Teen ‘Severely Injured' Her Leg and Her Aunt Showed Everyone the Pictures. Now, the Aunt Is Mad the Teen Confronted Her
The teen said that she firmly confronted her aunt about it, and her aunt has been acting like 'the victim' ever since
The girl asked fellow Redditors who was in the wrongA teen said her aunt is acting 'weird' after she called her out for sharing photos without her consent — and she's now wondering who's at fault.
The 15-year-old girl explained on Reddit's 'Am I the A------' forum that she recently had a 'pretty bad accident' on a family vacation and 'severely injured' her leg.
She said that her mother took pictures of the injury while doctors were cleaning the wounds and sent the photos to her aunt to help 'calm her down,' as her aunt was in a 'panic' and was imagining something 'way worse.'
The original poster (OP) then said her aunt shared the photos with their entire extended family chat and jokingly wrote, 'Vacation scars.'
'I saw it almost immediately, and I was PISSED,' the OP said.
She added, 'I asked her to delete them. She tried justifying it by saying everyone already knew, it was just the family group chat and that it wasn't a matter of privacy since it was just my leg.'
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The Redditor then said she 'went off' on her aunt in anger, calling her actions 'insensitive' and accusing her of being 'an attention seeker.' The OP said that in the ensuing days, her aunt has begun to act 'like she was the victim.'
'She's whining about how we're all 'growing up too much' and don't value or love her anymore,' she said, adding that her grandparents have since taken her aunt's side.
'I told my mom about this later, and she said it was a generation gap thing. Plus, in our culture, respecting elders (a.k.a. being submissive AF and never questioning them) is treated like the ultimate virtue,' she added.
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The OP says that her aunt's behavior has been 'off' since the whole exchange and that she has been communicating less with both herself and her mom since the incident.
'Every interaction with her is just super weird now,' the OP said at the end of her post, adding, 'So, AITA [am I the a------]?'
Commenters were quick to assure the OP that she had every right to feel irked at her aunt for sharing private photos of her injury.
'NTA [not the a------],' one person said. 'Your aunt is proving you right by acting like a petulant child because she wasn't allowed to do whatever she wanted. It is an issue of privacy, and it isn't your aunt's place to share what happened to you.'
'NTA,' added someone else. 'Your private medical problems are just that: private. You are the only one who has the right to share, or allow them to be shared, with anyone else.'
Someone else said, 'NTA. Sharing injury pictures is rude to the person whose privacy was violated and to anybody who didn't want to see a gross injury picture that day. Her being butthurt about not being allowed to post that stuff wherever she feels like is a her problem, not a you problem.'
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