Teen cuts ties with adoptive parents after they skip graduation to buy $350 ‘rare’ Labubu doll for biological daughter

An 18-year-old has tak­en to social media to ask whether she was cor­rect to cut ties with her adop­tive par­ents after they chose to buy a Labubu doll for their bio­log­i­cal daugh­ter instead of com­ing to her grad­u­a­tion.

Shar­ing her sto­ry on Reddit’s Am I the A**holeforum, the teen asked whether she was wrong to walk away from her fam­i­ly.

But what unfold­ed sparked a wave of sup­port — and out­rage — from read­ers who agreed she had every right to be hurt.

Labubu dolls are all the rage right now. Cred­it: VCG / Get­ty 

Accord­ing to the anony­mous post, her adop­tive par­ents strug­gled with fer­til­i­ty before adopt­ing her as a baby. But eight years lat­er, they had a “mir­a­cle” bio­log­i­cal child, whom she refers to as “Princess,” now 10 years old.

“Princess was spoiled and clear­ly the favorite. She nev­er got in trou­ble, was always right, got WHATEVER she want­ed and act­ed HOWEVER she want­ed,” she wrote.

While she was nev­er direct­ly mis­treat­ed, the girl said she always noticed the imbal­ance in atten­tion and gifts. “If I got one toy, Princess got five. It sucked, I was jeal­ous, and I got in trou­ble for it,” she added.

Things report­ed­ly wors­ened when Princess turned six and began “real­iz­ing how much she could get away with.”

In response, the teen start­ed spend­ing more time away from home. “Now I have a car and a boyfriend (since sopho­more year). I stay with him a lot and his fam­i­ly loves me so I’m bare­ly home, maybe 24 hours at most week­ly

The break­ing point came on her grad­u­a­tion day — “one of the few things I asked my par­ents to come to,” she said. But once again, Princess and her par­ents’ pri­or­i­ties got in the way

See her cur­rent obses­sion are these doll plush key­chains called Labubus, she col­lects them and that spe­cif­ic day, she found this super rare one for sale in our city,” the teen explained.

Instead of wait­ing to pur­chase the $350 col­lectible the next day, her par­ents skipped her grad­u­a­tion to get the toy. “Then they showed up so late, our caps were already being tossed.”

The doll was report­ed­ly worth $350. Cred­it: Medi­aNews Group/Orange Coun­ty Reg­is­ter via Get­ty Images 

Her own grad­u­a­tion gift was $150, and, when she ignored their mes­sages after­ward, they tried to make it right with more cash.

“My par­ents called, texted, apol­o­gized, even came over and begged me to for­give them, worst part of it all, they think it’s the mon­ey and sent me anoth­er hun­dred dol­lars. I refused to talk to them,” she wrote.

The sit­u­a­tion esca­lat­ed quick­ly. Her par­ents began threat­en­ing to report her as miss­ing or a run­away and said they would con­tact her future col­lege.

“They are threat­en­ing to report me as missing/ a run­away and con­tact my future col­lege if I don’t go back home.”

As her post gained trac­tion, Red­dit users ral­lied behind her.

“Sib­ling favoritism is so crazy to me and I think it’s so unfair to the one being treat­ed poor­ly,” one user com­ment­ed. “The fact that they only thought it was about the mon­ey speaks high vol­umes about their char­ac­ter.”

Anoth­er user shared: “Been there, yo. Peo­ple don’t real­ize how much the ‘lit­tle things’ build up over time. You don’t have to accept the bare min­i­mum just ‘cause it’s com­ing from fam­i­ly. You deserve effort, too.”

A third user got straight to the point: “They pri­or­i­tized a toy over your grad­u­a­tion.”