What is Real Ever since I was younger, I knew my brother’s reality was different from mine. As I got older I listened to people tell stories of events I was there for and I realized they just remembered them differently. My best friend’s nickname is Noodle. She got it the day we first met, but no one quite remembers how she got that nickname. My friend Brianna insists that she gave it to her. I am fairly sure my friend gave it to herself, because she has a common name and three other people in our group at camp had the same name. My friend Lorraine has a story that we all just sort of started calling her that because she kept dropping things because her arms were like noodles. Everyone has a different reality. You can get hints of what their
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He has started to insist my father started to hit him after my father 's accident, which happened during the same period as we moved into the same neighborhood that my brother remembers all this happening in. Of course, this never would have happened to me because I was never in trouble, so I would not remember it. He states two instances. The first my father and brother got into a fight, after my brother got into trouble. They went into my brother’s room where the fight escalated and my brother says he was hit. I was in the next room when this happened. I remember the yelling, but my father calmed down and he did spank my brother. However, my brother knows the difference and that is not what happened. The second is a time I was not home, my father and brother got into a fight; my dad started breaking things, tiles on the outside table, and then hit my brother. However, none of the things he said was broken, ever broke. My father broke a chair because he was so angry but never hit my brother. My brother is very open about this abuse, which sets off a big flag for me and my friends. I have some friends who have been abused by family members and they are never open about it. They would never tell a whole group of people, some whom they barely even know. This makes him impossible to believe though part of me still want to believe
He has started to insist my father started to hit him after my father 's accident, which happened during the same period as we moved into the same neighborhood that my brother remembers all this happening in. Of course, this never would have happened to me because I was never in trouble, so I would not remember it. He states two instances. The first my father and brother got into a fight, after my brother got into trouble. They went into my brother’s room where the fight escalated and my brother says he was hit. I was in the next room when this happened. I remember the yelling, but my father calmed down and he did spank my brother. However, my brother knows the difference and that is not what happened. The second is a time I was not home, my father and brother got into a fight; my dad started breaking things, tiles on the outside table, and then hit my brother. However, none of the things he said was broken, ever broke. My father broke a chair because he was so angry but never hit my brother. My brother is very open about this abuse, which sets off a big flag for me and my friends. I have some friends who have been abused by family members and they are never open about it. They would never tell a whole group of people, some whom they barely even know. This makes him impossible to believe though part of me still want to believe