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AITA for distancing myself from my triplet sisters and family after years of feeling left out anyway?
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It's really telling that the parents will not even acknowledge their daughter's feelings after a lifetime of treating her like an “other.” Imagine gaslighting “Sarah” into thinking that she wasn't purposefully alienated from her triplet sisters “Zoe” and “Chloe."
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She is just treated her family the way that they treated her their whole life. She isn't being mean or nasty – she is simply matching their energy.
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19-year-old fraternal triplet intentionally distances herself from identical sisters after a lifetime of being left out, family refuses to accept their fault: "My sisters always called me their sister but each other twin"
Being a sibling to a set of twins can be incredibly alienating. It's not uncommon for the other sibling to feel left out. The twins themselves already have a close bond from being born and raised together. However, even friends and family have a tendency to treat pairs of twins like a single unit. Even if each twin is close to their other sibling, society will often just assume that the twins are closer and treat them as such, reaffirming that family dynamic. The singleton sibling might also feel like most of the attention goes towards the twins since they are considered to be quite rare.
In our story today, a 19-year-old girl is finally fed up with feeling left out and ignored by her family in favor of her twin sisters. To make matters worse, she is technically their triplet, too. However, since she is a fraternal twin who looks nothing like them, she gets treated like she is not a part of the group.