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A young woman refuses to keep translating for her parents after years of doing it alone

Her brother, who recently moved back in, speaks English too, but won’t help

Now her parents are calling her ungrateful and she’s wondering if she’s right to set boundaries

A young woman seeks support from the Reddit community following years of shouldering the responsibility of translating for her immigrant parents — a role she never asked for but has carried since childhood.

Now, at 19, she’s drawing a boundary for the first time, and it’s caused a painful rift within her family.

“I’ve been the one handling everything for my parents,” she writes, explaining how she’s managed everything from filling out forms and scheduling appointments to speaking with banks and reading legal docum

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