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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal
This thread makes me worried for my brother.
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Your brother doesn't sound as bad as my cousin, but to be honest I think he might be catching up. My aunt and uncle (actually more my uncle and my grandmother) kept enabling him and supporting him for about 15 years after he started acting up like this. He just came to expect everything was going to be handed to him on a silver plate no matter how much deep doo-doo he got himself into - money, clothing, a roof over his head if he needed it, odd jobs, someone to bail him out of jail/pay legal fees, etc, and all the while he was thinking he could just keep floating along like he was, because he expected that safety net to catch him when he fell off the wagon.
Then they just cut off the financial support and forced him to figure things out for himself (yeah at like age 30). It's less stress on his siblings and parents.