Least Valuable Human Being

In my family, the concern for me was whether or not I could be a caregiver to my autistic brother. That is what made me valuable. Now that he is in a group home; concern for me has ceased. I hate that I didn't pick up on where I had fit in the family dynamic earlier. I would have been more selfish, more stereotypically masculine. Caregiving is sacrifice. You don't get anything out of it in return except a lower lifetime wealth accumulation. That is why it is not respected as a profession (it's not where the money is at). I was a fool.