Current mood:

concerned

stuff
Warning, angst ahead. I recommend that you skip it, as this post serves mainly for me to unload.


So my cousin is officially a sociopath.

Background for those who haven't heard me talk about him before: He's seven months younger than me, very smart, and extremely unmotivated. He was offered many scholarships to college to play soccer, but lost the majority of them when he failed senior year and had to go to summer school in order to graduate from high school. Nevertheless, he still managed to retain one of them to a local community college and so he went the next fall -- and failed out within a semester. So his parents decided it was time for tough love and said they wouldn't pay for stuff and if he wanted things he'd have to get a job. Meanwhile, his sister spent the last year studying abroad in England. For some reason, Michael feels entitled to the same privileges.

Anyways, long story short, he has always been a bit antisocial. Now he's started stealing from everyone under the sun, including his employers. They recently came to the door and told my aunt that he stole a blackberry from them and was using it. Of course, Michael denied it, but my aunt found the cover to it in his room and his boss has the charges that Michael managed to pile up. My uncle even started sleeping with his wallet under his mattress, but my cousin has since found that. My cousin, Maryanne, returned from England two days ago, and her parents are worrying about her safety as they think Michael is harboring a lot of resentment towards her as well as them. Aunt Reen has been talking with a counselor about it, who told her that she should just exercise tough love and send him to jail now before she and Uncle Joe end up a headline, because the counselor feels Michael is building up to it. I think she's going to get the police involved today.

I realize that I probably shouldn't post stuff like this on lj, but I just needed to get it off my chest so I can alleviate a bit of the worry and concern that's been tainting the atmosphere here.


More bad news: I know I said that we should all get together sometime in May, but it looks like I'm not going to have enough time before I leave for Japan. I still have to go back to Athens on Friday, attend mom's graduation on Saturday, get crap for Japan, etc. Also, people are going to be repairing our deck all next week. Maybe we can try for a later date, preferably when Hayley's in town?