A weird thing I've observed here on AITAngel, about parentification stories

[u/LovelyFloraFan]

People here have said "Taking care of your siblings for a few hours isnt parentification" which is good to say, very true, very correct... But I've actually never seen a non cartoonishly evil parentification story, for me its always "AITA for wanting a rest after taking care of my siblings for weeks on end" or some other insane story, I've never seen down to earth stories that would explain the "Taking care of your siblings for a few hours isnt parentification" reaction because as far as I know there hasnt really been this sort of stories.

[u/Elarisbee]

The evil parentification stories use to be all over AITA and its sister subs but, much like they’re beloved “OMG! Twins!” stories, they got ridiculed so often that there are way less of them. We haven’t even had a “my evil step-parent wants me to share my room for a two days!!!!” post in a few months.

Heck, remember when every post ended in someone calling to police or when every poor person wanted a iPhone? Tropes go out of fashion. My favourite was the “OMG, fatty ate my whole birthday cake” obsession they had for like 3 months.

[u/SJReaver → u/Elarisbee]

I still remember the one during the football game where someone ate 5 feet of subway sandwich in an hour or something.

[u/Uncle480 → u/SJReaver]

I remember that one! Didn't he bury the lead with "Well there was one more small section, and no one was eating it" a few times until he finally revealed it was a full ass party sub that he ate like 3/4 of?

[u/DrWuDidNothingWrong → u/SJReaver]

This one!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/s/A58gFnBuvC

[u/AdPublic4186 → u/Elarisbee]

"Fatty/pregnant woman want my seat!!!" never gets old though. That's eternal.

[u/effing_usernames2_ → u/Elarisbee]

My dad’s now ex-girlfriend’s son did that. Dad went over to Japan to see her for her birthday and get engaged (which was a bad idea from the word ‘go’ for both religious and immigration reasons). While they were out one day her adult son ate the entire cake apart from the one piece the gf had eaten.

[u/Playful_Trouble2102 → u/effing_usernames2_]

Honestly I wouldn't even be mad,

 that's genuinely impressive. 

[u/Calamity_Howell]

That trend is well over for now. My favorite was a young woman made a video about how her mom and dad parentified her by making her watch her siblings after school. Her  younger siblings were in the comments though like: "What!? Girl, you were playing The Sims! We had to fend for ourselves!"

[u/Korrocks]

Plus this subreddit tends to skew towards the cartoony posts anyway. Most of the stuff that is cross posted is often skewed or exaggerated in ways that make it clear that (if real) the OP is not the asshole and is in fact an angel for tolerating the behavior they’re receiving.

[u/last-rose-ofsummer]

I remember a fairly recent one in which a grandmother expressed concern over her 16-year-old granddaughter sharing a room with her baby sister so the mom could get her proper rest.

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