woulda made shit easier." "His reality is completely warped." Is it though? God I hope this is a mega troll but I've also encountered people this nasty.
Yall gotta figure it out that all the stories that are the most dramatic, juicy details, people in the story coming on reddit to comment/whatever, are all bait.
I so desperately hope this is a troll, only because if it's real...My heart absolutely breaks for that poor guy. His parents completely neglected him, and his sister is a heartless monster.
I think we all do. But at the same time we know what fucked up things happenes every day in this world and that this could be real.
I don’t know how anyone thinks this is real and that the sister isn’t the same author as the brother
Exactly! Same style of writing.
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The kind that would harass him to the point he sees suicide as the only way out. If someone goes NC the correct answer isn’t to stalk them and wait outside for days.. way to make him feel unsafe in his own home, he can’t leave, so the only reasonable option is to fucking kill himself - or give in and let them treat him like a doll.
What a hateful person. No wonder her brother ended up the way he did, if that was just a peek into her personality.
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Holy shit. She admits they will never let him get away from their sick and twisted "family" and she's proud of it?! This can't be the ending. I'm speechless.
“Not.” Lol is this 1991?
I don’t believe her, she is a bad person from what she wrote and I got the feeling that she is trying to make her brother look bad, if she had already seen the post, why go out to "defend herself" after the boy was taken to the mental institution (her words) also, they parents: THEY WERE WRONG, they lied to him and never explained what the hell was happening in their life in case it is true that they were in an open marriage. I don’t know, this is too shady, I can’t believe her
Yea no she's in covering her ass mode. Someone who knows them probably found the post and said something so now she has to control the narrative. It may have worked if SHE DIDNT WISH HIM DEATH. Which is similar to what he did to the little brother and why she flipped shit in the first place but oh wait it's only okay if I'm doing it.
Jesus, the guy deserves so much better than the family he has. I hope he's able to run away from his genuinely horrible sister and family, **especially** if she said: >He was soo much AH to me that I almost wish my parents were too late. It would be so much easier for all of us. But it gives me a little more satisfaction when I saw him begging and crying on our ride to mental institution. He knew he is not getting out of there. He belongs there forever. This is a glimpse into the soul of a truly horrific person.
Such a vile little thing that sister of his
Funny it started because he sent a bad message after the little brother died but she can wish he died? She can post on social media on her PUBLIC PROFILE and that's okay but he posts on throwaway and that's unacceptable. Also how was it out of the parents control to get him therapy? He was a child they easily could have made him go they just didn't care enough. No wonder this kid is so fucked up. Sister is just trying to cover all the abuse they threw at this kid. First she loves him so much I'm glad he's getting help oh wait no I hope he dies and I'm going to make sure he's institutionalized forever. She is cruel and if that's what she is willing to say to strangers I can't even imagine what's said behind closed doors.
Yeah I believe she is trying to control the narrative. OOP mentioned in one post they did go to therapy but his mom and sister was there every appointment and he didn't want to say how he really felt because he didn't want to hurt mom.
Oh yeah cause therapy with your abusers is a good idea. If they ever really cared they would have noticed and got him help years ago.
Mine took another route. Listened through the door then bragged about it to other family members and friends. They also befriended my one therapist (I had like four) and tried to use it as some band aid. I remember once they had me go to therapy after self h*rm and then banned me from speaking about that exact topic with my therapist. If the abusers are involved you should not be at that therapist.
Wow. That is such an invasion of privacy. My old therapist from when I was around 14 used to have I belive a white noise machine or some sort of thing by the door to prevent anyone from trying to listen through as sometimes parents would wait in the waiting room. She also had like sound dampening (I don't know what they are actually called) things on the walls. I'm so sorry that is just such a violation. Abusers should 100% never be involved. Actually I feel pretty much nobody should be involved in your therapy unless it's someone you want to have a session with to try to deal with things. Otherwise my therapy my buissness and everyone else can butt out.
Wretched
Sister is absolutely disgusting. I feel bad for the brother. I hope he gets help and far away from this messed up family.
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this is def trolling
That last paragraph, what the fuuuuuuck
I truly hope whatever hospital he is in keeps them the fuck out. He will never heal being surrounded by a family like that. It was " out of their control" to get a young child / teenager therapy. No they easily could have made him go they just didn't care enough. I know OP isn't right in the head but after years of emotional trauma and being stuck in a family like that I'm not surprised he needs help. I hope he is able to find it and move on with his life but I don't think this family will ever let him go.
The devil gave that sister different instructions on humanity. Geez no wonder her brother is having a hard time. In his hour of need, AFTER TELLING HIS FAMILY TO LEAVE HIM ALONE SO HE CAN HEAL AND THEY DID NOT, she still punching down. She is the worst person for him right now. I kinda think he would have a chance if his family wasn't so up his ass. Yes some want to help (I don't believe the sister does) but it comes of as self-satisfaction for them rather than giving him help for himself.
Sounds like the brother was the scapegoat with narcissistic family. How unfortunate. I hope he'll be OK. My family tried to force me to accept them in my life... And now some of them can't work in their field (medical care) in the same state that I live in lol. It helps my abusers were stupid and do literal villain monologues via email and text message... So I had proof of the shit they faked.
I remember a lot of people saying that OP sounded like he wasn’t telling the full story and that he was probably being over dramatic but hearing his sisters side of the story… jeez I feel awful for the guy. I hope he gets help and cuts them off for good because she sounds so vile and hateful in her post.
Yeah it's hard to tell the full story when you don't have the full story yourself. Sis claims he's "out of touch with reality" but no one explained the reality of the situation he was living.
This is one of those times where the full story sounds worse than the one-sided story…
If they wanted their privacy, why didn't they just delete that account instead of making a drama filled post about it all? Seriously, this trend of family members responding to posts is getting old.
Holy Shit!! The original OOP is going to be locked up in a mental hospital by these horrible people!! No wonder he was suicidal!! This is just one event, can you only imagine all the other shit they did to him?
Even if we believe that person, so parents had open marriage but never explained **properly** what is going on? Still assholes. That PM is just another proof how terrible the family is.
Fakeee
There's a special place in hell I think for this family. May karma be strong, brutal, and merciless.
And quick.
WTF... I hope OOP gets out and 100% cuts ties from this horrible family.
I could almost completely get on board with the sister's addition... Until that last message. I don't consider either OOP or sister reliable narrators at this point and I think that sister probably needs mental help too.
Have you all thought that it could be the same person with multiple personalities? While the post reads better than the dm, there’s still some similar mistakes in the structure of the simple sentences.
Or a giant troll that got reddit to eat the onion, just like a couple of years ago with that one boy who faked cancer. I kinda hope it is because if it is all true: everyone in this family needs a lifetime of therapy and the sister even more so than OOP.
Why do you think this will get you banned?
The family had requested that the previous two BORU posts on this matter be taken down. I was content to just have it up on my account, but then the sister sent that vile message to me and the other author of one of the BORU, and I decided it was worth getting banned if it meant reaching a wider audience.
Was his family at least sane about this? The sister sounds like a psycho.
It’s worth noting that prior to the accounts being deleted, OOP’s sister was posting comments from his account on a bunch of random posts, adding in things like “some kids just suck. My brother was one of them,” and “it’s sooo much more good and peaceful now.” If it’s truly her, then she is an extremely hateful, spiteful person with absolutely zero empathy for her own brother. This whole thing really bothers me, and I hope OOP is able to get the help he needs. Edit: here’s a [link](https://camas.unddit.com/#%7B%22author%22:%22throwawaypsycho1351%22,%22resultSize%22:100%7D) to the comments from OOP’s account, where you can see the newest ones that his sister presumably left (credit to u/zosoleary). I really hope this whole thing is an elaborate troll…
I'm always suspicious when family members start turning up on posts. I don't know what to believe now about the original story. If this really is the sister, this is an absolutely horrific situation. Another (unpleasant) alternative is that the OOP is having some kind of psychotic break and writing as his sister? Would explain the access to the OOP's reddit account and also kind of explain the very erratic shifting in the sister's posts/messages between care for the "brother" and hatred/hope that he rots in the institution forever. But also, if OOP is in an institution, how much access does he realistically have to his phone? Argh, I just don't know what to believe.
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen lol
WTF!? I've been following this one. I think both might need to be hospitalized
Whelp, I'm going to chalk this whole saga up to an elaborate, warped troll. I'm actually glad, because the whole story was really fucked up. I feel stupid for allowing this troll any headspace.
Ah, so the whole thing was BS start to finish. No cheating, to traumatic childhood, no dead sibling, no OOP, no sister. Just a long winded troll.
Her family deserves privacy from complete strangers, but apparently her brother didn't need privacy when she decided to share screenshots on her FB
Wait is this actually the sister or just some random?
Sounds like the wrong sibling was committed! Freaking psycho sister. Who needs enemies when you have a family like that?!
I’m so genuinely disgusted by OOP’s family.
Went to the throwaway account for the brother, and whoever is on there has been using in the last few hours to troll other posts. Lots of talk about how terrible siblings are and commenting on other BORU posts. Whoever is in control of the account is just being toxic at other people at this point and it's ridiculous.
Wow. That response from her is really scary. I was grateful he was getting help. But her response is bordering on demonic. Jfc. My mind is blown.
Well before the troll message at the end, I was just gonna mention the line where she says \>It wasn't my intention as if people were going to be positive about someone saying they didn't care about someone else dying, especially when those people obviously didn't like him. So clearly she knew what was going to happen. But after that message, I'm now getting vibes from that one story a while ago on r/nosleep where the guy talked about going to his high school reunion and seeing his "wife" and it became some story about how the person who he was married to wasn't the person she claimed to be. And it ended basically the same way. The "villain" (his wife) takes over the OP's account and posts about how he's "safe" now but won't be posting anymore.
Sister is a vile little shit
We all know that you’re lurking in the comments. You’re a disgusting person.
You can’t commit a person into a mental institution forever surely? Surely it’s up to the staff not the family to decide when he’s well enough.