Teen Tells Parents She Is 'Tired' of Translating for Them While 'Golden Child' Brother Acts 'Like He's Too Good' to Help

Since when does People magazine recycle content from Reddit, of all places? It truly is the End Times.

Good question, r1. I know People isn’t exactly the Atlantic Monthly, but still it’s reporting — did People do anything to verify any aspect of this story?

It’s REDDIT for fucks sake. The entire story could have been made up by some social media cosplayer.

Have any of you ever read any threads on AIO? 99% of them are clearly completely fabricated.

Reddit? Dafuck?

OP your post is worse than the stupid Soap Opera threads.

Does the People article ever identify the country where the immigrant parents are from?

Reddit is full of cunts who feel attacked by other people's expectations.

"My parents expect me to HELP with something. Is this a red flag from two narcs? Should I go no contact?"

R1 there are many articles out there ripping off reddit threads and youtube essays with no credit at all

It's not just that this girl doesn't want to do keep translating right now, she doesn't want to keep translating for the rest of her life. After nearly a decade, her parents should take some initiative to learn the language already.

Why haven't the parents learned English in all these years??

Her parents probably speak enough English to get by but lack confidence when it comes to complicated things like legal forms and doctor's appointments. There are certain situations where you really don't want to make a mistake because you misunderstood a word or two. My boyfriend acts as a translator for his dad in high-stakes situations and that's why I have little sympathy for this 19 year old.

19 year old girl = Barron

Parent needing translation = Vairst Letty

Legal docs = yearly revision of prenup

[quote]"My parents expect me to HELP with something. Is this a red flag from two narcs? Should I go no contact?"

Basically every Reddit post ever.

This was the case in my family (parents immigrants from Spain). It all fell to me because I'm an only child. I didn't mind mostly except for doing business on the phone. I'm anxious to begin with and customer service reps would hear a child's voice and, of course, were immediately put off. Some would ask for the parents right away. Others were patient and, if the issue was simple, I could get through it. When they asked for my parents, they'd get angry and tell me to tell them what I had already just said. The rep would insist on putting my parents on. I'd try to explain and each party would get more exasperated. It was just awful.

Same dynamic with my neighbor. She's Mexican and is the oldest so it fell to her. Next oldest took over when she went off to college. But three decades later she's primarily in charge of overseeing their healthcare even though sibs live in the area.

Talk about lazy plagiarizing. This story went from Reddit to People and now here? Why did you choose this boring topic, OP?

R14 I think it's clear that OP chose this topic because it's instinctual for DL'ers to want to want to identify one member of a conflict as a cunt pretty much immediately, and this story pits two sides against each other (Gen Z and immigrants) that OP feels would make for appealing rage-bait.

I think the girl's issue is that she's expected to do everything to help her parents while the brother does nothing.

As a former immigrant I side with the girl. The lazy ass parents never bothered to learn the language properly and now the girl who is probably chockfull of other obligations and needs to build her own life is saddled by the constant needs of her parents. Thankfully wasnt my case my parents knew english before even moving.

"Thankfully wasnt my case my parents knew english before even moving."

The only immigrants who that has ever been true of, with the exception of people from former Soviet Union (because their masses were so highly educated), most of the Commonwealth countries, and the Philippines, are rich ones. Kudos to your mom and dad for veing able to afford lessons.

R18 Did they do something wrong?

What an ungrateful little cooze!

They should have dumped her at an orphanage at birth!

Please r18. Many Europeans from countries where English is not the primary language speak fluent English no matter what their socioeconomic status is.

This never happened.

This is why English should be the official language of the US and immigrants should be forced to learn it. The rest of the Western world does this. A common language binds people together instead of isolating them.

What's with all the reposting of People articles lately?

Lately? We are GAY.

[quote] This is why English should be the official language of the US and immigrants should be forced to learn it.

Forced, how?

My question is what did the parents do before the kids were able to talk. Before they were literate and could read/write. Hell even after that stage the kids would still have to be at least 8 or 9 before they could functionally conduct business, correctly fill out forms etc. or did the kids move here as bi-lingual children. I don’t feel like reading the article.

An extremely high % of these kinds of Reddit posts are made up. Some by AI and some by attention seekers who spend most of their time online.

[Quote]This never happened.

What are you talking about? This happens ALL the time and is actually an extremely common shared experience for 1st generation Americans, Canadians, and Brits.

That’s nice r29, but people are hit by cars all the time, and so if I go on Reddit to post about that time I was hit by a car, is my story true because it “happens all the time?”

R30

Can't the parents just use Google translate and give their daughter a break already?

r31

(not really, but why do people do that?)

R32 How much luck have YOU had trying to teach your parents new forms of technology? Because after nearly a decade, I still can't get my parents to understand how group texts work or how not to hold the phone up to their nostril when using FaceTime.

R18 my dad grew up in Argentina but in an english speaking household (his family was British, and english was his 1st language) My mom studied english in college and was an english teacher. Regardless, the 1st things those parents should have done is taking english lessons. If they couldnt afford it, there are volunteers that teach. Or they could have gotten their kids to teach them.

R33, they want to eat their cake and have it too.

They block someone they disagree with, but they’re still dying to see what was said.

R33 Because I had R31 blocked for some reason or another but was curious to see what they said to me in their mention. This helped me confirm why I had them blocked in the first place (cunt).

r37 Thanks! I actually had seen it before but was confused.

Yes, silly selfish bitches will regularly do that, r38. They don’t care how annoying it is to the rest of us. They only care about what they want.

My poor cousin was around 10 when he started being his Cuban parents translator. They both lived here for decades and died,and never attempted to speak english. Not a problem in Miami,kind of a big one in N Fla . He was saddled with his parents until the day they died. They consumed his whole life. I always felt great pity for him. I would translate for my grandmother but she understood english just fine and spoke it albeit with a heavy accent . I do love i learned spanish because of her ,its come in handy a few times over life. Ive forgotten much now because I havent really spoken it in years.

R31 Die in a grease fire. I’m not r30 but I haven’t seen some cunt do that in a while. Own the fact that you block and don’t cheat.

R39 Yes, and those people are narcs! We all need to go no contact with these fuckers.

This reminds me of that episode of "True Life" I'm supporting my parents. One of them was an maybe 18 year old Hispanic chick whose parents didn't speak English or work and just sat around waiting for her to get home and do stuff for them.

[quote]Have any of you ever read any threads on AIO? 99% of them are clearly completely fabricated.

[quote]OP your post is worse than the stupid Soap Opera threads.

Whether fabricated or not, this story is so AIO/AITA.

I have been reading Reddit for a few months, and recently deleted AITA and AIO and whatever other AI threads that I was following. I couldn't stand reading about this constant conflicts. One thought I had was what a minefield these subs were for soap opera headwriters. I couldn't come up with all this conflict on my own. The worst were the psychobitchcunt sisters of the brides, and the slightly less horrible mothers-in-law.

So now, I mostly look at Reddit for the various cat threads. Occasionally, an interesting face + penis combo will pop up in my feed.

R43 As a gay man with four married sisters, I can assure you, the sister-of-the-bride psychodramas are as real and as exhausting as those posts claim. If I'm being honest, so are the gay-brother-of-the-bride ones.

I also had to cull the AITA/AIO subs from my reddit feed, r43. I especially hated questions with screenshots of really mean and lengthy text conversations. That stuff made my skin crawl, like I was trapped in their shitty relationship for a minute. That stuff shouldn't be shared with the world, imo.

Now the feed is just movies, cars and shirtless men.

This would be really annoying and why can’t her parents learn English?

Idk but anytime I run into a particularly cunt-y or assholey post on reddit, I go to the persons post history and there's always pages upon pages of posts on those sites. Similar thing happens with fauxmoi, popculture chat and pics subreddits.

The meanest and dumbest people in the gay subs also post in the Drag Race subs and in subs dedicated to shows like Scandal and The Vampire Dairies.

I blocked AIO/AITA but other conflict subs pop up like heads on a hydra