3 February 2012, 7:28 am
I'm from Detroit MI, and moved to a small town in Ohio 3 years ago. While I was getting settled into Ohio my boyfriend and I lived with his mother and his mentally handicapped 31 yr old brother that has down's syndrome. We lived with them for the first two years, and have recently bought our own house a year ago. First off, I didn't mooch. I paid rent, worked, and tried saving money so we could move out. While I lived with his mother and brother I started to dislike, and even grow some hatred toward him. Because of his disability he gets away with EVERYTHING. I would be responsible to fix meals for him every once in a while and if I didn't make what he wanted... his mother would call me and tell me to make what he wanted. While I would go to work he would go through my room and "clean" my personal belongings. Things in people's bedrooms are personal, and I was worrying about him seeing my dirty laundry... etc. I asked him hundreds of times to stop, until finally I put a lock on my bedroom door. His mom was very upset that I did that, but I felt that if I was paying rent I deserve my own privacy. He would also have all the electricity going at once. Computers, TVs, radios... you would think the house was party house during the day while everyone was at work. Numerous times my boyfriend and I had to pay the utility bill of 600 dollars or more because of all the electricity going on. On top of dealing with how loud the house was! His mom would be behind on the bill and thats why it would grow to a ridiculous amount until the power would be turned off. When I would turn off all the s h i t to save the electric bill that we had to pay a few times I would get scolded. Other annoying disgusting things he would do... he constantly had his hand down his pants and would eat chips/pretzels with that hand. He would even laugh and say "it's not my b o n e r hand!". He has an obsession with food and needs to be fed gourmet meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The amount he eats in a day should feed a normal person for an entire week. He also has an obsession with toilet paper and toothpaste. A roll of toilet paper lasts him one day. Not joking - he seriously goes through a roll every day. A tube of toothpaste lasts him a week. I am NOT exaggerating! He also pretends that he’s pregnant. He has another obsession with babies and how they are born. He thinks it's fascinating! He will wear his mom’s nightgown and put a basketball underneath it and pretend like hes giving birth while watching YouTube birth videos. I can't make this stuff up, people! A year later since we have bought our own house...his brother is disgusting and I'm still very angry at tons of issues I had to deal with while living there. Yesterday I went over to his moms to catch up on laundry (we use her washer and dryer) and asked if I could go pick up some pepsi for him because they are running low. I looked in their fridge and there was tons of other types of pop, just not what he wanted. If I was still living there, I would of been expected to go get pepsi. I have never expressed any of these feelings, but I'm wondering what other people think of them?... Read More »
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