My mother starved me in my teenage years because she didn't want to deal with the "bottomless pit" in my stomach. Because of this I was 120 lbs at 18 years old, my arms were thinner (and still are at 19 and 135) thinner than 12 year old girls. Yes, I checked.
When my best friend died she didn't allow me to go to his funeral out of spite of something I had done a week prior. (Going to his bodily viewing when she told me not to)
I have an older sister who always fucked with me and my mother took her side every time, I got in trouble constantly for things she did and blamed on me and even when I proved it wrong my mother still would punish both of us.
I grew up with a woman who hated my very being because 1. I look alot like my father and 2. Because she just hates all men, constantly talked about how were all pigs (even though she had a new boyfriend every week, and even once broke up with this really cool dude because she saw porn on his browsing history.)
I grew up around constant backstabbing, manipulation, lies and 2 sluts who hated my very being, stole things from me on a regular basis, and here you are telling me that people like me are "spoiled brats".
Also I would have been beaten on a regular basis if it weren't for the fact that the few times my sister tried I defended myself. Every time she hit me I hit her back, 1 for 1. When my mom got home she screamed at me for hitting her, because I am a man and should have just taken it apparantly.
Because of all this I was an antisocial loner at school, and have a few mental issues that I keep in check.
Yes I dropped out, yes I ran away multiple times but came back before I starved to death, yes I considered suicide almost daily, did drugs, and almost went to jail several times.
She denied my father visitation regularly, made me hate him through lies, collected child support when she made more than he did, and constantly took him to court for stupid shit. Also the reason they got divorced was he caught her cheating so she filed for divorce, made up some shit about him beating her and all other kinds of shit. I've seen the court videos, there's so many fucking lies. I'm thinking of taking her to court to get him some of his money back to him.
There's so many things I could tell you but I don't want to make 20 full posts worth of shit, so I threw key points in there.
Tl;Dr I grew up in a single mom environment and it was very bad for my mental health, and you're wrong about us being spoiled brats.