My Family is The 100 Acre Wood

Image via WikipediaI’m really loving The Experience Project. You can find stories about people’s lives, contribute your own, help others, or simply browse around for someone else in your same situation, and sympathize.

Here’s one that started out kind of funny, but makes me really wary of “Tiggers”…

UPDATE: This story is NOT about me, gang… your advice giving is nice, but I personally am not struggling with this issue – it’s a story I found on the site mentioned above. Seriously…

“About ten years ago we noticed that our family could be split up perfectly into the characters of the 100 Achre ((sic)sicWood. My Step-Father is Owl. My Mom is Eeyore, my baby sister is Piglet, my baby brother Tigger, my other Pooh. My eldest brother Rabbit and my self Kanga. Our personality traits match exactly with the traits of these animals too. Its insane.

My youngest brother is the one I am here to complain about. He is a manic bi-polar and he is very hard to live with. It is very hard to live with a manic. The grandiose trait is probably the most difficult thing in the world for me to cope with. The spending, I am almost always broke, can I get 50 bucks from you?, is a close runner up too though. He is up all hours, always out of a job, loud and obnoxious, rude, sexist, ignorant and in general hard to live with. That is before you get to the Tigger behavior!

I love him… as he is. It is living with him that I can’t do.”

So what would you advise for this person? I’m an only child, but I have many friends who have dealt with siblings and family issues, but I can’t speak for anyone really.

Personally, I’d probably try to help him get a job (not where I work, but by teaching him), teach him about finances/managing his money, stuff like that. He IS the baby brother, so it’s likely he’s just really young and really not sure about who he is or where he’s headed in life.

A little guidance is so much better than a handout… for all involved!

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