Gamer refuses to share their expensive laptop with a 10-year-old cousin, but when the entitled aunt demands access, she gets kicked out of the house: ‘I saved up for 2 years to build my own PC'

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  Little boy playing on a laptop computer that's not his with his mom defending him.

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• AITJ for KICKING my aunt out of my house because she demanded i give my gaming PC to her son?

  

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  Gamer computer setup with expensive lights and accessories.

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• She worked hard to keep her computer clean, safe, and functioning at the highest level. Although to some, a computer is just a computer. Some people think that laptops are just made for emails, Facebook, and nothing else, but to a gamer, who's researched for years about RAM, computer chips, programmable keyboard lights, graphics cards, and processors, a computer is more than just a digital messaging pigeon: It's a highly capable machine. 

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  Mom acting entitled because she didn't get her way.

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• If the kid needed to stare at a screen so badly, why wasn't the TV enough?

  The aunt clearly didn't respect the boundaries of their niece, because they started getting pushy and digging their heels in. Seems to me like this entire family has a problem with screen time, especially when a tantrum is bubbling up on the horizon. 

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  Little boy playing on a laptop computer that's not his.

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• Computers aren't a toy. If anyone remembers the days when a computer was so big it required an entire room to itself, you'll recall that computers aren't just some Game Boy you can fold up and throw in your backpack. They're designed to connect the world, enter games beyond your imagination, and to surf the web to high heck infinity. 

  Even the 10-year-old seemed to respect his cousin more than the aunt did. Or at least he was aware that the computer was more than just a toy.

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• Perhaps she just wanted to avoid a meltdown from her 10-year-old, but in the process, she turned into the beast herself. 

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