Birth Order/Sibling Dynamics

[notabitail]

Oh, and one of The Brothers got some kind of orangutan stuffed animal and that thing is a joy to throw. It has long floppy limbs.

 

[Addicted To Chickens]

I still throw stuffed animals at some of The Siblings. It's fun and helps my arm get strong-ish.

What the-

 

[NotabitaiI]

What the-

Apparently he's made of limp noodles, respect the grind

 

[notabitail]

Apparently he's made of limp noodles, respect the grind

I mean you're not wrong, one CRT monitor or bulky tower lifted the wrong way and I've thrown away a day-and-a-half on a bad back.

 

[saysfaa]

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It gets more complicated than that in the book because there is first born of all, first born male, first born female, and last born of all these. And things like whether the siblings live together, live with others too, have any serious illnesses or disabilities as children, and so on.

And large age gaps reset things to at least some degree. So a family with a son and daughter enough years older than another son and daughter could have four "first borns" even if the family stays a nuclear family.

Edit to fix grammar

 

[saysfaa]

I'm third of four. But the oldest girl, and we had a gap after my brothers that was long enough to reset the order thing according to the book. So I should be more first born than middle. I'm not; the list for middle child is pretty spot on for me except one aspect. The youngest is nearly completely opposite what the birth order things says. The other two are closer to what the book says but still have, at most, half the characteristics.

My husband is 6th of 7, has 4 older brothers, and is the youngest male. He is 6 years and 12 days younger than the oldest child. Then a gap large enough to reset the order thing, according to the book, before the youngest sister was born. He has nearly all the characteristics from the list for first borns, and nearly none from lists for the middle or youngest.

 

[notabitail]

It gets more complicated than in the book because there is first born of all, first born male, first born female, and last born of all these. And things like whether the siblings live together, live with others too, have any serious illnesses or disabilities as children, and so on.

And large age gaps reset things to at least some degree. So a family with a son and daughter enough years older than another son and daughter could have four "first borns" even if the family stays a nuclear family.

What does it say about first born males?

 

[saysfaa]

Just that being the first of either gender have more of the first born characteristics than middle born characteristics.

But it has been several years since I read it. If it said something more specific, I don't remember it. I did kinda skim the last part of the book - the last third, maybe.

 

[saysfaa]

Hm, or maybe it was more OF the characteristics of the first born than would otherwise be expected.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Apparently he's made of limp noodles, respect the grind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States