Only Child?
Only Child?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#0Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:25pmWho here is an "only" child? How does that make you different than those of us who grew up in big households?
#1re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:26pmI'm a self-involved diva bitch - but does that make me different?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#3re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:29pmI know several people on this board who I suspect to be only children.
#4re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:29pm
Basically - I have a half-brother and half-sister but they were raised in a different household. So for any psychological purposes, I am an only child, as that is how I was raised.
And you?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#7re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:52pmThey are so caring and giving. I'm the oldest of four, from the middle of six, from the youngest of 19.
#8re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:53pm
Only child here.
I say the independence that it fostered has better prepared me to survive in this wacky world.
My ex-girlfriend said that it has made me a self-centered, attention-starved know-it-all.
I'll bet it's somewhere in between. If and when my life is blessed with children, I have resolved to have two. :)
#9re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:54pmSOMMS, I'm betting you're either Irish or Italian.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:56pmDo you think only children are more sensitive and thin skinned once they become adults and are living away from home?
#11re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:57pmDepends on how they were raised. I was raised by one bitch-on-wheels of a mother, so in my case, no.
#13re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 12:59pmWow. French-Canadians with 19 kids??
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:01pmIsn't Celine Dion like the last of 86, or something like that?
#15re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:01pm
only children are lucky
they dont get beat up and pick on and there parents can spend all there mony on them.but they dont have any one to play with
#16re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:05pmYes, RJ, Miss Dion is the youngest of 16. We're probably related. I think I've got about 2700 cousins running around in Canada.
#17re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:07pmThat's funny I've got about 2700 illegitimate children running around in Canada.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#19re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:10pmLeem, that is the Jan Brady syndrome. I guess the grass IS always greener.
#20re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:12pmLiam, do you have a brunette afro wig by any chance?
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#21re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:42pm
nope I'm not an only child.. I have two brothers and a sister.
but this should blow your mind..
Random fact.. my grandmother is 1 of 21 children all by the same parents.. Then she also has two half siblings that her father had in a previous marriage..
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
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Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 1:42pm
Interesting re: thin skinned and sensitive comment. I'm an only child and was always aware of the stereotypes associated with being one. I tended to go out of my way to share more than others and realize that the world didn't revolve around me. However, I have always been very sensitive. I'm developing a thicker skin, but I never thought it had anything to do w/ being an only child. Perhaps it does...
As for making me different from people who have large families, I think I have a different type of relationship with my parents. I don't know how to describe it, but it's a very close relationship- as much as they drive me crazy, they are two of my best friends.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24re: Only Child?
Posted: 1/6/05 at 2:01pm
I'm the last of five, but also, as Bob Ross would say, a happy little accident.
There's a few years between me and my siblings and, even though we were raised in the same house, we weren't really raised as traditional 'siblings'. They were very much care-givers. It's only now, as adults, that we are dealing with each other as equals and it's quite nice.
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