Are they being fair?

Well, just to get an opinion on soemthing i've noticed. I'm 17 and my brother is 11. I do a fair bit of chores around the house, like for example, i do the dishes, this is basically my task, so no other person does it. I also do a couple others, but not as often. I don't feel i have an overwhelming amount to do around the house at all, but that's never the problem. The problem is, i've noticed my brother were never told to do anything. It is as if my parents are doing it on purpose, whenever i fell ill, my mum would rather do the stuff for me than letting my brother help even though she's usually quite busy. It is as if they are repulsed by the idea of my brother doing any household chores. The other time, my mum told my brother to just fold some clothes up, my dad fell silent and it was obvoise that he was quite disaproved.
Also, whenever my parents need help on something, they would always call me no matter what i happen to be doing, (eg: revising for A levels etc). Even if it's a very simple task and they could easily have got my brother to do it, since he's never busy.
Now, they mentioned when i was about 9, that i need to help out around the house, and it's good practice. So ever since i've been doing the dishes every day and occasionally do some vaccuming (it's more frequent now). I'm fine with that. But i always thought when my brother reaches the same age, they would get him to help around a bit too. But they didn't, and i thought maybe in a few years, they would. Now that he's 11, i'm really starting to feel that it's quite unfair.
Is this normal?

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Bubblebee

Yup, same, my older brother is never asked to do anything. I am the only person in the family who doesn't drink tea or coffee yet they always call me away from what I'm doing to make tea. With the excuse that they are too tired!