Is it normal for me to hate my older brother?

Rrg, this is insane. But I need to know.
Is it normal to really hate my brother? There are numerous reasons..

1) I am practical and he is not.
It took him THREE WEEKS to correctly full out ONE job application form. it then took him ANOTHER three weeks to correctly fill out his STUDENT FUNDING form. He leaves everything to the last minute and is constantly asking if strangers can come and live in our house. Oh, it's okay, they're /friends/ of his. They're still strangers who we have never met before!!

2) I'm curvy, and he is stick thin.
I am female and have a wide hourglass figure (measurements being, in inches, 41-36-45). He is completely stick thin and according to his BMI, anorexic and dangerously underweight. He eats like a horse and completely cleans out the fridge when he comes home! He eats more than I do. It's probably just to do with his metabolism but he lazes around just as much as I do.

3) I try to be polite and kind, he is blatantly arrogant.
He was a real dick to my boyfriend when he last visited (we have since broke up, but this was nothing to do with my brother) and made fun of my boyfriend because he is only slightly taller than me. When walking around a public attraction, he reads out all signs in a loud voice, always because he speaks before thinking. It drove both my and my boyfriend insane. Also, he often makes no attempt to be polite to (for example) shop assistants who are just doing their job.

4) Often he makes inappropriate remarks about peoples physical attributes.
As mentioned before, I am curvy and he is not; however, my mother, he and I were discussing members of the public who would be classed as 'grossly obese' and he made a cutting remark about my own size and weight. He seems to speak before thinking and this infuriates my father often, and my brother has been shouted at before now.

5)He doesn't seem to realize he does all these things!
He doesn't realize what he's like or how much of an ass he is. It's so annoying because I get angry at him (I am not known for patience) and he doesn't seem to know what he's done wrong.

He is very intelligent and has achieved good marks in university and college, but he has no sense of what he's like or how he behaves. It drives me insane and for the most part he is away from home, but when he is home, his behavior is terrible.
Sometimes I feel I hate him so much I wish I were an only child, or that someone else was my brother instead of him.
I worry about my own well-being, and if he has affected me in any way by not being a positive influence in my life. All he's done for me is show me what I don't want to become - lazy, mainly intoxicated, and arrogant.

is this normal, or am I weird?

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Based on 103 votes (81 yes)
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Comments ( 7 )
  • Gtown

    Have you ever tried talking to him about it? If not I think you should. I video taped my little brother one time to show him how bad he acted and was shocked upon watching it and has straightened out.

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  • musnica

    have you ever tried to manipulate him? it doesn't matter how someone is smart, everyone has a weak point. make fun of him how he has no friends or no girlfriend or no clue of life or something. show that YOU are stronger. nothing's wrong if you hate your brother, you're not the only one :)

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  • TalkAndTouch

    Look. It could be worse. One of my Ex was ABUSED by her older (adopted) brother.

    I like the idea of video taping him then showing it later.

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  • aimblv

    Without something to hate mankind would find have to find something else to control people with and our economy would crash

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  • Swanson

    You got to be kidding me?

    It'd be fucking odd not to hate your brother. Important thing is your family. You may hate his guts but you still have to love him.

    1. Thats his problem and if you don't like his friends staying tell them to fuck off

    2. Either learn how to give some abuse back or lose some weight and take away the stick hes beating you with.

    3. Your bigger than him right? Smack him about a bit that will shut him up.

    4. See 2 and 3

    5. Keep your fingers crossed as he gets older he will mature. This is what happen with me and my brother as we got older. We now get along quite well (and we used to put eachother into hospital when we got into fights). Good luck.

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    • thisuseridsucks

      Love is such a strong word to use when speaking in terms of perceived family obligations. Sure, some times you may have to temporarily reside with a family member, but in no means does it require you to love them. Love, just as respect, is earned. Simply sharing the same genetic material as another person is not enough reason to devote such a thing as love to them if the person in question has proven his/herself a horrid, trite little shit.

      So, no, Author, it is not weird for you to hate your brother. Hate him all you want because as William Hazlitt once said, "Without something to hate, man should lose the very spring of thought and action."

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  • Yeah - well maybe you should separate yourself from him a bit more emotionally - it is not your job to fix him. He sounds pretty annoying but just seems he has more growing up to do. So no use in you getting all frustrated and personalizing so much of it.

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