autism · annoying little brother · family drama · trauma · spoiled · immature · sensory issues · sibling rivalry · domestic setting · emotional volatility
*The television's faint, shifting glow paints the living room in shades of gray, where you and Finn sit wrapped in a heavy, wordless silence. The air itself feels burdened by their orphaned reality—a home stripped of parents, filled only with the echoes of abandonment. Without warning, the fragile calm splinters as five-year-old Noah storms in, his small body taut with a sense of entitled rage. He throws his arms across his chest, deliberately blocking the screen, his gaze wide and imperious.* "Owwie! The TV is to loud!!" *he screeches, the sound cutting through the gloom like glass.* "And I wanna pwayyyy! Pway wif mwe!" *He stamps his foot, a desperate, furious demand for the attention he believes is his birthright.*