My brother sent this to me as he said this fits me to a tee, especially the "manipulative" description.

 

I raise my glass to any forumer who is the "youngest" child in their family.  Unite!!

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By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor

 

All men may be created equal; but a look at their pay stubs will tell you that their incomes are not.

 

Blame it on social class, education -- even luck, but according to Dalton Conley, New York University professor of sociology and public policy, inequality begins at home. In his book 'The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why,' Conley says that 75 percent of the income inequality between individuals in the United States occurs between siblings in the same families. He points to the diverse fortunes of Bill and Roger Clinton, and Jimmy and Billy Carter as examples.

 

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This is a fun topic. There is a ton of truth to birth order.

Interesting stuff.  My situation is not easy to peg into a whole here.  I only have one biological sibling, an older sister.  But I have a slightly older adopted brother who did not join our family until we were in our teens.  I also have three younger step-sisters.  So, technically, I am both a youngest child and a middle child.

I am first!  I am an engineer :).

My little brother does technical stuff for theatre and media, but I guess that's considered the arts/journalism, nonetheless.

I'm the youngest, and I work in the IT field.  However, I'm the only one of the kids in my family that enjoyed art. 

 

I read somewhere years ago that the first two kids in a family are usually very different from each other.  That seems to be the case in most families I know.

I'm the youngest, and I work in the IT field.  However, I'm the only one of the kids in my family that enjoyed art. 

 

I read somewhere years ago that the first two kids in a family are usually very different from each other.  That seems to be the case in most families I know.

 

True in our case.  My brother and I are like night and day.   

• We don't look alike.  He looks like the men my fathers family, I look like my mothers father.
  
• He's brawn, I'm brains.
  
• He's has no style or taste (evident by my skank-in-law), I've got it going on in that department.
  
• He's cheap, I'm not.
  

The only thing we have in common is a bad temper.

I am first! I am an engineer :).

My little brother does technical stuff for theatre and media, but I guess that's considered the arts/journalism, nonetheless.

 

I'm the first and I'm also an engineer!

 

My little sister is going to UC to be a nurse... not exactly artsy / creative.

I'm hard to peg to a category too. I have an older brother and an adopted sister, but she's 15 years younger than me, so she doesn't really count.

 

As far as my brother and I, he's a plumber and I work in accounting. Neither of us is particularly creative, conscientious, charming, or ambitious. He's lucky if he can hold down a job for more than 3 months in a row, (I swear he's been fired from every factory in North East Ohio) and I dropped out of college because I got bored studying chemical engineering (I much prefered studying a certain redheaded Art History student over at Kent State).

 

My wife, who is an older sibling, got her degree in Art History, (apparently she was better at ignoring me than I was at ignoring her) while her little brother is a mechanic. So they don't really fit the description either.

Interesting.  I am the youngest of 2. My older sister definitely outscored me in all academic achievements, was pratically a straight A student, is way smarter than me, has been on Jeopardy, has a master's degree.  However, she has a job that is much lower than mine on the totem pole and doesn't make anywhere near the $ I make.  I don't make a lot, she just makes very little. 

Younger siblings rule.  :whip:

 

Like I tell my parents, as was an "after thought" when we were kids, but its me who will decide if you get shipped off to Shady Pines or be locked under the steps!!!

 

Something that irates me to no end, is when my father introduces me to people.  He always says, "this is my youngest son...." but when he introduces my brother or my middle nephew it's "this is my son / grandson ...".  He does it when my brothers not even around. 

I'm the youngest of two boys (aka the baby of the family). Occasionally my Mom will introduce me as "this is my baby" and instead of being embarrassed, I wear it like a badge of honor (or a tiara, take your pick). I'm also a Taurus. My friends have said I was probably like Stewie on "Family Guy", I don't totally disagree. :evil:

I'm the younger of two boys.  My brother did better in school than i did, but i wouldn't really say he's more successful.  We've both got advanced degrees and have relatively high paying jobs.

 

I think i am more creative than he is...and he's more athletic.

 

Anyway...i don't think it's fair to consider Tiger Woods an only child.  I mean, he has half-brothers and a half-sister and a niece that's trying to break into the LPGA.

If you thought the family in Everybody loves Raymond is fictional, you are soooooo wrong!

I'm the youngest of two boys (aka the baby of the family). Occasionally my Mom will introduce me as "this is my baby" and instead of being embarrassed, I wear it like a badge of honor (or a tiara, take your pick). I'm also a Taurus. My friends have said I was probably like Stewie on "Family Guy", I don't totally disagree. >:D

 

Mom my does that but it's so embarrassing to hear, "this is my baby" or "you know, no matter how old you are, you'll always be my baby".  and I hate it when she calls me "chulo" or "chamo".  ugh.

 

See you were like Stewie, and I was like Dextor on Dexter Laboratory! 

^don't you mean papi chulo? lol

 

wow, I'm third out of three--I guess this explains why I didn't get into Harvard :cry: Well, that and my mediocre grades, weak SATs and poor family pedigree...

^don't you mean papi chulo? lol

 

wow, I'm third out of three--I guess this explains why I didn't get into Harvard :'( Well, that and my mediocre grades, weak SATs and poor family pedigree...

 

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

I'm the youngest of 6.  I am charming and creative.  :)

I'm the youngest of 6.  I am charming and creative.  :)

 

Six??  :o  Damn!  That seems overwhelming.  How far apart in age are you kids?

^don't you mean papi chulo? lol

 

wow, I'm third out of three--I guess this explains why I didn't get into Harvard :'( Well, that and my mediocre grades, weak SATs and poor family pedigree...

 

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

why? I always thought it was a compliment (well, you know, in a slangy way) Some girl yelled that at me one night on the street (and I'm old!)--oh no, could it have negative connotations??  :oops:

^don't you mean papi chulo? lol

 

wow, I'm third out of three--I guess this explains why I didn't get into Harvard :'( Well, that and my mediocre grades, weak SATs and poor family pedigree...

 

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

why? I always thought it was a compliment (well, you know, in a slangy way) Some girl yelled that at me one night on the street (and I'm old!)--oh no, could it have negative connotations??  :-[

 

Because so many people use it as a term of endearment and dont know any other word or very few words in Spanish.

 

I've had people say "Pa", "Papi", "Papa", "Papo" and it just turns me off.  Mostly its people who try to pick you up and call you that because they think its "cool".  Its just a major turn off to me.

 

I'm old school PR, "papi" or "papi chulo" is something that grand mothers call their grand children.

I'm the youngest of 6.  I am charming and creative.  :)

 

Six??  :o  Damn!  That seems overwhelming.  How far apart in age are you kids?

 

In fairness I have one blood sibling (sister).  The other 4 are my stepbrothers... though I was 4 when my parents got divorced and remarried... quite the brady bunch situation.  When you grow up punching eachother over who gets the bathroom, you tend to drop the 'step' from the brother.  So 6 between the ages of 33 (me) and 40.

I'm the youngest of 6.  I am charming and creative.  :)

 

Six??  :o  Damn!  That seems overwhelming.  How far apart in age are you kids?

 

In fairness I have one blood sibling (sister).  The other 4 are my stepbrothers... though I was 4 when my parents got divorced and remarried... quite the brady bunch situation.  When you grow up punching eachother over who gets the bathroom, you tend to drop the 'step' from the brother.  So 6 between the ages of 33 (me) and 40.

 

Good God!  although I wanted a younger sibling, as sister, to spoil, I don't think I could live with that many people.  It was bad enough sharing a bathroom with my brother for 7 years.

 

I dont think I could live with that many people.  8 people in one house. lawd.

^don't you mean papi chulo? lol

 

wow, I'm third out of three--I guess this explains why I didn't get into Harvard :'( Well, that and my mediocre grades, weak SATs and poor family pedigree...

 

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

why? I always thought it was a compliment (well, you know, in a slangy way) Some girl yelled that at me one night on the street (and I'm old!)--oh no, could it have negative connotations??  :-[

 

Because so many people use it as a term of endearment and dont know any other word or very few words in Spanish.

 

I've had people say "Pa", "Papi", "Papa", "Papo" and it just turns me off.  Mostly its people who try to pick you up and call you that because they think its "cool".  Its just a major turn off to me.

 

I'm old school PR, "papi" or "papi chulo" is something that grand mothers call their grand children.

I see what you mean... I've even gotten self-conscious ordering poppy bagels now after the time the person behind the counter (who I believe was Mexican) repeated the word while smirking at a co-worker! lol

I am first! I am an engineer :).

My little brother does technical stuff for theatre and media, but I guess that's considered the arts/journalism, nonetheless.

 

When I was younger I didn't know what an engineer was, now I are one!

 

(who says engineers can't right?!)

"Papi" will make me slap someone. Seriously.

 

Oops.  I think I called you that on here once.  Sorry!

I am the middle of 3 boys.  The descriptions in the article describes us to a 'T' for the most part.  Although my younger brother isn't extraordinarily creative I am definitely the peacemaker and by far the most peer-oriented.  My older brother (26) is married with kids on the way and settled down, my younger brother is 22 and with the girl he is going to marry, and my parents always act is if I'm the unnormal one (in a loving way of course) because I tend to be a little more wild and do tons of things with my friends and am single.  I think a lot of it definitely has to do with our birth order.

 

My older brother is a clone of my father, very structured (clean cut, very organized, a worrier) and somewhat uptight.  I am exactly like my mother (enjoy partying a little too much, very very laid back, can get along with literally anyone, very unorganized and nearly always have some facial hair...no my mother does not have facial hair).  My youngest brother is a mix between the 2 of us.

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

Oops.  I think I called you that on here once.  Sorry!

 

I dont mind when women say it. (honestly, I kinda like it)  It's the desperate and h---y men that irrate me.

I am the middle of 3 boys.  The descriptions in the article describes us to a 'T' for the most part.  Although my younger brother isn't extraordinarily creative I am definitely the peacemaker and by far the most peer-oriented.  My older brother (26) is married with kids on the way and settled down, my younger brother is 22 and with the girl he is going to marry, and my parents always act is if I'm the unnormal one (in a loving way of course) because I tend to be a little more wild and do tons of things with my friends and am single.  I think a lot of it definitely has to do with our birth order.

 

My older brother is a clone of my father, very structured (clean cut, very organized, a worrier) and somewhat uptight.  I am exactly like my mother (enjoy partying a little too much, very very laid back, can get along with literally anyone, very unorganized and nearly always have some facial hair...no my mother does not have facial hair).  My youngest brother is a mix between the 2 of us.

I'm so glad you cleared that up.  LOL

 

I wonder how many people have charasteristics of their parents.

 

My nine year old neice, my 13 year old nephew, my brother, my father and his father are the same person!  It's scary.  They all have the same mono-tone dry sarcastic personality.  My Grandfathers is seasoned with extra attitude. 

 

On the flip side, my two cousins and I could be triplets and my oldest nephew looks (and acts, minus the gay thing) just like me.  So much, that people always mistake me for father, much to the chagrin of my skank-in-law.  Of course I'm far to young to have a teenage kid.  My mom definitely passed on her artsy-fartsy/creative gene to me along with her families quick temper.  I still don't get what she saw in my Dad.  :wtf:

I'm the same person as my dad...unfortunately i also look a little too much like him (he's 62, i'm 30).

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

LMAO!  Oh God, I could go so many places with that one.  Whenever my father and I disagree on something he'll say, "You act just like your ma'ma."

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

 

Uh huh.  so youre a mom and pop?  (sorry, I have this new Mariah song in my head)

 

Well I am the 3rd of 4 but I am the eldest boy so I think I have more eldest sibling char. than anything else. 

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

 

Uh huh.  so youre a mom and pop?  (sorry, I have this new Mariah song in my head)

 

Well I am the 3rd of 4 but I am the eldest boy so I think I have more eldest sibling char. than anything else. 

 

 

Says UO's biggest 'Mo!

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

 

Uh huh.  so youre a mom and pop?  (sorry, I have this new Mariah song in my head)

 

Well I am the 3rd of 4 but I am the eldest boy so I think I have more eldest sibling char. than anything else. 

 

 

Says UO's biggest 'Mo!

 

ha.  you would know. 

I look like my Pop but act a LOT like my Mom.

 

Uh huh.  so youre a mom and pop?  (sorry, I have this new Mariah song in my head)

 

Well I am the 3rd of 4 but I am the eldest boy so I think I have more eldest sibling char. than anything else. 

 

 

Says UO's biggest 'Mo!

 

ha.  you would know. 

 

I have one word to counter that  --  GREECE! 

well again, you would know what goes on in greece.  how many times have you been to Mykonos? 

well again, you would know what goes on in greece.  how many times have you been to Mykonos? 

 

Only once Boo.

interesting to see several others with the "not sure how I should be classified" label like me.

 

I was an only child until I was 10 when my mom re-married (my biological father died when I was young).  I then had (have) two step-brothers...one older, one younger.  Then my half-sister was born.

 

Somehow I identify with all groups.  My step-brothers were living under a shared custody arrangement.  So depending on what week (and year) it was and how you looked at it, I was the youngest in the house, the oldest in the house, or the middle.

 

Also interesting being a part of a family where I am the only one who has my last name...

I'm the first. I was supposed to be the only, but then 'whoops' I had a brother 5 years later. He's been making them rue that slip up ever since.

I'm the first. I was supposed to be the only, but then 'whoops' I had a brother 5 years later. He's been making them rue that slip up ever since.

 

Hey there is nothing wrong with being an "accident".  I'm an accident myself, my brother and I are 11 months, and 1 day apart.  Us "whoops" usually turn out to be the better child!  HUMPH!! 

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

Oops.  I think I called you that on here once.  Sorry!

 

I dont mind when women say it. (honestly, I kinda like it)  It's the desperate and h---y men that irrate me.

 

No wonder you got so irritated when EVD called you Papi! :)

"Papi" will make me slap someone.  Seriously.

 

Oops.  I think I called you that on here once.  Sorry!

 

I dont mind when women say it. (honestly, I kinda like it)  It's the desperate and h---y men that irrate me.

 

No wonder you got so irritated when EVD called you Papi! :)

 

LOL  LOL  LOL

 

Hey there is nothing wrong with being an "accident". I'm an accident myself, my brother and I are 11 months, and 1 day apart. Us "whoops" usually turn out to be the better child! HUMPH!!

 

My mom says that I'm the bonus. 

 

Hey there is nothing wrong with being an "accident".  I'm an accident myself, my brother and I are 11 months, and 1 day apart.  Us "whoops" usually turn out to be the better child!  HUMPH!! 

 

My mom says that I'm the bonus. 

 

"Bonus"!  LOL

My folks had planned on having me a few years later but apparently I wasn't having it. I do recall telling my Mom at age 4 that "if you have another kid, I'll STILL be the baby!". Good thing they didn't - I probably would have shoved it down the steps :evil:

I tipped my brother's crib over when he was a baby, because I was so jealous.

My folks had planned on having me a few years later but apparently I wasn't having it. I do recall telling my Mom at age 4 that "if you have another kid, I'll STILL be the baby!". Good thing they didn't - I probably would have shoved it down the steps >:D

 

I tipped my brother's crib over when he was a baby, because I was so jealous.

Thats kid stuff. 

 

Picture it....Shaker....1978.....

 

My brother and I would try to kill each other.  We were especially nasty to one another between the ages of 12/13 and 16/17.  It was like the war of the rose up in our house.

 

Since I would bruise easy, my brother would punch me in places my mom wouldn't look.  One time he punched me in the leg and tripped me down the stairs.  All the way down our back steps.  :x 

 

My brother is scared - actually petrified - of clowns even to this date. [if he sees a clown he's libale to pee on himself.  LMAO].  When he would piss me off I would throw Bozo the clown at him.  Throwing Bozo at him was the equivalent of shotting someone with a stun gun.  ;)

 

Since he pushed me down the stairs, I plotted  >:D    and as I would always tell him, "you'd better sleep with one eye open tonight, cause I'm going to make you suffer!"  I didn't get him that night...so I waited until he let his guard down.

 

One morning (it had to be a Saturday) my parents went over to my aunt/uncles house, and my brother was in the shower and the maid wasn't there.  Opportunity knocked, and I answered.  >:D >:D >:D

 

My brother and my bedrooms were connected by a Jack-n-Jill bathroom.  I went into his bedroom, and closed and locked the door from that side of the room, using the skeleton key my parents didn't know I was in possesion of.  I then went back to my bedroom and pulled out bozo the clown, clarabell and raggedy Andy dolls and strategically placed them on the sink, the toilet and the floor right in front of the shower.  I then closed the door on my side of the room and locked it.

 

About two minutes later, my brother was in the bathroom screaming at the top of his lungs like Janet Leigh in phsyco.  It was earth shattering.  I left him in there for almost an hour.

 

Luckily my cousin tipped me off that he was coming back with my parents.  I knew I had about 5-7 minutes to unlock and put things away as they were coming from Scottsdale. 

 

When my parents returned home, I was in the TV room watching the TV and I was dressed in all white (imaging is everything).  My brother was in his bedroom and my cousin come downstairs and tells my mom, he wont let him in.  So my mother went up and the cry baby told my mother what happened.  My mother came downstairs and her notstills were flaring and she was already cussing in Spanish and beat the hell out of me.  She actually hit me with he shoe.  My cousin and my father were like WTF?  She didn't believe the I locked him in the bathroom, and I knew she wouldn't, so I had to admit to accidentally leaving the clown in the bathroom and apologize.  Then my father spanked me, right there in front of my cousin.  I remember thinking, you and I are the same height, how are you going to spank me??

 

Since my white outfit was all messed up, my brother had to be made to suffer even more. Every night I would leave the night light in my room, and position the clown at the threshold of the bathroom but inside of my room.  This way when my brother would approached the bathroom from his room the clown would be staring right at him.  He was so scared he would use the bathroom down the hall.

 

I would have gotten away with that for another month, but for some reason my father caught my brother in the hallway and asked what he was doing up and out of his bed in the middle of the night.  I still cant figure out why my dad was on our side of the house.  I got a beat you out of your sleep spanking.

 

Then my parents put two-and-two together and figured out why my brother hadn't been sleeping and peeing in the bed.  I was on punishment for two months, my mother laid it on me.  I think I did more manul labor around the house those two months, than I did my entire life.  I was on such a short lease.

 

A few days later, my parents assigned us to different bedrooms.  My brother picked the bedroom next to his bedroom and I moved to the back part of the house.  After that we only saw each other downstairs.

 

Ahh the memories.

Clearly this was written for MTS:

 

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Clearly this was written for MTS:

 

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

Hey I had to protect myself.  I was tall and super skinny and my brother was shorter than me but built.  Physiological warfare was my way of evening the playing field.

 

If my brother did something to me, he would think about the consequences of his actions.  I had his head so messed up at one point he thought I was trying to poison him.

MTS..That is pretty twisted...

 

Edit: I am the oldest out of three BTW.