Picking Favourites

*I know I may sound like a baby in the thread but I'm a sensitive person and I don't like how I'm treated by my parents.
I was inspired to make this thread when I saw this video by Onision: (I recommend you watch it before you read this)

Hey everyone,
Some of you on here struggle with your parents liking your other sibling(s) more than you and/or your parents mocking you for the way you look.
Ever since 6th grade, I've always been mocked for the way I looked by not just my peers, but my parents, too.
I wore shorts that didn't pass my fingertips (not booty shorts) and I was starting to go in my emo phase at that time, also.

Ever since I told my parents that I was in my pop-punk phase, they started mocking me that I was dying my hair and dressing all dark. They still let me dress from stores like Hot Topic and the thift store. I didn't (and i still dont) get how my parents think it's okay that mocking me will totally help my self confidence and my trust to them. Don't parents love kids?

Anyways, I started getting depressed so I did my best to ignore the negative comments from them and move on with my life but then I started seeing that my parents were giving so much more affection to my brother after I went in my phase. They let him do more things like go to Montreal with his friends or go camping in a fancy camper with his friends. But when my friends invited me, my parents refused and they wouldn't tell me why. Whenever I asked them, they'd always make up lies, like "you were being rude" when I was just standing up for myself because they were mocking me for my looks.

It wasn't just the phase, I had bad acne at the time, too. I'd wash my face everyday with my $5 products from the dollar store to wash my face and my mother always had Proactiv and she wouldn't let me use it at all. One day, I was washing my face at the same time as my mother and she told me "I never had bad skin, it's probably because you always cover that face up with that ugly makeup." You're probably thinking, you thought she said 'beautiful face'? Nope, ever since I was in my phase, she didn't call me beautiful, even once. But I was so fed up with her actions so I took matters into my own hands and simply told her "You mean my beautiful face? Isn't my acne beautiful? You call [my brother's name] handsome like everyday when I probably look twice as much better then him. So if you're going to call him good looking, then call me that, too." She thought for a second and grounded me. I went into my room and I started crying. I though she would've felt sorry for her actions but I guess not. That goes to show that I'm just some pillow that they can punch.

Now, I'm in 7th, I still get flagged by my parents but now I'm so used to it. But my mother does complement me when I look "normal".

But a few days ago, I got my braces fixed and I was eating popcorn when I wasn't supposed to. I got shit for it cause I broke a bracket, but, my brother once did the same thing but he got his fixed immediately.
Oh well.

Thanks for reading.

 

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