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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think about people’s birth order at all. I think this a very odd way to characterize your interactions with others. I don’t even know the birth order of most people unless they are typically close friends already — so I don’t have issues with them to start with.[/quote]
Same here. Plus I wouldn’t normally think youngest in large family gets accommodated. The youngers usually have to go along with whatever is already in place for the older kids.[/quote]

Depends on the family, but I know several youngest children for whom this is not at all true. They were very doted upon by their parents and older siblings and continue to be as adults. Like I know a woman whose family consistently celebrated her birthday with a family trip every year until she was well into her 30s, even though they did not do this with any other sibling. It was definitely a "she's the baby!" thing. I do think her older brother got fed up with at some point and stopped participating.

But I come from a large family and my youngest sibling is not treated this way at all. He might have been babied a bit when he was a kid, but I don't really see any special treatment or babying of him as an adult -- I think our parents treat us all pretty equally at this point.[/quote]

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