so i’m currently in Italy because my brother wanted to come here to go sailing. my brother usually gets whatever he wants, a new phone, the latest technology, clothes, all that. though i do get a thing or two every now and then which i’m very grateful that i am able to have some nice things, i feel like the attention is all on my brother, and i’m left out. i can tell who the favourite child is.

i’m not allowed to talk, because i will either get put down or made fun of. if i ever try and make a point, my parents tell me that i’m too young to have an opinion.

my parents always focus on my brother, and he always puts them down anyway. he will literally fat shame me and my mother in public, and talk shit about my father, yet they treat him like a king. if he coughs once, they’re all over him. i have some health problems, both mental and physical, and when i try to speak up about either one of them all they do is yell at me. it pisses me off, and it makes me feel alone.

whenever my family talks over me, i just whisper “alright then” and walk off, and they just start making fun of me and start to talk crap about me when i leave the room. i’m sick of this treatment.

like i said, i do get at least some recognition from my father. we went down to his second cousins farm a while back and my brother wanted to come, but my dad said that he gets too much and that i’m left behind, and he wanted to do something special for me, and it made me really happy i wanted to cry. i’m glad that i got some recognition and i wasn’t just put down.

aside from that, all they do is leave me out of everything. i don’t know if i’m overreacting or not, i’m probably just being selfish. can someone help?