I am visiting my family and staying at my grandparents over seas for Christmas and i am 17 years old now and I am realising how different I am to lots if my close family and I feel so lonely. My uncle is always so condescending to me and my siblings and it’s so damn annoying. He drinks straight out of the god damn milk bottle and then shouts at me for not tidying up his dishes. I can’t even bother with him anymore. On Christmas Day he went out and got so drunk that he passed out on the sidewalk and we got a phone call at 2 am asking my dad to come pick him up. My younger sister is very afraid of drunk people as she was once mugged by a drunk person while she was out shopping so I was woken up and had to help her out.

But generally I just don’t see the need to go out drinking on a day that your supposed to spend with family. I feel trapped here with a family that just argue constantly and I cannot wait to get back home.

Every time I’m in a room with him he just shakes his head and tells me to go do something to help out when there is nothing else to do, maybe he just doesn’t want me around and uses chores as an excuse to get me away but this is my vacation too and I should get to spend it how I want, right?