The Birth Order Thread

[MeekMe]

This is my experience, as well. I hardly know my siblings. My sister and I see each other maybe twice a year and hardly ever call. I generally know what's going on in her life, because I see her son quite often and my mom keeps me somewhat up to date.

My brother and I have more in common, both of us being into music and I can actually remember him living at home and him waking me up to go to school in the first grades etc. Still, we don't really keep in touch that much. I see him quite often when he's in town for gigs and he regularly gets my name on the lists of various other gigs, but our communication is pretty superficial. He's alway offered to to help me move, though.

So in a way I'm an only kid, although in reality I have two older siblings.

Weird, huh? I can't identify with my family at all really. Describing it as superficial certainly seems to work.

Stag, I know the feeling of hearing the door lock. It seems I can't remember my older sister being there for those days. I know she stepped up with the other bad situations, though.

 

[midwestyankee]

Oldest of five but my experience is much like that of Seela and MeekMe, for I have a brother who was born during my final year of high school. I was off to college before he could talk. i hardly knew him as he was growing up, despite fairly regular trips back to the family home for holidays and vacations and such. Still, as he grew into adulthood it turned out we have a couple of interests in common and have had some great conversations over coffee. Plus, he's addicted to FaceBook so I see which side of his nose he's picking every day. Of such things is brotherhood born, no?

 

[IrisAlthea]

This is my experience, as well. I hardly know my siblings. My sister and I see each other maybe twice a year and hardly ever call. I generally know what's going on in her life, because I see her son quite often and my mom keeps me somewhat up to date.

My brother and I have more in common, both of us being into music and I can actually remember him living at home and him waking me up to go to school in the first grades etc. Still, we don't really keep in touch that much. I see him quite often when he's in town for gigs and he regularly gets my name on the lists of various other gigs, but our communication is pretty superficial. He's alway offered to to help me move, though.

So in a way I'm an only kid, although in reality I have two older siblings.

And I'm the total opposite and also the same because I was old enough when my brother was born, to remember a good part of my childhood as an only child.

Still, as he grew into adulthood it turned out we have a couple of interests in common and have had some great conversations over coffee.

This.

 

[Niam1985]

Oldest of four. I'm not close with any of them. I'm the "weird" one.

 

[LallyH]

Youngest of three, by 12 years. Talk about an accident...

And me....but with siblings 11 and 14 years older than me. It was like living with two sets of parents

 

[kiwi_submissive]

No idea as it depends on peoples trains of though.

I am the youngest. I do have an older brother who is adopted. Over the years people have said that adoption doesn't count and that he isn't really my brother but we have the typical love/hate relationship so I count myself as the youngest.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

No idea as it depends on peoples trains of though.

I am the youngest. I do have an older brother who is adopted. Over the years people have said that adoption doesn't count and that he isn't really my brother but we have the typical love/hate relationship so I count myself as the youngest.

Whaaat? Of course adoption counts, and you are the youngest. Anyone who says it doesn't count has not seen it in action, or has possibly seen a difficult example of it... I would imagine you still grew up with an older sibling, knew that he was your brother, got that as a concept before you ever understood what adoption was..??

 

[annabel_lee]

I'm the oldest of three on my mom's side, and second oldest of six on my dad's side, but pretty much grew up as an only child.