Lecture or A Way To Give Me Trauma?
The story
Heyo, so before you dive into this story I'm letting you know that my older sister is diagnosed as severely depressed and also manipulative towards me (She was 17 years old while I was 13 years old) and I dont even know how or even why she wants me to follow her to do it but past trauma caused me to do so. (I live in southeast asia if you're a bit confused with the word senior highschool)
So what i was about to talk about is how we got almost arrested while I was in highschool on the other hand she's at senior highschool, During our semester break she asked me if I wanted to go shopping with her (which isn't the exact reason actually) I of course agreed to go because I wasn't able to leave home anytime I want, We rode a tricycle on our way there and I noticed she has a big bag with her but I shrugged it off.
After me and her entered the grocery shop, I didn't notice she started to steal things from the shelf and putting it inside her big bag, I thought we were just gonna buy things instead of putting items in a bag (I was really oblivious to her actions back then) , when me and her arrived at the entrance the guard asked to check her bag and my sister told me she forgot her phone at a shelf, I followed after her not knowing what's happening since I haven't known what my sister had done and the next thing I knew is that me and my sister got grabbed by a guard to get interrogated after that our mom got called over to pay and pick us up. When we arrived back home I was immediately scared of facing my parents since me and my sister did a crime and they didn't know that was gonna be the outcome of our shopping. I always knew my dad as someone really strict and a bit abusive, so I needed to avoid him so bad because I would cry immediately the moment I see him being mad at me. My sister went straight to our shared bedroom, acting mad or normal after putting the family in debt.
Was that supposed to lecture me to not steal or to just inflict more pain by giving me trauma?? I want to see other people's perspective about my story
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it's really tough when you're caught up in something you didn't even realize was happening. it sounds like your sister's influence on your actions wasn't something you fully understood at the time, especially given her manipulative tendencies and your age difference. 😕 i can't imagine how scary it must've been to face the guards and eventually your parents after what happened. my younger cousin once got stuck in a similar situation with his older brother, who also had a habit of involving him in things without explaining them properly. have you and your sister talked about that day since then? i'm curious if she ever acknowledged her part in all of this or tried to explain why she did what she did.
it's really messed up how your sister dragged you into that situation without a clue of what was going on, and her manipulative behavior definitely didn't help in keeping things honest.