This is odd...

[Carolyn]

I've been out for about a year and five months and over this long time frame I noticed something about my relationships with my siblings. I am there elder, my sister is 18, my brother 15. Before I was out my brother and I were close, one could say we were best friends, however my sister and I weren't close at all. Now however it's revised. Every chance my brother gets he calls me ->-bleeped-<-, flamer, ect. Even if I just say hi to him, but my sister doesn't, though she did have a hard time with it when I came out. My sister and I get along perfectly fine now, but before we always fought. I find is interesting. Is it because I am her older sister now or something else?
Thanks for your time. 

[Autumn]

Your brother's a little immature ->-bleeped-<- who has a lot of growing up to do (he's 15 after all.)

Male culture, which he's in the prime age to be trying to integrate into, labels anything other than straight up manly straight male the worst thing on the planet and a target of ridicule.

It's unfortunately pretty common.

Your parents haven't beaten him enough growing up, obviously, to teach him respect. So you should do it for them. 

[Carolyn]

Your brother's a little immature ->-bleeped-<- who has a lot of growing up to do (he's 15 after all.)

That's putting it nicely

Your parents haven't beaten him enough growing up, obviously, to teach him respect. So you should do it for them. 

I want to so much, just to put his little ass under my heels would be great, but ails I have to be the adult who keeps telling him to EDUCATE himself before he releases any more monkey fesses from his mouth.
On a side note, I'm the one that got beaten growing up, which sucks

[gennee]

Give him time. I was crazy and stupid when I was fifteen.

Gennee

[am529]

I agree with Gennee. Most kids seem to be pretty immature at that age, maybe he'll get over it when he gets older (although it seems to me like most guys are still pretty immature even in their 20's).

[Danielle M]

Hi, your brother has a lot to deal with, first he may be in his eyes not yours, loosing a brother(strong bond thing), and a role model, for which he will have a lot of confusion and resentment. If his peers know about you then he is also going to be getting an extreem lot of pressure from them, pressure you cannot imagine, He will then have to support his own "male persona" in a strong way "an over compensation' to maintain his own integrity and position in his own peer circles, this would mainly be in strong rejection of your transition, Over time and peer change along with a bit more maturity this will diminish, maybe not completely because of the first point, but he will 'lighten' up over time but give him heaps of it....
If you love him as a brother and he knows this, things should work out eventually.

[NeonStars]

me and my siblings are just the same as we where befor me and my brother get on but he anoys me but hes onley 10, and me and my sister are like best friends even tho there is a 13 year age gap between me and her it dosin really fell like that cos she acts younger then 27 and i act older then 16 =]

[kalina]

I've been out for about a year and five months and over this long time frame I noticed something about my relationships with my siblings. I am there elder, my sister is 18, my brother 15. Before I was out my brother and I were close, one could say we were best friends, however my sister and I weren't close at all. Now however it's revised. Every chance my brother gets he calls me ->-bleeped-<-, flamer, ect. Even if I just say hi to him, but my sister doesn't, though she did have a hard time with it when I came out. My sister and I get along perfectly fine now, but before we always fought. I find is interesting. Is it because I am her older sister now or something else?
Thanks for your time. 

Well, he's 15, so he's at the age where he'll succumb to a lot of media stuff, peer pressure, and such. Plus, since he was close to you, he probably feels you betrayed his trust in some way. Many 15 year olds are just starting to like girls so when he sees his beloved brother transitioning into one, that really messes with his psyche. I am quite sure he is not the only 15 year old boy who would feel this way. He may come to respect you again in the future and hopefully will apologize for his behaviour.

[Osiris]

He could be taking it so hard because you two were so close. Like Danielle said he probably looked up to you as a male role model and now he's lost that image of you. It's going to be hard to rebuild something that had previously been so strong. And again, he's young and doesn't know how to act with his emotions. Hopefully, someday he'll be more accepting and open up to building a different bond with you.

[K8]

I've only been out about 5 months, but I've already noticed that I'm a lot closer to my female friends than I was before and am struggling a little to hold onto my close male friends.  Your brother's reaction may be perfectly normal now that you've defected to the other camp.  

It could be just that you have less in common than you did before.

- Kate