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What's it like being an only child?

MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm sure most people would say they want to know what it's like to have a bro or sis but are there any deep feelings of loneliness and disappointment of being an only child. - Sorry, I know that's pretty personal but I promise I won't tell anyone. :p:)

Again, sorry, I think this has been asked before but I couldn't find it.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I wish I knew. I've got three sisters and a brother, and they're all fucking mad.
  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I wish I knew. I've got three sisters and a brother, and they're all fucking mad.
    they are?? Isn't that like incest or something?!! ;)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Mad's not one of the family. He's an invisible giraffe, about three inches tall, who lives underneath the flowerpot. Or so they tell me.
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    i am an only child ... hard to say what's like as there are so many other life circumstances that play a role ... i would say that i wish i had an older sister for times when parents are parents ...

    also - there is a lot more pressure on one kid to take care of the parents when they get older ...
  • duffyduffy Posts: 74
    yeah all you only children out there...do tell. let us live vicariously through you. you spoiled brats! :D

    grass is always greener. the biggest pain in the ass about sibs is how they are a big barrier between yourself and your parents.
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    I'm an only child and the only time I was lonely was when I had a friend over and then they went home. It didn't really last long though. There are good things and bad things just like everything else. I liked it overall, not knowing anything different. :)
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  • Boom The CatBoom The Cat Posts: 482
    My situation is kinda strange, my family detached itself from me. So while I have parents and two sisters that I love, I'm not allowed to be with them. I currently stay far away with friends of the family who used to think of me as kind of a novelty, but that's worn off and they don't really speak to me much because they're jetsetters and never really around home much, so most of the time I'm on my own. Having sisters can be a pain, but I'm so glad I had them, I dunno what I'd do without them.
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  • HOOKERHOOKER Posts: 1,443
    Great
    Nice to know you.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I wouldn't know, I'm the accident, I mean baby of seven siblings!!
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I keep getting asked when I'm going to have my next child and I can't even decide whether it's a good idea or not yet. That's my reason for asking. :)
  • brainofmebrainofme Posts: 231
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I keep getting asked when I'm going to have my next child and I can't even decide whether it's a good idea or not yet. That's my reason for asking. :)

    do your child a favor and give him/her a sibling. as i've said in that previous thread, i always hated (and still do) being an only child. didn't really help that my parents divorced when i was six. not that i come from a rich family, but i really would have liked to trade half the toys i had, if only i had a sibling.

    of course there's always pros and cons, but i haven't figured out the pros for being an only child yet....
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  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    MCKB,
    First I'd like to say he really did kick butt tonight, including singing lead vocals on Black Diamond!

    second, I am not technically an only child but my brother is 14 yrs older and we weren't raised together, so I was raised as if I was one, and I didn't like it. I think having siblings teaches one how to socialize, be generous, share, and get along with other people better. I was spoiled also.

    and I always wanted a sister!
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,063
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I'm sure most people would say they want to know what it's like to have a bro or sis but are there any deep feelings of loneliness and disappointment of being an only child. - Sorry, I know that's pretty personal but I promise I won't tell anyone. :p:)

    Again, sorry, I think this has been asked before but I couldn't find it.

    I don't know.
    I miss igotid88
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,415
    Being an only child rocks... when growing up I had my own big room, car, and most importantly privacy. I wanted a sibling at one time... but you get used to being the only one. The way I look at it siblings are like friends that you have to hang out with ALL the time lol.
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  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    Only time I get a bad lonely feeling is when I'm on my way back home to a PJ tour, which has absolutely nothing to do with the lack of siblings
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  • audiodaveaudiodave Posts: 1,623
    duffy wrote:
    grass is always greener. the biggest pain in the ass about sibs is how they are a big barrier between yourself and your parents.

    I've never thought that the grass is greener...I have two older sisters and wouldn't have it any other way.

    I know it's difficult for me to know, but I really think I would have hated being an only child.
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  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    I love having my sis, would never want to be an only child :) ... but then again can never know what that is like either.

    One of my parents was an only child and so said they would never have only one child as they so wished they had a sib and would have liked three or four ... the other came from a large family and because of the hardships this caused kindof only wanted the one child. So I think it is more about the life experience than necessarily only child or not. My parents agreed on two :)
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Allie wrote:
    MCKB,
    First I'd like to say he really did kick butt tonight, including singing lead vocals on Black Diamond!

    Well that's some good news. I'm glad you had a great time!!

    hmmm okay, thanks people for your input. I can't really go any further with this without getting too personal. :)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i always planned on having 2 kids so that they could play and bother each other and not bug the shit out of me.

    whereas if i had one kid i'd have to actually do crap with them...

    plus if you have 2 or more kids it means you get more sex.

    so, in summation, have more kids as only children grow up to be serial killers.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    dunkman wrote:

    so, in summation, have more kids as only children grow up to be serial killers.

    Okay... I'll be back in a few minutes... ;)
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