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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Wow, I don't know any youngest that have been doted upon. Interesting.

Yes OP - I waver on whether there is any credence to the birth order theories, but generally, there are some common threads.

There are always exceptions. Onlys (onlies?) tend to have one personality, while oldest, youngest, middles (depending on size of family, of course) tend to have others.

Two important factors are size of family and spacing, which is why generalizations often do not apply. [/quote]

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