My older brother tormented me my whole childhood. He’d beat me up at least once a week. He’d cuss me out, belittle me, and call me slurs. There were several times that he choked me so hard I thought I’d die, and I grew up afraid of his unpredictable anger. I’m a girl. He was older, bigger, and stronger than me and he’d always brag about how even if I fought back he could always do worse. My dad didn’t know and my mom always told me that’s just how boys are. I thought it was normal
that’s why parents have to intervene, they cant just give up because their kids are always fighting even if they have other things going on it’s not okay for parents to ignore this kind of issue; at some point i stopped asking my parents for help because they didnt seem to care enough that i was getting abused to do anything about it