I just read this article about how siblings influence you. I only have a half brother. I rarely see him, and we’re not close. So I’m pretty much an only child. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I’ve always thought of it as good, but sometimes I wonder if I’ll miss not having a sibling when I’m older. So talk about your sibling experiences.

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I am trying to be closer to my brother though.

To be frank, if you are related to me, I have a higher chance of possessing a low opinion of you.

My siblings are alright as people, really—I wouldn’t really know about my half brother, and admittedly, my sister is a bit immature and bratty, but she’ll hopefully grow out of it.

I have a brother who’s a year younger than me and had similar interests growing up, which is a more difficult situation than it sounds like. I’m rather surprised I have kept in touch with him as well as I have when we were in colleges on opposite ends of TX.

I usually text him at least once a day, if only to call him a big gay homo. It’s my responsibility as his older brother.

Anime and manga were “hers”, so much so I am forbidden from watching Inuyasha without her permission.

Who wants to watch Inuyasha? Watch Gurren Lagann, and if she objects, ask her who the hell she thinks you are and then kick her ass.

I have a brother who’s a year younger than me and had similar interests growing up, which is a more difficult situation than it sounds like.

No, it sounds difficult. Both my siblings have the difficult task of trying to beat my records, but my little brother is strange in the fact that he is, in some ways, actually succeeding.

I usually text him at least once a day, if only to call him a big gay homo. It’s my responsibility as his older brother.

But of course! I would do this to my sister, but she is also bigger and stronger than me. I am, however, completely able to put my brother in a headlock.

I am the middle child, which I actually really love.

My older sister (three years older) is beautiful, funny, and really great to be with, but she’s had significant problems in the past, and now she’s working really hard to overcome them. So in that way I really do admire her. Plus, without her, I would not have the taste in music I have now, so for that I am eternally grateful to her. (And I’m taller than her!)

My younger brother (five years younger) is pretty smart, funny and obsessed with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and all things nerdy. He can be annoying, but he can also be really sweet. (Once when he went to Six Flags, and he spent all his money on a present for me and my sister) We squabble a lot, but we always make up five minutes later.

Yeah, my sibs are awesome for the most part. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.

On the one hand, deep down you want them to succeed and do well, but at the same time, you still want to win.

This is especially true of me and my sister, because she’s had so many more difficulties than me. (She has ADHD, among other things)

YES!

Exactly!

They call me the ‘Golden Child’, you know. And then when my sister got a 100% on her stats final and I got a 98% on my trig final, I never heard the end of it!

I’m the organized sibling, actually.

@ sansafro: Between me and my brother, I’m the most organised, even though I just have piles of organised chaos. BUT at least my chaos stays in my room and doesn’t spill out over the rest of the bloody house.

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And at least I open my window every now and then and thet my room air out so it doesn’t smell like a combo of “damp cheese shop” and “musty library”

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I leave my clothes on the floor of the bedroom to wear later. She leaves them all over the house in the hopes that they will migrate to the hamper.

My siblings want to write their own. My brother did have a good idea for a story when he was little, but any nine year old trying to write fanfic is a bad idea. My sister writes, but she has me read it to critique it, then complains that I always say something is wrong. Or, since I always find fault with it, I cannot say I like anything she writes.

I have a big sister. She’s five years older. We used to argue all the time, but it never took us long to make up and these days we only fight about serious things. Sometimes she gets really judgemental and condescending, which annoys the hell out of me, and I tend to work very hard to not be her. She was the one who started writing, granted, and I copied, but I was eight at the time, so…

Sadly, she’s very snobby when it comes to pop culture. She refuses Supernatural, BtVS and AtS…and she’s slightly anti-fanfic.

He put you up to this for karma, didn’t he?

I have two younger brothers, five and seven years younger.

But I’ve noticed that I have a strange mix of their personalities.. one is very talkative but quite intelligent, while the other is shyer and struggles in school. I’m shy and intelligent, but there are a lot of other things that all of us share personality-wise.

Guys, can I please have the Award for Most Siblings on II? Please?

Anyway. I have six siblings. Five older, one younger. They all definitely had a part in making me who I am today. Because we were all homeschooled, we had to be around each other all the time. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, because most of us are pretty laid back (myself and my olest brother were the peacemakers of the family). Actually, it was awesome. Since there was always a rather diverse crowd at home, all of us have learned extreme patience and tolerance. At some point or other, all of us were doing all the cooking, cleaning, teaching, and adventuring together, and having a blast. We used to live in the huge old farmhouse on all this land with these ponds…

Yeah. So all of my older siblings have moved out now, leaving just me and my little sister at home. Our personalities are completely different but we manage to coexist very nicely. It helps that we’re both prone to being sarcastic all the time. :P We read Harry Potter, go to movies, draw terrible fanart that we would never show to anyone else, and watch lame British shows together on a regular basis. :D Even though she’s younger than me by more than three years, we can now successfully fool people into thinking we’re twins. Yes.

My little sister is taller than me now. D: But our faces and body types are similar enough. Even though she’s blonde and I’m brunette.

People always managed to think my brother and I were twins when we were younger, which made no sense because I was always taller and bigger than he was(and still am). We didn’t really even look alike beside hair color… and maybe eye color? I actually don’t know what color his eyes are.

My sister is shorter, prettier, curvier, and people still insist that she looks like taller, ganglier, stick-thin me.

Actually no.

XD

It’s a whiny thing to say, I suppose, but mostly true.

Prettier is debatable, especially if I actually bothered, but she is shorter, curvier and I am taller and ganglier.

That’s what you think.

Wallet chains on gym shorts? O__o

Well, I do have to really good friends, who are brother and sister, and they’ve always been like siblings to me. The boy is a year and a half younger than me, and the girl is four and a half years younger. She’s very mature though, for the reasons that Puppet mentioned. She always hung out with people that were my age, so she acts at least three years older than she really is.