• Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Excuse me, but as a middle child, I have to absolutely object to that last statement. Middle children have their own unique sibling/personality complexes. :P

    Oh wait, I don’t exist. Wow, that’s a stealthy, mean joke. That cuts, fam.

    • imaBEES@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think it was less a joke about how middle children don’t exist and more a joke about how middle children are often forgotten about compared to the oldest/youngest

      • IninewCrow@kbin.social
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        Don’t exist until they’re gone … I’m a middle child in a family of eight … mom kept an eye on the baby and the oldest … as long as there was six in the middle, no one really cared who they were until that number of middle children decreased.

      • Something_Complex@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Thought I really feel like Malcolm often…my younger sister is a genius at arts and my older brother is a below average inteligence bully.

        I’m just missing the inteligence )-|

  • pollocks@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As the youngest child in my family, I was most definitely not “The favorite” but I was able to get away with the most.

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    1 year ago

    We’re always most jealous of the youngest, but actually it’s better for your mind and happiness later in life to be able to handle the world better, and growing up too safe and favorites can definitely prevent that.

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      1 year ago

      Help the youngest instead of being jealous of them, teach them the faults you made through your life to not repeat those mistakes

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    1 year ago

    My father always used to say he had three kids. One of each.

    30 years later, I repeated this to my niece and nephew. They were quite puzzled. Especially when my brother laughed saying “I forgot Dad used to say that.”