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RatherBeMe Best Comment
During childhood...
- regularly brushed aside
- not taken seriously
- easily overpowered or over ruled by older siblings
- teased, bossed around, and sometimes physically a punching bag for frustrated older siblings
- potentially have parents that are burnt out with parenting by the time you come around
In adulthood...
- all the baggage that follows you from the stuff listed above
- some siblings STILL do not take you seriously even when you become a fully functioning adult
- always the student never the master in the presence of family (some older siblings feel more experienced and wiser and always have that age gap to use as leverage)
- the feeling of being 6 again in the presence of family.... even when you are 40 years old
- hearing "oh, you're the baby of the family" until the day you die
- regularly brushed aside
- not taken seriously
- easily overpowered or over ruled by older siblings
- teased, bossed around, and sometimes physically a punching bag for frustrated older siblings
- potentially have parents that are burnt out with parenting by the time you come around
In adulthood...
- all the baggage that follows you from the stuff listed above
- some siblings STILL do not take you seriously even when you become a fully functioning adult
- always the student never the master in the presence of family (some older siblings feel more experienced and wiser and always have that age gap to use as leverage)
- the feeling of being 6 again in the presence of family.... even when you are 40 years old
- hearing "oh, you're the baby of the family" until the day you die
