Okay fags, this is going to sound incredibly arrogant, but bear with me here. You'd need the additional perspective to understand my problem.My family, on my father's side is filled with people with wasted potential. They're all very smart hearts of gold, did really good academically and should have had a very successful careers by now. But every one of them, including my father made a few mistakes along the way which piled up and this combined with bad luck that our family seems to have a predisposition for completely ruined their future, and now they're barely scraping by. In contrast, my mother's family is largely successful, and my mother makes a decent amount of money working as an engineer. As a result, we, my brother and I grew up in a weird middle-income household. Now, somehow, I've always gotten what I wanted. Whether it be the high school of my choice, or an incredibly hard test, or the best college in the country, I've always made it in on my first try. I learned some basic skills like a couple languages and coding while in high school and within a year even started making decent money with those skills. My entire family on both sides basically worships me. I know deep down that it's mostly just my incredible luck, contrary to the rest of my family. On the other hand, my brother kind of fails at everything. He didn't make it to the high school he wanted to go to. After high school his result didn't qualify him for the college I went to, he tried applying to other good colleges and even the military but failed, and after that he tried colleges in other countries too. He failed, again. This was today. That marks three years of him being a NEET. My mom expects me to help or console him. But I have no idea how to. What the fuck am I even supposed to do from my position? I can't even imagine what it's like to be him.
>>33733834I won't read threads whose overly verbose beginning, and wall of text, means we're in a for loooong story. Get to the point next time.
>>33733834You can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped.Even if he wants to be helped, it needs to be done in a way where he feels like he is the one achieving stuff, not being led by the hand by others.Your parents should give him a ultimatum to have his stuff figured, but it's also important to provide him with every tool and every opportunity to do so.
>>33733957Not OP but I'd like to say that you should not go out proudly announcing your functional illiteracy to others. Doesn't sound cool as you think it does.
well i bet if everything didnt work out for you, you would feel pretty bad, maybe start there
>>33733834>What the fuck am I even supposed to do from my position?Help him get a job.
>>33733834I was in a similar situation but I'm much older and wiser now. YOU can't do anything but offer help. Your parents can try to fix the situation with some tough love but it might now work. HE needs to face reality and find the life he wants to live.It sounds like the safety net he has is stunting him from his future growth. Your mom can put pressure on him but not sure if it works.
