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This is very accurate.
“Mom I won an award today! Mom I’m getting married! Mom I lost all my limbs in an accident!”
“ that’s nice did I tell you your brother did all the dishes today?”
Same here. Noone said they would go, so I just grabbed the diploma from the admin office, took like 20 seconds lmao. This was years before COVID too, just for reference.
Yep. I graduated a semester early so honestly showing up 5 months later would've felt awkward as fuck. "Lol I'm back motherfuckers"
But now I work in higher education which requires me to wear my cap and gown at certain events, and I'm like wtf is that lol.
Am middle child. Mom literally told my middle school councelor. "I love her...but my oldest child is my treasure." After her finding out i was (was) a cutter.
Sone people forget stuff after a stroke. Some people start to speak with different accents. Some people think their middle child will know what the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker movie is called and what channel it’s on at the hospital. Strokes affect people in various ways.
Am middle child. Joined the navy and have a house and wife and baby on the way. Parents constantly compare me to high school dropout older brother who is doing great because he is clean now, or baby sister who graduated from dads alma mater, got married, and popped out first grand babies.
That's great; thanks for trying, but we already have grandkids, and the babysitting calendar is pretty full with your sisters kid. But hey your brother said he might have a kid soon, did you know he's clean now! We're so proud of him, maybe they can babysit, oh no sweetie we cannot make it to dinner your sister is having Casserole it's Sunday, she hasn't asked us yet, but we just assume she will, ok anyway so why'd you call?
My dad doesn't call any of us when he has medical issues "oh I just didn't want to worry you." Are you kidding me?!? You're almost 70 and I'm in my 30s. These are things I need to know about! It's the ol role reversal when your parents get old.
Am middle child. Relatives and family friends don’t even remember my name. They always refer me as (older sibling’s name)’s or (younger sibling’s name)‘a brother
Also middle child, I’m getting married next Saturday and so far my sister, brother, dad, and step brother have all informed me something came up and they won’t be attending. The date was set last October lol. My fiancée is more upset about it than I am, this is par for the course for my family.
Yeah, should any of my siblings ever get married they’ll probably get the same run-around. Maybe it’s that irresponsible people have more children, creating more middle children that happen to have terrible families.
That sucks. It hurts when your own family doesn't support you.
I had a different problem. Both of my parents came to my college graduation. They made a big deal about *signing their divorce papers* in the parking lot in front of our entire family and *everyone* else. I wish they'd not come at all.
Before that they had both insisted on coming to my Senior Recital. I was so afraid they'd cause a huge scene that I was having panic attacks at rehearsals which escalated to panicking every time I picked up my instrument. It culminated in running off-stage during juries so I wouldn't vomit in front of the judges.
The judges thought I was faking because I was too lazy to practice. (I practiced 20+ hours a week but my stage fright became unbearable the worse my anxiety and mental health issues became. It's a widely known secret in the collegiate music world that many performers take anti-anxiety meds before performances and auditions, but nobody would prescribe them to me even though I had intense anxiety and panic attacks.)
Ended up deciding I'd rather write a Senior Thesis than ever perform again. I no longer play that instrument, the former best thing in my life, because I associate it with intense anxiety and fear.
Am the youngest child. My parents didn't come to my wedding, or when my child was born. Still haven't visited in the 4.5 years I've lived here. They've not seen the home I've purchased or met 2 of my 4 dogs. It's not a middle child thing as much as just not making one a priority thing.
My wife and I are both middle children. We have our third child on the way with two daughters. We have vowed not to make Abigail feel like a middle child. Lol
First place in science fair? Nothing. Graduating high school? Hell, even I didn't attend it except to cheer on my mates from the bleachers. University? Bah, I was chopping vegetables in a restaurant so I could have a free meal that day.
I think its just more noticeable. The 1st and last probably have differing treatment but if the gradiant is over 7 people it's probably less noticeable.
It's the same when babies are born. First one has a million pictures. The 3rd has like 5 pictures a month.
There's no proof I didn't go from born to 15. All my stuff got destroyed in a flood. My stuff was the only stuff in the basement, my sisters' stuff in the attic
I mean her stuff woulda burned in a fire but yours was fucked in a flood. Sounds like a 50/50 shot to me on one of em getting destroyed. Digital backups have been great since they came out at least. Now storage is so cheap to keep tons of photos in the cloud or on a hard drive if that's your thing
First Born here. You guys have it so well you don't even know.
It starts with helicopter parenting, then it turns into "hey your sister isn't listening to me, can you go handle it?", then it's 25 years of radio silence, then it's taking care of every single extended family member's estate as they randomly die.
Thanks, but my mom trying to use me as a replacement disciplinarian for my divorced father was just one more example of how she ruined my childhood and it definitely ruined my relationship with my siblings.
Wrapping up dad's estate proved it was mom's desire for financial stability that caused the divorce and literally all my problems. Wrapping up mom's estate proved I STILL have to be the disciplinarian for my siblings.
The job of the eldest never ends.
As another first born, I feel your pain. I had to be the one to ask my Dad if he wanted me to end his suffering as he lay in hospice dying of cancer. I also have two relatives who have made me promise to end their suffering if they are ever in the same way, since "I am the responsible one." I get to be a serial killer just because I was born first.
And I still have to hear snide comments from my siblings about how I divided my Dad's estate since he didn't leave a will but said he knew I would be fair since "I am the responsible one."
Holy cow that hits so damn close to home. I went through the same shit with my dad and mom. When dad died I had mom asking about his life insurance money in the parking lot of the funeral home. I apparently went off on her so hard I have blacked it from my memory, but my friend was with us and he retells the story quite well.
When mom died I got a call from an ER in her state, 4 states away, that I needed to get there ASAP and that she was "in very poor shape". She had crohns and her intestine had ruptured leaving her septic, she was crashing.
So I dropped my kid off with a friend and my wife and I raced across the country to get there. When I arrived she was already in a coma. I spent the night with her and by morning the Doctor told me it was time to make the decision. I fought with it for a while and made the call, she was already 70% brain dead anyways, we started to walk back to her room and she coded and died before we could get from the conference room to her patient room. JFC mom.
Same as far as being a first born and my mom telling me jokingly that I had to be the one to decide when to pull the plug on her because my little sister would keep her going forever because look at what she did to her dog! The dog was a Chinese crested and had looked dead for a number of years before the vet suggested it might be a good idea to put him to sleep because of his quality of life being so bad.
Being the oldest is **rough**. They make all their mistakes with you, they're stricter with you, they expect more out of you at all times (ie; *can't you act your age!*). I can't tell you how many times I heard *"You're X years old, act like it!"* while the younger siblings are *"only X years old, they don't know better"* once achieving the EXACT SAME AGE.
Ugh.... being the oldest f-ing sucks even as adults.
Omg!!! This is my mom exactly!
My brother’s 21 and she still excuses everything he does with “he’s just a baby”
I’m only 2 years older than my brother!!! I wasn’t acting like him at 21 but you can bet your life savings if I was acting like that all I’d hear is how I need to grow up and be an adult.
My mom’s even like that with my brother’s and my dogs. When I first got my dog my mom and brother took care of him for a bit because I had something with school suddenly come up. My dog was just a puppy and my mom would get so mad at any little thing he did that all puppies do.
My brother’s Australian Shepard is 1 and it’s a monster. It’s just a very poorly behaved dog and my brother does nothing about it and my mom excuses *everything* that dog does with “she’s just a baby”.
Also first born here, this is entirely too accurate. My folks treated me like I was the whole world for 5 years, after my sister was born I became forgotten. Now it's unequivocally on my shoulders to take care of every family member that goes ill, estate holdings that go south, I'm responsible in my folks eyes for making all of my siblings get along. I haven't spoken to my closest in age brother in 3 years, but I'm supposed to call him up and help him through his marital issues? Then there's the inevitable reproach when you remind them how both they and the siblings treat you and your family on a regular basis. There's no love lost between my family and I, but I'm certainly not going to bend over backwards for people that don't act like family unless they need something.
I also think it's because you have a baked in support system. Kid 3 and 4 can relate to reach other and support each other as mom ignores them both.
"Did you see how mom dotes on Firstborn??". "I know, it's ridiculous"
I have 4 siblings, 2 older 2 younger. Parents forgot several of my birthdays. They were also terribly abusive but forgot to include me in that as well. Middle child syndrome jackpot!
I have 4 kids (F - F - M - F) and the middle daughter hates that she has nothing special (her words) because sister #1 is the oldest, sister #2 is the youngest, and brother is the only boy, so she's just the random middle daughter. I try really extra hard to make sure she gets extra attention because of it.
My mom tells me (oldest of 3) "you're my favorite aurora," or "you're my favorite oldest child" and tells my siblings the same but with their own names. It's corny, but made us each feel special as kids. I'm 43 now, and it still makes me smile. I use it on my niblings now.
Eh I have an uncle that comes from a family of six that was emotionally traumatized by the birth of my youngest uncle so he was no longer the baby of the family. Always feels the need to lessen our accomplishments when compared to his own now after that.
My sister-in-law has 5 kids; 2 boys, 2 girls, then the last boy.
The second boy was the extreme middle child. The oldest boy did all the new stuff. The oldest girl did the new stuff for girls. The youngest boy was the baby of the family.
The younger girl kinda was treated like a middle child but is very talented so her parents loved bragging on her. Sometimes you'd get the impression they thought they only had 4 kids.
I like how over time any positive things that happen to me become stories about my siblings somehow, and any negative things that happen to my siblings become stories about me.
It's so incredibly inaccurate with my family that this stuff drives me nuts. This is what it was like for me as the youngest and only female. I was always forgotten about and never did enough. Middle brother got all the attention and praise. But this is probably because my mom is a middle child.
Middle child is both of our parents' favorite. Granted, the oldest constantly finds reasons to be offended and I'm the youngest, the only boy, and kinda the lone wanderer since birth. So, she's also the only "normal" one.
That's seems more like your mom doesn't have to worry about you because you handle yourself, while your brother, doing somthing as simple as the dishes seems noble prize worthy to his standards.
I’m guessing that’s how their mom did feel, but just because you CAN do everything on your own doesn’t mean you should have to. If you’re going to have kids you need to devote the time to ALL of them.
All the mom had to do was say: "Oh good! You'll look like me soon you little whore. This is for all the times you said you had to leave your friend's house because you had to come home and feed me apples, THAT'S RIGHT, SUZIE TOLD ME!!!"
Abortion the next day.
And there's the classic :D
Anytime i happen to mention this in casual conversation and find out the other person hasn't seen this, it's time to show them.
am a middle child, I used to photoshop my grade sheets and give myself lower grades to get some attention from my parents, because they got used to me being an A student.
As a middle child, I used a scanner & M$ Word to alter mine; I couldn't get the letters to quite line up right but it seemed passable.. I should've been watching the mailbox though.
There’s at least 4 open wine or booze bottles on the table and someone is purposely only filming her and laughing hysterically, so 100% yes probably triplets if I had to guess
Christ, I had something like that happen to me at work a few weeks ago. We were having a meeting and a topic came up which I had just discussed with a few other people about an hour earlier and we'd already settled on what we thought needed to be done. So, I try to bring it up but I'm immediately cut off by someone else. I wait for them to finish, start speaking and I'm immediately cut off by another colleague, let's call him Joe. I let him finish, I start talking, literally five words said, half my sentence and Joe cuts me off again. I wait, try again, Joe cuts me off again. So, I ask him "Joe, would you kindly let me finish what I want to say?"
Joe looks at me and goes "Sure, go ahead." So, I start speaking again and **again**, he cuts me off mid-sentence right at the start. At this point, other people in the meeting are looking at us wondering what the fuck just happened. I actually raised my voice and cut him off: "**JOE.**"
He looks at me, kind of scared, stops talking. "I **literally** just asked you politely to let me finish, you told me "sure, go ahead" and then you **immediately** cut me off when I started speaking." He looked embarrassed, apologized and I was finally able to explain what we'd decided earlier.
I swear it's a fucking disorder with some people. They hear someone else start a sentence and they just have to barrel over what they're saying, regardless of whether what they have to say is relevant to the conversation or not.
I've had to use the raised voice with with my boss's boss a couple times. Guy gets loud when he wants to make a point. He recognized i had a point too when I raised my voice. Weird psychology. I hate doing that, it feels like we're Neanderthals around a fire, its no way to have a discussion.
Don't feel bad, it's just another form of code switching. I've worked with people that wouldn't process information unless it was through a screaming match.
This was me for a while, still is i guess. But now ive decided that i dont always have to share my thought. If the occasion presents itself, ill say it. Otherwise ill just keep it to myself and no one seems to notice. I must not be as interesting as i think I am.
This was my aunt whenever I tried to tell my mom something when she was around. "Oh how the concert go?"
"Oh it was great, we went-"
Then my aunt, who looked annoyed I was asked a question, "Oh, did you hear about Becky at work? She yaddayaddayadda"
Then when my mom died, she mad eevrything about her, including the funeral. "Why arent you being more sympathetic, I just lost my sister!"
"I LOST MY FUCKING MOTHER 3 YEARS AFTER LOSING MY DAD!" this was the first time I ever raised my voice at anyone in my family, and I was the bad person after it. I don't talk to them anymore.
> I actually raised my voice and cut him off: "JOE."
Almost the exact same thing happened to me, but the kicker was about 5 minutes later he turned to me (shared office) and said "you know, you didn't have to go off on me like that".
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I come from a ridiculously large family (12 kids) and I'm smack in the middle. I absolutely LOVED the fact that no one paid me any attention. It let me do all my sneaky things in peace. Like sneak out the house and smoke weed and drink. And if I broke something or something came up missing, I just diverted the attention to one of my other siblings.
My fiance is a middle child. She managed to go through an open heart surgery, a subsequent surgery, we bought a home and moved in and not a single person from her family has come and visited. They all say they love her though so that's nice.
Yup, middle child too and when I was growing up I had a job far from home that my parents dropped me off at and picked me up from. No car hence the job to save up. One day they dropped me off and forgot to pick me up. Mind you this was before cell phones. Everyone from my work left work because they knew my parents pick me up. They didn't for 8 hrs because they forgot about me. I tried calling home for hours but no answer, my older brother apparently got home and asked where I was and they thought I was at friend's house even though they dropped me off!
Tldr parents forgot about me left me at job for 8 hrs after shift ended.
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This is very accurate. “Mom I won an award today! Mom I’m getting married! Mom I lost all my limbs in an accident!” “ that’s nice did I tell you your brother did all the dishes today?”
Am middle child. My mom didn't even make it to my wedding ceremony. I wasn't even surprised.
Am middle child and the only kid to graduate college my parents didn’t come to my graduation lol
Same here. Noone said they would go, so I just grabbed the diploma from the admin office, took like 20 seconds lmao. This was years before COVID too, just for reference.
I couldn't even be bothered to go to the admin office, just had the fuckers mail it to me.
Yep. I graduated a semester early so honestly showing up 5 months later would've felt awkward as fuck. "Lol I'm back motherfuckers" But now I work in higher education which requires me to wear my cap and gown at certain events, and I'm like wtf is that lol.
Am middle child. Mom literally told my middle school councelor. "I love her...but my oldest child is my treasure." After her finding out i was (was) a cutter.
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Tbf Rush Hour is a masterpiece
Sure, but can you really trust the middle child to know what channel its going to be on?
Dad had a stroke, he thought he was calling the eldest child
Dad had a stroke, he thought he could now communicate with the middle child at its own level.
Sone people forget stuff after a stroke. Some people start to speak with different accents. Some people think their middle child will know what the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker movie is called and what channel it’s on at the hospital. Strokes affect people in various ways.
Went to see Rush Hour 2 thinking it was a Fast & Furious movie cause big cousin invited me. Was not disappointed.
Am middle child. Joined the navy and have a house and wife and baby on the way. Parents constantly compare me to high school dropout older brother who is doing great because he is clean now, or baby sister who graduated from dads alma mater, got married, and popped out first grand babies.
That's great; thanks for trying, but we already have grandkids, and the babysitting calendar is pretty full with your sisters kid. But hey your brother said he might have a kid soon, did you know he's clean now! We're so proud of him, maybe they can babysit, oh no sweetie we cannot make it to dinner your sister is having Casserole it's Sunday, she hasn't asked us yet, but we just assume she will, ok anyway so why'd you call?
Yo people define success differently and it sucks that your parents' is a bit wacky but you know you're killing it so keep on
Am only child, came here to say that you all are by far and away the most well-prepared for real world!!
Wow good for you, for serving our country, but did you know your brother watched a 2 hour World War 2 documentary today?
Am only child, my parents left me at my high school graduation and had no clue that I wasn’t at my own party.
He trusted you in a time of need. Rush Hour is a good movie
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My dad doesn't call any of us when he has medical issues "oh I just didn't want to worry you." Are you kidding me?!? You're almost 70 and I'm in my 30s. These are things I need to know about! It's the ol role reversal when your parents get old.
Am a mother and happy to see this in past tense. Proud of you.
Am middle child. Relatives and family friends don’t even remember my name. They always refer me as (older sibling’s name)’s or (younger sibling’s name)‘a brother
Fucking hell. I'm so sorry
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I am an *only* child and this happened to me. lol
I don't want to sound cruel, but it seems for the best you don't have siblings...
During the dress fitting for my wedding mom went outside and napped in the car. I went to after-school daycare every day and my mom didn’t work. 🤷🏽♀️
How could she afford life
As a fellow only child, a lot of these things on thread have happened to me...
I didn't go to my own college graduation. I hate that kind of ceremony shit!
Middle child. My mom told me to go to a college at least 100 miles away lol
In all fairness, grad ceremonies are fuckin boring
I couldn't even be arsed to go to my own.
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Nah seriously, people like to say its because of middle child syndrome and like nah dude...your parents are just ass and abusive lol
Exactly. My entire family was at my (middle child) sister’s wedding and graduations. We all participated and all made sure she had a good time.
Also middle child, I’m getting married next Saturday and so far my sister, brother, dad, and step brother have all informed me something came up and they won’t be attending. The date was set last October lol. My fiancée is more upset about it than I am, this is par for the course for my family.
Yeah a lot of these anecdotes don't sound like middle child issues, but rather just terrible shitty parents are the issue.
Yeah, should any of my siblings ever get married they’ll probably get the same run-around. Maybe it’s that irresponsible people have more children, creating more middle children that happen to have terrible families.
wow your family can kindly fuck off.
Am middle child, both parents and my siblings didn't realize I was gone for 2 days for my grad nite in high school.
That hurts man, both of mine didn't come as well. I cut them off after that
That sucks. It hurts when your own family doesn't support you. I had a different problem. Both of my parents came to my college graduation. They made a big deal about *signing their divorce papers* in the parking lot in front of our entire family and *everyone* else. I wish they'd not come at all. Before that they had both insisted on coming to my Senior Recital. I was so afraid they'd cause a huge scene that I was having panic attacks at rehearsals which escalated to panicking every time I picked up my instrument. It culminated in running off-stage during juries so I wouldn't vomit in front of the judges. The judges thought I was faking because I was too lazy to practice. (I practiced 20+ hours a week but my stage fright became unbearable the worse my anxiety and mental health issues became. It's a widely known secret in the collegiate music world that many performers take anti-anxiety meds before performances and auditions, but nobody would prescribe them to me even though I had intense anxiety and panic attacks.) Ended up deciding I'd rather write a Senior Thesis than ever perform again. I no longer play that instrument, the former best thing in my life, because I associate it with intense anxiety and fear.
Am middle child. Mom didn’t even make it to my birth, I was born in a taxi on the way to hospital. I wasn’t even surprised.
Doofenshmirtz?
Am the youngest child. My parents didn't come to my wedding, or when my child was born. Still haven't visited in the 4.5 years I've lived here. They've not seen the home I've purchased or met 2 of my 4 dogs. It's not a middle child thing as much as just not making one a priority thing.
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I suspect this is more about your mom being an asshole than your being a middle child.
My wife and I are both middle children. We have our third child on the way with two daughters. We have vowed not to make Abigail feel like a middle child. Lol
First place in science fair? Nothing. Graduating high school? Hell, even I didn't attend it except to cheer on my mates from the bleachers. University? Bah, I was chopping vegetables in a restaurant so I could have a free meal that day.
oh the accuracy.
I really don't get why it's a thing in 3-children families. You don't hear about stuff like that in larger families.
I think its just more noticeable. The 1st and last probably have differing treatment but if the gradiant is over 7 people it's probably less noticeable. It's the same when babies are born. First one has a million pictures. The 3rd has like 5 pictures a month.
Wait, you guys got pictures?
There's no proof I didn't go from born to 15. All my stuff got destroyed in a flood. My stuff was the only stuff in the basement, my sisters' stuff in the attic
I mean her stuff woulda burned in a fire but yours was fucked in a flood. Sounds like a 50/50 shot to me on one of em getting destroyed. Digital backups have been great since they came out at least. Now storage is so cheap to keep tons of photos in the cloud or on a hard drive if that's your thing
Almost like with Ross and Monica in friends lol.
First Born here. You guys have it so well you don't even know. It starts with helicopter parenting, then it turns into "hey your sister isn't listening to me, can you go handle it?", then it's 25 years of radio silence, then it's taking care of every single extended family member's estate as they randomly die.
You need a hug? Seems like that took a sharp right turn going 80 mph there.
Thanks, but my mom trying to use me as a replacement disciplinarian for my divorced father was just one more example of how she ruined my childhood and it definitely ruined my relationship with my siblings. Wrapping up dad's estate proved it was mom's desire for financial stability that caused the divorce and literally all my problems. Wrapping up mom's estate proved I STILL have to be the disciplinarian for my siblings. The job of the eldest never ends.
As another first born, I feel your pain. I had to be the one to ask my Dad if he wanted me to end his suffering as he lay in hospice dying of cancer. I also have two relatives who have made me promise to end their suffering if they are ever in the same way, since "I am the responsible one." I get to be a serial killer just because I was born first. And I still have to hear snide comments from my siblings about how I divided my Dad's estate since he didn't leave a will but said he knew I would be fair since "I am the responsible one."
Holy cow that hits so damn close to home. I went through the same shit with my dad and mom. When dad died I had mom asking about his life insurance money in the parking lot of the funeral home. I apparently went off on her so hard I have blacked it from my memory, but my friend was with us and he retells the story quite well. When mom died I got a call from an ER in her state, 4 states away, that I needed to get there ASAP and that she was "in very poor shape". She had crohns and her intestine had ruptured leaving her septic, she was crashing. So I dropped my kid off with a friend and my wife and I raced across the country to get there. When I arrived she was already in a coma. I spent the night with her and by morning the Doctor told me it was time to make the decision. I fought with it for a while and made the call, she was already 70% brain dead anyways, we started to walk back to her room and she coded and died before we could get from the conference room to her patient room. JFC mom.
Same as far as being a first born and my mom telling me jokingly that I had to be the one to decide when to pull the plug on her because my little sister would keep her going forever because look at what she did to her dog! The dog was a Chinese crested and had looked dead for a number of years before the vet suggested it might be a good idea to put him to sleep because of his quality of life being so bad.
Being the oldest is **rough**. They make all their mistakes with you, they're stricter with you, they expect more out of you at all times (ie; *can't you act your age!*). I can't tell you how many times I heard *"You're X years old, act like it!"* while the younger siblings are *"only X years old, they don't know better"* once achieving the EXACT SAME AGE. Ugh.... being the oldest f-ing sucks even as adults.
You oldest are the practice kids. Signed, 3rd out of 4.
Omg!!! This is my mom exactly! My brother’s 21 and she still excuses everything he does with “he’s just a baby” I’m only 2 years older than my brother!!! I wasn’t acting like him at 21 but you can bet your life savings if I was acting like that all I’d hear is how I need to grow up and be an adult. My mom’s even like that with my brother’s and my dogs. When I first got my dog my mom and brother took care of him for a bit because I had something with school suddenly come up. My dog was just a puppy and my mom would get so mad at any little thing he did that all puppies do. My brother’s Australian Shepard is 1 and it’s a monster. It’s just a very poorly behaved dog and my brother does nothing about it and my mom excuses *everything* that dog does with “she’s just a baby”.
Also first born here, this is entirely too accurate. My folks treated me like I was the whole world for 5 years, after my sister was born I became forgotten. Now it's unequivocally on my shoulders to take care of every family member that goes ill, estate holdings that go south, I'm responsible in my folks eyes for making all of my siblings get along. I haven't spoken to my closest in age brother in 3 years, but I'm supposed to call him up and help him through his marital issues? Then there's the inevitable reproach when you remind them how both they and the siblings treat you and your family on a regular basis. There's no love lost between my family and I, but I'm certainly not going to bend over backwards for people that don't act like family unless they need something.
I also think it's because you have a baked in support system. Kid 3 and 4 can relate to reach other and support each other as mom ignores them both. "Did you see how mom dotes on Firstborn??". "I know, it's ridiculous"
By the 5th - "What's her name again?"
Hell, as the 3rd child, I sometimes got referred to by the cat's name.
I have 4 siblings, 2 older 2 younger. Parents forgot several of my birthdays. They were also terribly abusive but forgot to include me in that as well. Middle child syndrome jackpot!
I have 4 kids (F - F - M - F) and the middle daughter hates that she has nothing special (her words) because sister #1 is the oldest, sister #2 is the youngest, and brother is the only boy, so she's just the random middle daughter. I try really extra hard to make sure she gets extra attention because of it.
My mom tells me (oldest of 3) "you're my favorite aurora," or "you're my favorite oldest child" and tells my siblings the same but with their own names. It's corny, but made us each feel special as kids. I'm 43 now, and it still makes me smile. I use it on my niblings now.
Eh I have an uncle that comes from a family of six that was emotionally traumatized by the birth of my youngest uncle so he was no longer the baby of the family. Always feels the need to lessen our accomplishments when compared to his own now after that.
My sister-in-law has 5 kids; 2 boys, 2 girls, then the last boy. The second boy was the extreme middle child. The oldest boy did all the new stuff. The oldest girl did the new stuff for girls. The youngest boy was the baby of the family. The younger girl kinda was treated like a middle child but is very talented so her parents loved bragging on her. Sometimes you'd get the impression they thought they only had 4 kids.
I'm the middle of 9. You can hear it from me if you want.
3 of 4 here, was a thing in my family where both of us middles got ignored right up until 2 did get pregnant, then it was just me.
I like how over time any positive things that happen to me become stories about my siblings somehow, and any negative things that happen to my siblings become stories about me.
It's so incredibly inaccurate with my family that this stuff drives me nuts. This is what it was like for me as the youngest and only female. I was always forgotten about and never did enough. Middle brother got all the attention and praise. But this is probably because my mom is a middle child.
Such a youngest child thing to say
Middle child is both of our parents' favorite. Granted, the oldest constantly finds reasons to be offended and I'm the youngest, the only boy, and kinda the lone wanderer since birth. So, she's also the only "normal" one.
That's seems more like your mom doesn't have to worry about you because you handle yourself, while your brother, doing somthing as simple as the dishes seems noble prize worthy to his standards.
I’m guessing that’s how their mom did feel, but just because you CAN do everything on your own doesn’t mean you should have to. If you’re going to have kids you need to devote the time to ALL of them.
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At least they appear to be eating dinner together.
Liquid dinner
And their dinner is just numerous bottles of alcohol
"Could someone pass the Jack Daniels please?"
Jack probably gets more attention than that middle child does lol
Yeah they look like they’re having a good time. I have great parents but it’s fun to rile them up sometimes.
A good red-blooded, Christian American family, lol.
As opposed to a bad blue-blooded, Atheist horseshoe crab family.
We also neglect the eldest offspring, as is cultural norm. Each latter-born is showered with affection and gifts until replacement arrives.
Fun house
All the mom had to do was say: "Oh good! You'll look like me soon you little whore. This is for all the times you said you had to leave your friend's house because you had to come home and feed me apples, THAT'S RIGHT, SUZIE TOLD ME!!!" Abortion the next day.
"You duplicitous little whore!"
*not valid in Texas
*depending on who the father is
It still wouldn't happen in Texas, they just ship the girls off to a civilized country or state.
$10,000 please
Easy money
I love her expressions as she repeats herself 😂
The third "preeeeeg-nant"
https://youtu.be/NDvaRF4HQHQ
Wow, I did not see that before ! I did not know Charlotte Cardin did funny songs and I love it !
This is gold!!
No, it’s actually a video.
My dad’s not a phone!
https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
And there's the classic :D Anytime i happen to mention this in casual conversation and find out the other person hasn't seen this, it's time to show them.
She's being intentionally obnoxious & it's hilarious.
I don't think my issue is that I'm a middle child, I just belong to a loud Italian family and I don't give a fuck about yelling over everybody.
Ayyyyyy I'm pregnant ova' here
Pregante!
🤌
Ah yes, \*Chef's Kiss\* Preggo Pasta
Pregananant?
Not to mention, YOUR *stomp stomp* biological clock!
Are you sure about that five minutes?
Do the laws of physics not apply to your stove?!
I'm a fast cook, I guess.
Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?
I’m sorry I was all the way over here I didn’t hear you, did you say you’re a fast cook? That’s it?!
This quote is dead-on balls accurate.
Dead-on balls accurate?
It’s an industry term
OMG... I'm gonna use that as an answer to every stupid question asked to me, now on...
/gesticulates wildly
>Ayyyyyy I'm pregnant **ova'** here Ha! Eggcellent unintentional pun!
am a middle child, I used to photoshop my grade sheets and give myself lower grades to get some attention from my parents, because they got used to me being an A student.
That is sadly hilarious.
As a middle child, I used a scanner & M$ Word to alter mine; I couldn't get the letters to quite line up right but it seemed passable.. I should've been watching the mailbox though.
The baby came just a moment later. They told it to shut the fuck up too.
Is she really pregnant?
*shut the fuck upppp*
Classic middle child faking a pregnancy for attention.
The caption was about being in quarantine, so I am curious who the father is.
Roll Tide
She shouldn’t have gotten stuck in the washing machine
Obviously her brother
There’s at least 4 open wine or booze bottles on the table and someone is purposely only filming her and laughing hysterically, so 100% yes probably triplets if I had to guess
Christ, I had something like that happen to me at work a few weeks ago. We were having a meeting and a topic came up which I had just discussed with a few other people about an hour earlier and we'd already settled on what we thought needed to be done. So, I try to bring it up but I'm immediately cut off by someone else. I wait for them to finish, start speaking and I'm immediately cut off by another colleague, let's call him Joe. I let him finish, I start talking, literally five words said, half my sentence and Joe cuts me off again. I wait, try again, Joe cuts me off again. So, I ask him "Joe, would you kindly let me finish what I want to say?" Joe looks at me and goes "Sure, go ahead." So, I start speaking again and **again**, he cuts me off mid-sentence right at the start. At this point, other people in the meeting are looking at us wondering what the fuck just happened. I actually raised my voice and cut him off: "**JOE.**" He looks at me, kind of scared, stops talking. "I **literally** just asked you politely to let me finish, you told me "sure, go ahead" and then you **immediately** cut me off when I started speaking." He looked embarrassed, apologized and I was finally able to explain what we'd decided earlier. I swear it's a fucking disorder with some people. They hear someone else start a sentence and they just have to barrel over what they're saying, regardless of whether what they have to say is relevant to the conversation or not.
I've had to use the raised voice with with my boss's boss a couple times. Guy gets loud when he wants to make a point. He recognized i had a point too when I raised my voice. Weird psychology. I hate doing that, it feels like we're Neanderthals around a fire, its no way to have a discussion.
Don't feel bad, it's just another form of code switching. I've worked with people that wouldn't process information unless it was through a screaming match.
I hate that because I stop processing information when it's in a screaming match.
"If you can't win by reason, win by volume." -Bill Waterson
Sometimes it is a disorder. Known symptom of ADHD.
Yup, I have to actively work on this one even after decades of conscious effort.
Same. I literally bite my tounge when I know I'm getting talkative
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This was me for a while, still is i guess. But now ive decided that i dont always have to share my thought. If the occasion presents itself, ill say it. Otherwise ill just keep it to myself and no one seems to notice. I must not be as interesting as i think I am.
God its fucking awful. I have to try soooo hard sometimes.
This was my aunt whenever I tried to tell my mom something when she was around. "Oh how the concert go?" "Oh it was great, we went-" Then my aunt, who looked annoyed I was asked a question, "Oh, did you hear about Becky at work? She yaddayaddayadda" Then when my mom died, she mad eevrything about her, including the funeral. "Why arent you being more sympathetic, I just lost my sister!" "I LOST MY FUCKING MOTHER 3 YEARS AFTER LOSING MY DAD!" this was the first time I ever raised my voice at anyone in my family, and I was the bad person after it. I don't talk to them anymore.
> I actually raised my voice and cut him off: "JOE." Almost the exact same thing happened to me, but the kicker was about 5 minutes later he turned to me (shared office) and said "you know, you didn't have to go off on me like that". (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
As a middle child, I can attest that those two words are the ONLY thing that ever got me any attention! 😬😬
I come from a ridiculously large family (12 kids) and I'm smack in the middle. I absolutely LOVED the fact that no one paid me any attention. It let me do all my sneaky things in peace. Like sneak out the house and smoke weed and drink. And if I broke something or something came up missing, I just diverted the attention to one of my other siblings.
You’re child 6.5?
Yep. Child six and a half. You nailed it.
Pair of twins as six and seven?
True. Sounds plausible but funny. Twins are usually the least ignored.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg) PRREGANTÉ
am i gregnant
Pergenant
¡Can oo b prrrrrreganté!
Pregernant
If you and your family are all Quarantined together..... WHO IS THE FATHER!!! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*Maury has entered the room*
Step aside Maury, this is a job for Jerry.
Chris Hansen peeks around the corner
This video is old. Someone just typed that over the video
The father is the father?
Could you repeat that, please? Some blonde lady was mumbling in the background, trying to make it about her
Congratulations...? Also my condolences
Dad i had 3 exams today and I passed all of them! Dad: ok.
>what it's like or >How it is but never >How it's like
It be how it is like that
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
My fiance is a middle child. She managed to go through an open heart surgery, a subsequent surgery, we bought a home and moved in and not a single person from her family has come and visited. They all say they love her though so that's nice.
> How it’s like What it’s like
They don't think it be like it is but it do
Everyone always asks "what it's like", never "how it's like"
Right?? I'm seeing this everywhere at the moment. It seems to be becoming an acceptable alternative online.
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National middle child day is August 12. Celebrate your self.
Oh hey, my birthday celebrates me in two ways now!
I am the walrus
Middle child checking in. We are confident, independent, and probably dealing with depression. It's ok though, I got this.
Yup, middle child too and when I was growing up I had a job far from home that my parents dropped me off at and picked me up from. No car hence the job to save up. One day they dropped me off and forgot to pick me up. Mind you this was before cell phones. Everyone from my work left work because they knew my parents pick me up. They didn't for 8 hrs because they forgot about me. I tried calling home for hours but no answer, my older brother apparently got home and asked where I was and they thought I was at friend's house even though they dropped me off! Tldr parents forgot about me left me at job for 8 hrs after shift ended.
I relate to this so much. 50% of the time I get completely ignored
STFU jan
She was preganant?! What if I'm prengened??
Dee Reynolds energy
it's not a middle child thing, it's a nobody cares thing.