Follow ups and goodies pointed out in the comments:

- Good takeaway from the fly story is about boundaries and how to manage them. Don’t break your partners boundaries, but also talk about things instead of silent tretment

- Wedding dress story gets even wilder and seems like the husband lied about why the friend wore the dress, leading to a full on divorce? lol

- 15 y/o with insomnia; as people are pointing out insomnia is a real issue, which the comments in the post whoosh. Also punishing a long distance relationship is hardly productive in this case.

I went back to take a scroll and it’s really hard to get any full context.
It seems they only get partial help regarding another issue in therapy, but not for photosensetivity or insomnia. But the parents may also not know about all of it? May also be a monetary issue regarding therapy.
It is a very fragmented story and I hope they get to the point they can communicate with the parent, and the parent is receptive and they get the best help possible
(Since the story is hard to grasp, and too many assumptions are made, both by myself and in the thread, I decided to cut it as it's not really productive)

Speaking as someone with multiple degrees, there is a difference between intelligence and education, and the husband bullying his "stupid" wife is so much the AH, I feel like he needs a special award for AH achievement.

Am I the butthole?
I keep teasing my audience with a fake bingo board. Just when they forget about it, I bring it up again. It’s supposed to be a prank but some people tell me that they aren’t laughing, so maybe I’m taking it too far? But I don’t think I am

For the last one, i have a friend who are GENUINELY "concerned" for me. The situation is the same..im around the same height and weight as the chubby girl..but you know how my friend showed shes concerned? She didnt police me about my food, instead she invited me to hang out, and eat healthy, because she wants to. She knows im not picky, so she pick healthy places and i, in turn would just eat it as well with no complaint. She would ask me to ACCOMPANY her to the gym (tho im still adamant because im feeling shy- self esteem issue and all). She didnt say "go to the gym, youre fat", she asked me, only a FEW times..if we wanna be gym buddies. She was the first person to genuinely praised me and call me beautiful without prompt
(It really was sudden, we were hanging out and she praised me, and not just that one time, a few others- and as someone with self esteem issue, i almost cried). If i trip, instead of "haha this is why you should go to the gym" the first thing she would ask is if im ok. Istg shes too nice and kind for this world..and deserve the best.

Also she should planned outings with me earlier because i kept missing her calls, maybe ill call her to hangout tmr

For the story at 27:07, these girls are lucky they just got their vacation canceled and yelled at. Passports are government documents, just like a license and other things. If OP wanted, he could've filed charges for hiding and withholding another person's government paperwork - which the daughter that had the passport hidden is 18, so it would probably go through. They are both above 18 years old, and no judge would hear this story and think they are innocent. If the wife was found as aiding the withholding the documents and knowing of this plan, she could be charged too. These girls and wife should be glad that was the punishment they got. They could've gotten much worse, if it was someone they didn't know as well or wasn't as forgiving

Update on the Corpse Bride wedding dress story!
The husband was actually jealous of OP'S friendship with the bride and wanted to sabotage it by making her think OP knew it was the wedding. She found out the truth and realized how controlling and manipulative her new husband was. Dumped him. Their friendship is okay.

That dude bragging about his girlfriend "being timid around intelligent people" its not only dumb af... Hes abusive - I hope she left him... He doesn't deserve a pet rock

AITA post are always either “AITA for stopping my family from abusing me further” or “AITA for killing my sister’s cat because she didn’t support my demands”. There’s no in-between.

I feel like 49% of these stories are "AITA for expecting common decency from absolute psychopaths"
49% are "AITA for doing this totally monstrous thing?"
and only 2% are ACTUALLY debatable.

Gee I wonder why the wife in one story is insecure if her husband is consonantly putting her down and making fun of her intelligence...
And she's so happy about a compliment... maybe because he never gives her any??

The guy's "stupid" wife is actually incredibly intelligent, judging by the fact that she knows AT LEAST two languages, to the point where she's told she sounds like a native speaker. I also have a feeling that the only reason she's insecure about her intelligence is because of her husband degrading her and making jokes at her expense.

The guy with the "not smart" wife is beyond ahole to abuser. The minute she said "speak when spoken to" I knew where this was headed, and then when she went nuts over one compliment I was sure.
This woman never hears affirmation from the man she's married to. She sticks around because he's convinced her she has no other options and she's too stupid to survive without him. Then someone comes by and shows her she has worth, that she's good at something - of COURSE she's going to be floating on cloud nine! And then he can't handle her being happy and maybe eventually thinking she might not need him after all, so he squashed it to keep her under his thumb. Man I hope she gets out safe. Given the multilingual comment I'm guessing she may be in a mail-order bride type situation and has no family nearby to help her.

I'm so glad that the OP of the flower girl story stood her ground. If she had decided to fold, there's a good chance her stepdaughter wouldn't have ever been able to get over the hurt that would've caused. Letting the stepdaughter be the flower girl, ESPECIALLY when she asked for that role, tells her that she's important, that she's FAMILY. If that role was stripped away, that would've told her that she wasn't as important to her own stepmom as her stepcousin was. That kind of hurt, ESPECIALLY to a 6-year-old, would've caused lasting harm. But OP put her stepdaughter first, and I'm so glad.

50% of these Stories: "AITA for" tells the most devious sh't ever

Other 50%: "AITA for" normal thing

Stealing a passport is a federal crime, regardless of the reason.  If convicted, up to 25 years at one of Uncle's grey bar motels.  Father should have scared the stuff out of those two.  "We can't find the passport.  I'll have to call the FBI."

The girl dipping her fingers into food sounds toxic-
She keeps doing sth that her partner told her MULTIPLE TIMES not to do and then gets defensive and accuses him of sth he didn't even do.
She is also very selfish because her second long "childhood experience" is more important than her partner having to do more work and potentially causing people to be sick (she literally did that when he went to shower, probably expecting him not to see her do it which would put his sister's clients and her business at risk).

OP is DEFINITELY not the AH, they need a serious talk about boundries.

39:46 My heart is melting. The parents and the daughter are so sweet and kind to their           ex-daughter-in-law. I’d say that they should all disown the son cuz he’s clearly just a big pile of poo. You don’t treat your wife that way.

"No normal person keeps talking about a compliment this long."

No normal person repeats the word "intelligent" as if it's a whole aristocratic class.

That man calling his wife "stupid" came off so insecure and condescending to me. The way he bragged about his educated friends was intense and him trying to squash his wife's curiosity was petty and reeked of jealousy. Pretty sure he's lying about apologizing to his wife. I hope she escapes that marriage and realises her worth.

For the Corpse Bride story, there was an update (in a separate post). The husband lied to the wife in order to try and ruin her friendship with OP, because he never liked OP. The wife reached out and apologized to OP after learning that her husband lied.