Are you the oldest, youngest, only, or middle child in your family?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Poll question: Are you the oldest, youngest, only, or middle child in your family?

[flamingyouth]

1. Only n/t

[scarlet_owl]

2. I'm the oldest.

I have a younger sister who is 21 and a half-sister who is 12.

[JohnLocke]

16. Me too.

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. I'm an only.

NO WAY! right?

[polmaven]

8. Your parents evidently

saw no reason to try to improve on perfection!

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Exactly!

[jus_the_facts]

4. youngest of two girls.....

....I'm the crazy liberal rebellious one!!! :evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Last o' six

16 years after #5, too.

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. Dude.

You're an "old people having sex" baby.

;)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Yep. 51 and 49 respectively. Scary ain't it? (nt)

[SmileyBoy]

25. Well, my parents are 62 and 51 (and I'm only 21), so there!!!

:P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. You mom was 29-30 when you were born.

Mine was FORTY FUCKING NINE! I win! Hahahaha!

[Padraig18]

7. I'm the 11th, out of 14.

:D

[arcos]

11. wow...

:wow:

[Padraig18]

13. I see that reaction a lot, actually...

:P

[arcos]

19. hehehe...

I have just one younger sister, and I wouldn't be able to imagine being the oldest out of 14, hehehe. :P

[VOX]

43. That's not a family, that's a mob!

14 kids? There's bound to be some birthday overlap in that crowd. Holidays must be wild beyond imagination.

Hope you had more than one bathroom growing up!!! :)

[MuseRider]

12. I was the oldest of 3,

the older sister of 2 brothers and now the only remaining. SO I guess that means I get to stay the boss.

[marigold20]

14. Third of seven

We seemed to split into three "generations". The older two were one, the middle three were another, and the "babies" were the third group. The older ones were the trailblazers, we middle three were fairly mellow, and the babies - well they were awfully pampered.

[Piperay]

15. Oldest of two

I have one brother 3 and half years younger. :-)

[Skittles]

17. Second of six and the only girl

YES INDEED.

[DODI]

18. I always feel bad for the middle kids

One can be the youngest, one can be the oldest -- but untold numbers can be the "middle". We have two middles in my family. I wish there was another term.

[ms_splash]

20. Please, love me

Somebody, please love me...

(middle child)

[MrSlayer]

21. I'm the baby.

And I still get preferential treatment. Noah!

[AlFrankenFan]

22. Oldest

I'm 14, my brother is 12, and my two step-sisters (one by father/ step-mother and one by mom/ step-father) are almost six.

[SmileyBoy]

23. Older of two boys.

My brother is 15.

[bhunt70]

24. only!

[shanti]

26. oldest of three

n/t

[southerngirlwriter]

27. These poll results are not surprising.

Study any of the great birth order theorists (Adler is good; Kevin Leman is still alive and a lot of fun to read -- great sense of humor) and they will tell you that in a multi-child family, the oldest almost always has the highest IQ. No wonder there are so many firstborns here at DU. :D

[POed_Ex_Repub]

41. No.... No.. that can't be it..

I'm the youngest! :cry:

[afraid_of_the_dark]

54. Are there several years between you and your older sib(s)?

If that is the case, then most theorists would say that you are probably more like an only child.

[Nihil]

60. Hmmm

There's ten years between me and my next oldest sibling ...

I must admit, I didn't often feel hard done by simply because I was
the youngest and, at times, I definitely benefited as there were some
things I grew up with that simply didn't exist when my siblings were
that age.

(Edit: Sorry - thought you were replying to me ... oops ...)

[Nihil]

42. Pfffptptp!!

<Youngest of four blows large raspberry at another "eldest is bestest" supporter>

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

51. This last-of-six farts in yor general direction. (nt)

[Shananigans]

28. The only girl stuck in the middle between two brothers...

but I loved every minute of it. It's the perfect way to have 3 kids. The oldest gets recognition for being the oldest. The youngest gets recognition for being the youngest. And the one "stuck" in the middle was me! But because I was the only girl, I got spoiled in my own little way!

[Ksec]

31. Me too. Cept Im a boy.

always the forgotten one, the one who craves attention is a trait of Midys, also we are very well rounded and handsome. Ok I added handsome. Middle between two older and two younger

[fortyfeetunder]

38. Me too, but it ain't all dat...

I have mixed feelings about being a middle child/only girl...my parents were way too liberal with the boys. When Saturday night came, I was the one who had to stay in the house while the boys could party until the sun came up. Talk about someone who couldn't wait to leave home!!!

[Maine Mary]

29. I had to vote "other" because

in the words of one of my sisters after the birth of the youngest,

"Betsy is the oldest, ('I'm'...meaning my MEAN sister) am the middle, and Susannah is the youngest". "Well what does the make me"? I asked. "Nothing; you're nothing", she replied. :nopity:

I am the third of 4 girls. Am I really "nothing" or can there be more then 1 middle child? :-(

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. Your 2nd sister was de-throned by you as the "baby of the house".

Children often get P.O.'d by that. Take that into perspective.

[CanuckAmok]

30. Only. But I have a half-sister 15 years my junior.

And she inherited everything. Bitch.

[silverlib]

49. Similar...only and youngest

with a half-brother sixteen years my senior.

[CanuckAmok]

52. Sis, is that you?

You bitch, where's my slice?!

[silverlib]

63. It's me only if

you are a Republican living in Dallas, TX.

[DEM FAN]

32. I'm A Only.

:-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

33. Middle of five

Mom spawned in 1954, '55, '56, '57 and '61.
John
Two boys, three girls.

[ewagner]

34. Oldest of 5

Only one NOT ON PROZAC

[CO Liberal]

35. Middle Child, Only Son

My sister Adrienne is four years older than me - my sister Lynn is four years younger than me. My folks used to say they planned it that way so none of us would be in college at the same time.

[TSIAS]

36. Only. n/t

[bigwillq]

37. Other: All three!

I'm a twin so I guess I'm the oldest, youngest and in the "middle". But seriously, I'm younger than my sis by nine minutes!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

39. Kickin' it for the night crowd...

We've got a lot of "oldest" responses... almost half. Is there something about being the oldest that makes a person more likely to be a DUer?

[Nihil]

40. Some might say "maturity" ...

... but having read DU for a while I'm not too sure about that! :-)

(Personally, I reckon you're all trying to regain your youth and join
us "young" ones ...)

[afraid_of_the_dark]

56. Considering the time that you posted...

Maybe the question you should be asking is "Is there something about being the oldest that makes you more likely to stay up until all hours of the night and DU?"

EDIT: rotten grammar.

[curse10]

45. Big sister of two brothers

:-)

[Bertha Venation]

46. "Other???" Of course there's other: I'm the third youngest of four. eom

[terrya]

47. I'm the baby in my family.

:-)

Terry

[bif]

48. Oldest of three boys.

[supernova]

53. Youngest of three

My sister is the oldest. Brother is in the middle. :D

I am definitely the most liberal.

[trogdor]

55. So at least half of us are oldest or only...

...who'dafiggered?

Anyhoo, there are three of us, Me (center-left ex-GOoPer, and as POed as you), my brother in the middle (apolitical as they come), and my other brother the youngest, who has drunk so much of the Limbaugh Kool-Aid, he makes Ann Coulter seem liberal.

Sound familiar anyone?

[gyopsy]

57. Only child

We're "different." Trust me on that one.

[nini]

58. I'm the 5th of 6.

the 3 boys were first , then 3 girls. This makes me a "Jan Brady" kid. And yes, I was overlooked on many things because I wasn't the oldest girl or the baby :cry:


:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

59. Youngest, but only by 27 minutes.

and yes, we're identical.

[IconoclastIlene]

61. I am female sibling of brother, 4 years older/scholar/athlete.

My brother was such a great athlete and straight A student that I got pretty much left alone to do my own thing.

Thanks for doing all the hard work ahead of me, bro.

I got a free ride thanks in part to all your hard work!!!

LOL

[VOX]

62. Youngest of two brothers...

He: scholar, valedictorian, attended private college on scholarship, etc., apolitical, professional.

Me: good student, girl-crazy, anti-establishment, distrusting of authority, attended state college, liberal, professional.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. I'm in the middle...

Never bothered me. :D