• @orphiebaby
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    2 years 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
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      522 years 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

      • @orphiebaby
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        252 years ago

        Forgotten = doesn’t exist

        At least in the sense that we mean it.

      • IninewCrow
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        122 years ago

        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.

    • GigglyBobble
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      42 years ago

      At least middle children had their own TV show. Been a while though.

      • @Something_Complex
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        42 years 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 )-|

  • @Countess425
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    382 years ago

    I am not in this image and that costs me a lot of money in therapy.

    :(

  • @DerKanzler
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    262 years ago

    Only child is heavily spoiled and oftentimes the opposite of independent

  • @paddirn
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    232 years ago

    As a middle child, I too have not existed for my whole life.

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      102 years ago

      Be quiet and go in the basement. We’ll feed you through the cat hole

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Middle child syndrome. Me and my oldest sister used to taunt my middle sister with that term when she started acting up. Wasn’t a good idea because when it was only me and her in the house she would bully me a lot and this added to that rage. Venting I guess.

  • Nioxic
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    122 years ago

    The driver controls the radio.

    Sorry.

    • @BoopsieBoop
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      12 years ago

      Right? Like I pretty much never got to pick the radio station as a kid. TV and radio was always picked by my parents.

  • mvilain
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    102 years 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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years 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.

  • Capt. Wolf
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    52 years ago

    My older brother, who got to go to karate, summer camp, boy scouts, a $300 BMX bike, an endless supply of skateboards, a half pipe in our back yard, and got to tour as a pro skater… “Capt_Wolf is the spoiled one! He got whatever he wanted!”

    • @Llamajockey
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      22 years ago

      He/she is both brother and sister He/she is the singularity

  • @my_blackest_day
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    42 years ago

    Fk I hate being the oldest of 3, people expect so fking much from me

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years 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.

    • @Skellybones
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      32 years ago

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

      • @Screwthehole
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        2 years ago

        We have 2 kids, and the oldest feels jealous when I give the youngest focused attention. I constantly have to remind her that I did the same with her, and it’s only fair. But I can see how it’s tough on her.

        This week our 4 year old wanted to try swimming like her sister without floaties. So I was helping her navigate the water where she had to keep herself up, and my oldest (7) was definitely feeling jelly.

        • @Skellybones
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          12 years ago

          Lol that young it makes sense that they get jealous they’ll grow out of it

  • @Skellybones
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    12 years ago

    I’m the top right got mature because of tough times not pretty but something I’m proud of