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A sibling is a lot easier to approach in a lot of subjects than a parent, I think. Sometimes this is what a person needs, and if their sibling is willing and able to meet them on that this is just a good personal family dynamic.

If OP was complaining I would be sympathetic.

As written, the story is just positive.

I have (too many) siblings both older and younger and, at least in my family's experience, sometimes parents need to see this in action before realizing their behavior/parenting isn't right.

Take my family as an example, I've been years when i was a teenager complaining about how they treated me and my nearest sisters, which failed miserably as they didn't change and we ended up pretty fucked up mentally and one of them migrated and doesn't want to come back even to the same country. Some years later, I tried basically parenting my 2 youngest brothers, but respecting certain topics where my (religious) parents are a bit too sensitive. The first one has been the most peaceful teenage man in our family by far, and my parents noticed how i was approaching him (something similar to OP, but pre-shut in? Basically tried giving him an ally when possible). They changed their ways only after seeing their previous failures and a more healthy result.

... Tho it's worth nothing they have 1 child left to raise and most people doesn't have enough kids to have a full damn hero's journey about parenting lol

Thats what i meant with “technically” a choice

The ironic part in this is that ecologically/footprint speaking the impact might be pretty positive compared to going out.

I'd say the stuff about having meltdowns and the way it's described points toward autism, particularly the Christmas incident, but it could be something else. I say this as someone on the spectrum myself, though far more able to function without support than the girl in the story.

It really is though! I stopped buying them after I realized that (never noticed it as a kid/teenager, not sure if my senses are more keen or if they fucked up the formula. Maybe a bit of both honestly)

To me it smells like someone took a nasty shit and wiped their ass with chocolate.

As a kid i always wondered why the chocolate in the Christmas choco calendars tasted like vomit.

Then I grew up and learned of American dairy practices.

I'd call it "luxury"

It's not expensive, but it's way more expensive than a chocolate bar of similar size from any of the "candy companies" people see at the corner store like Hershey's.

Can get a Hershey's bar that's ~2x the size of 1 Lindt ball for 1/4 the price at my corner store. Bulk discount scaling makes that even more wonky, I think 10 Hershey's bars was like 8 bucks at Walmart while the smaller bag of kind milk chocolate balls was 12

That's pretty much how I'd qualify it as well. It's a long shot from luxury, but it's decent as industrial brands go.

In the US it’s more expensive and tastes better than the US brand (Hershey’s).

Lemmy really is a bubble... Comments like this are really alienating me sometimes. Growing up not in abject poverty but also not financially secure does change my outlook on many things.

The multiple comments of beeing surprised that someone can find moderately expensive chocolate (which in itself is mostly a luxury good) luxurious really feels to me like people making fun of socioeconomically worse of others. It is probably not meant that way tho.

In my experience even really rich people don't think of themselves as rich. There is always someone with more wealth in their circle. What really separates the haves from the have nots is the things they take for granted. This can create friction with the people that either can afford these things but don't take them for granted or even worse the people that cannot afford it in the first place.

I do not have a solution for this but it affects almost everyone as there almost surely is someone less well of then them. Who'll think of one as rich.

That's the sister. Anon sounds like he has limited means. No need to make fun of them for being poor.

Some of us had to do a senior victory lap.

Butt?.