Birth Order/Sibling Dynamics

[The Moonshiner]

I'm the middle child and idk these stereotypes you speak of so...
No my siblings and I wasn't raised the same. We're very different and one way wouldn't have worked for any two of us let alone all three.
My kids are so apart in age I don't any of it would apply.

 

[NotabitaiI]

idk these stereotypes you speak of so...

**Taken from an obscure questionable source writing about Alfred Adler**

First Child : perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organised, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.

Middle Child : mediator, compromising, diplomatic, avoids conflict, independent, loyal to peers, has many friends, a maverick, secretive, used to not having attention.

Youngest Child : manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, loves surprises.

Only Child : little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, cannot bear to fail, high expectations for self, more comfortable with older / younger people

 

[NotabitaiI]

Only Child : little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, cannot bear to fail, high expectations for self, more comfortable with older / younger people

So I read both the oldest and only child stereotypes to my family without telling them which was which and they were all hollering that the first one (only child) stereotype was 100% me

I was an only child til 8 and I feel like most people are temperamentally developed by then so it makes sense.

 

[The Moonshiner]

**Taken from an obscure questionable source writing about Alfred Adler**

First Child : perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organised, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.

Middle Child : mediator, compromising, diplomatic, avoids conflict, independent, loyal to peers, has many friends, a maverick, secretive, used to not having attention.

Youngest Child : manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, loves surprises.

Only Child : little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, cannot bear to fail, high expectations for self, more comfortable with older / younger people

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Then no.
I'm more like first child although some of that doesn't come close to fitting while a couple from middle child does.
My older brother is the other way around. He's everything from middle child that I'm not and also the few things from oldest that doesn't fit me.
My younger sister fits a couple for youngest. Doesn't fit most and too lazy for me to figure out much of what she really is.

 

[notabitail]

He's a chaos engineer

@chaos_engineer

 

[notabitail]

**Taken from an obscure questionable source writing about Alfred Adler**

First Child : perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organised, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.

Middle Child : mediator, compromising, diplomatic, avoids conflict, independent, loyal to peers, has many friends, a maverick, secretive, used to not having attention.

Youngest Child : manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, loves surprises.

Only Child : little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, cannot bear to fail, high expectations for self, more comfortable with older / younger people

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I'd be a mix between both first and middle.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

**Taken from an obscure questionable source writing about Alfred Adler**

First Child : perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organised, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.

Middle Child : mediator, compromising, diplomatic, avoids conflict, independent, loyal to peers, has many friends, a maverick, secretive, used to not having attention.

Youngest Child : manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, loves surprises.

Only Child : little adult by age seven, very thorough, deliberate, high achiever, self-motivated, fearful, cautious, voracious reader, black-and-white thinker, talks in extremes, cannot bear to fail, high expectations for self, more comfortable with older / younger people

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Honestly excluding the social stuff, I'm a pretty stereotypical middle child I think

 

[azurbanclucker]

First Child : perfectionist, reliable, conscientious, a list maker, well organised, hard driving, a natural leader, critical, serious, scholarly, logical, doesn’t like surprises, a techie.

Bahahahahaha not. Some applies. Organization and I had a pretty massive disagreement about age 3, and haven't spoken since. The only lists I make are for groceries, and I still forget half the stuff. And I cannot be serious, even in serious situations. I'm the annoying dude who'd be cracking jokes in the police interrogation as a coping mechanism.

Those traits can be any person though, regardless of birth order. Might as well be reading zodiac signs as truth at that point.

 

[chaos_engineer]

@chaos_engineer

 

[The Moonshiner]

who'd be cracking jokes in the police interrogation

That never ends well. It's like they have 0 sense of humor.