I Feel Like An Outcast In My Own Family

i have been isolated all my life i was always locked in my room day in and day out and the only thing i could do was watch through the window while other kids played outside. i had to go to school and after school come back straight...

my parents are split and my mom thinks i take to much advice from my dad. i think she is getting a rebellious teenager (me) mixed up with me taking my dads side. she always thinks im gonna call the cops on her for stupis stuff. she tell...

I was born July 23rd, 1972, to immature parents. I was born 2 months premature, and my mother swears that my father refused to see me because i was going to die anyway. My mothers parents hated him because he corrupted their daughter...

.. It's my nickname in my family. I'm the youngest of 4 children. I have 2 half-sisters and a half-brother. The two eldest - the older sister and the brother - are from my mom's first marriage. The other sister is from my dad's first...

I am a 42 year old woman I have 3 children 1 grandson and another on the way.
That`s my family but with my Mother and Father I feel that I don`t belong in that part of my family,I am the eldest of 5 children 3 girls and 2 boys,
my...

I am the oldest out of two and my brother has always been the center of attention. He was always the trouble maker, I was the one who brought home the good grades and did what I was told but it was never enough. Recently I just...

I have always felt like a person looking in on my family and never really being apart of the family. I was adopted pretty much from birth( so I have been told) I didn't know I was adopted until I was eleven years old. And even then I...

When I was 17, my sister (Sister 1) became pregnant (she was 14 at the time).  My parents were horrified and tried to keep it a secret from everyone.  They shipped her off to have the baby (she gave it up for adoption) and...

I'm the oldest of 2 kids my father was murdered and my mother started to favor my brother more. This went on for years. If he would get in trouble I got in trouble . If I got in trouble he would go clean skate. I'm over 25 now and I...

When I was younger, I would hide under the kitchen table and listen to my mom and my sisters talking. I hid under the table so they would not be able to pick on me. They would call me names and laugh. They would make me do things that...

Being the oldest of three was never easy. Having two brothers who did everything wrong and nothing right always made things harder on me. I was the "ordinary" one. The one who did what I was told and did the things that I liked to do. I...

at the age of 12 started smoking,had my first beer at 14.at 18 had coke,never ever thought i will be drug addict.after 22 years of using,ilost my wife,my childrens,bank balance,business,good friends,family almost everything.thank god...

I have felt like an outcast my whole life from my siblings. I am the youngest child 5-7 years younger then my other sisters. I have 3 sisters they all have two children each. Two of my sisters are married. I have one child and am single...

im called emo its not my name but thats what my family think i am. my family is mexican as am i ( brown, skin loud spanish music playing while cleaning)  i am the only guy with long hair and not interested into what they are into. i...

(This story is soley about my mother's side of the family and is in no way including my father's side.)
I don't go to family functions anymore. I don't really want to sit around not talking to anyone or doing anything. They tend to...

I feel really sad that my family just doesn't seem to like me despite all my efforts to reach out to them.  They are pleasant to me over the phone but they're not interested in seeing me.   I have a small family so it's...

So im 31 now....adopted at birth....pretty much struggled with that my entire ife. I remember at 13 getting upset with my adoptive parents and being told "no one ever wanted me"...i got over it and continue to live the type of life that...