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The story, posted on an anonymous discussion forum, left Redditors deeply excited – with many providing heartfelt recommendations.

While the initial story offered to readers focused on OP’s half-sister (aka the “authentic poster”), many commenters have pointed out that the real challenge will be the boy’s mother.

Read on to see how it all worked.

The boy started the post by giving some basic information.

“When I (16m) was a child, my father bought me a stuffed Simba,” he explained. “My dad really liked The Lion King and it was a film he introduced me to at an early age and one we shared a love for.”

“I used to decorate like Simba for Halloween and I ate Simba muffins for years,” OP continued. “Simba was my favorite toy and always made me think of my father. He died when I was 8.”

Then the boy’s mother remarried soon after.

“My mother remarried less than a year later to Nick. Nick had a daughter when he and my mother got married. She didn’t see her mom, so we’ve lived together 100% of the time since my mom and Nick got married.

Although OP never considered his stepfather to be a real father to him, his new stepsister was, in the boy’s words, “obsessed with me.”

“I’m a little more put together,” he admitted. “She will be cute or sweet or whatever, sometimes it will annoy me when we are called brothers and she calls Nick ‘our father’ and correcting her often means getting scolded by my mom and Nick because they said that she loves me and wants to connect us with more things that I should admire.

He also described his half-sister getting upset when he goes “to see my grandparents or my aunt or uncle and he or she is left behind.”

“My grandparents and my uncles are my paternal family, so my half-sister is not associated with them and I don’t want to bring her with me because I barely get to see my family anyway,” he explained. “My mother inspired me before to bring her alongside and show that she is my real sister. But I don’t think of her that way and never have, even though I know she only thinks of me as her brother.

Then came the real reason OP took to Reddit to speak out.

“I say all this because it might be relevant here,” he wrote. “I don’t sleep with my stuffy Simba anymore however I keep him on a shelf near my bed so I can see him when I’m in bed and he’s nearby. I also got a clear case for him so I can still see him but he’s clean and stuff. My stepsister has wanted this for months.”

The boy’s need to keep this only memory of his father was not honored.

“Mom and Nick took Simba off the shelf and out of the field to introduce him to her and I needed to take him again,” he recalled. “I asked mom and Nick to respect my no. They’re saying I should share it and that my stepsister would sleep with it instead of leaving it on a shelf. They don’t care that it’s something I value from their father.”

“Then one day my stepsister was really getting on my nerves about it and she kept begging me to let her keep Simba and she would take good care of him and I could see him any time I wanted. I told her no I don’t want her to have it, it’s special to me because my dad bought it and my dad is gone. She mentioned that if ‘our father’ bought it, we should always share. I said Nick is not my father, my father died and he bought Simba for me and I want to keep him just for myself. She got upset and asked if I didn’t want her to have him and I said yes, I don’t want her to have Simba. She was devastated and my mom and Nick were furious and it got worse when she said I would be mad if she had Simba again.

OP went on to note, “I had to disguise Simba away from everyone because of this, which made me really resentful of all three of them, even though my half-sister was younger and probably not responsible. But I hate not seeing him every day.”

“My mom and Nick think it was wrong to immediately address my half-sister about this,” he concluded, and then asked, “AITA (am I the idiot)?”

Of course, the boy only got support on the platform. Among the sympathetic responses were lots of advice and observations about her family dynamics.

The top-rated comment assured OP that he wasn’t the famous idiot: “Your stepsister has to learn that she can’t have everything she needs. But her mother and (stepfather) are the real AHoles!! Take Simba to his father’s house for safe preservation or ensure that his mother and SD will give Simba to his half-sister if you are not home.

“That’s what I needed to do to cover for Simba,” the boy replied. “But it makes me so angry and resentful that I have to do this.”

He then shared the emotional toll: “I’ve had Simba since I was a kid and never having him where I can see him is so hard. I also feel like I lost my father again.

The simple suggestion to follow was: “Wouldn’t it be possible if you could spend some time with your father’s family? For example, you tell your mom and stepdad that they just need to accept your limits and your no means no. And if they can’t, you progress to your grandparents/aunt.”

“I need it, especially now,” OP said in response. “I would like to live with my grandparents to escape the anger I feel towards my mother. But I know she wouldn’t let me go so easily.”

“What else is going on here?” Another curious Redditor asked. “How does your mother deal with you outside of this example? How does she deal with her ongoing pain? Do you feel like you have a safe home to talk to her about her feelings, her father, etc., outside of the half-sister issues? It’s him? How does he relate to you as his stepson, or is he just dealing with the fact that you need someone to live in the house and expects you to meet his daughter’s needs?

“I can’t talk to my mother about my father,” the boy said in response. “Their relationship was not good in the last two years of his life. I remember the stress and I remember they weren’t even in the same room. Dad had his room and mom had hers. I think that’s why she found it very easy to maneuver. In fact, they may have been separated in every way but legally by then. In fact, I was too young to know. I simply keep in mind that it wasn’t good. And my mother wouldn’t like to talk about him. She also wouldn’t want to hear how much I miss my dad or how I don’t want Nick to be my ‘new dad’. She even told me to my face that I should grow up and make my half-sister feel loved and happy when I no longer define my half-sister with my paternal family.

“Nick is simply my mother’s husband,” OP added. “He is not my mother or my father. In fact, he wouldn’t try to be, although he tries to declare it for his daughter’s sake.

These responses left Redditors up in arms, eager to defend and defend the boy.

“It seems your real problem is not your half-sister, but your mother, who will not allow you to remember, recognize or mourn your father,” noted one commenter.

“You will have the right to tell them that you do not intend to neglect your father and that they must recognize that the things your father gave you are specific to you, always will be, and those specific matters are off limits to you. your half-sister,” they continued to advise. “Your parents have no right to ‘take ownership’ of you when you resist being told to call Nick your father. You can say ‘I have the right to remember my father’ or ‘I have the right to grieve’.

Elsewhere, OP said in response to these reactions: “I’ve tried talking to my mom about this before. She really only cares about what she thinks is best for her and my stepsister. Like she wanted things to be a safe method and she wanted my stepsister to be happy and feel loved. She didn’t listen to me and Nick only cares about my mother and her daughter.”

When a concerned commenter asked if they could heal together to resolve this, the boy responded, “My mother wouldn’t consider the solution.”

What would you advise the boy to do?