#middle child problems

[allmyhomieshatelawns]

being a middle child sucks not bc you’re ignored the most but bc you become the worst parts of both your parents. i hate this

[tsivitah]

📓 Diary Entry 002:

🧷 I WAS ROBBED OF MY SECOND CHILD POSITION.

I’m 25 now. Which means my brain is ALLEGEDLY fully developed. And as the days go by, I keep getting these flashbacks—like little surprise memory postcards from my kindergarten and primary school days...

And let me just say:

I could’ve been SOCIAL.

I could’ve been COOL.

Gosh, I could’ve had whatever spark my younger brother carries now.

BUT NOOOOO.

Someone 💀—or should I say SOMEONES—left a spot vacant and I was FORCED to fill it.

Suddenly I had to be smart.

I had to like books.

I had to be the “focused one.”

LIKE FAAAAAAQ MAN 🙄

All my prehistoric social skills?

✨Wasted.✨

They never got to evolve.

And do you know how hard it is to FOCUS under the pressure of perfection???

ROBBED. I was ROBBED, I tell you. 😭💀

Anyway… what webtoon am I gonna read today?

[robynwastaken]

”oh it’s so hard for me being related to you, why are you trying to be emo you’re not cool”

bitch, not once have i said i was trying to be cool. we do this shit cause we like it, not cause it’s cool. your life is hard because you have a brother who wears eyeliner? wait until you find out you’ve got two sisters who wear eyeliner

for someone who claims to be woke and owns a battle jacket, you like harry potter, don’t see the issue with playing misogynistic video games, and hate alt people

not very woke of you methinks you fucking poser

[yellowhollyhock]

I'm tired of being the main character. I wanted to be a background dancer

[fuck-sporks]

Anybody know the feeling of just never wanting to be involved with your family again? Like it’s been years on minimal contact but they still ask for you to come to life events. My younger sibling is having a important birthday this year but I haven’t talked to them in years and parts of me just dread being in the same room as my mom and siblings because I just don’t feel connected to them.

With my mom it’s like she doesn’t ever care. Never contacts me except to ask when she can visit me but won’t ever come when I tell her when she can. Texts me to tell me she thinks of me every 3-4 months but doesn’t ever want to talk on the phone or through text. It’s gotten to the point that I put off seeing her and when I finally do relent and come to her it’s just stale. She talks until she’s done and doesn’t ask me about my life or my spouse. I always end up leaving the interaction upset and put off.

I don’t dislike my siblings but I’m just not close to them anymore and I just always think that if I wasn’t related to these people they would never talk to me. They are much closer even though there’s a large age gap between them. I never talk to the younger one (it’s always one word replies so I stopped trying) and the older one only talks to me if I reach out first. Sometimes I’m upset about it but I’ve always felt like an outsider; it’s why I moved away for college. I’ve never felt important enough to anyone in my family. It’s part of what caused my depression in my teenage years because I just never felt like I mattered to a single person.

It’s not like I hate my family. I wish all the best for them and that they have fulfilling lives. It’s just I could never contact them again and I would be happy where I am in my life without them. We’ve gone through hard times together but it didn’t make us stronger like I thought it would. I’ve just wanted to stay away and live my own life.

I can’t decide if that makes me a bad person or not.

[liggy-not-potter]

remind me why my brother got two pairs of nice shoes when he already has two pairs that are wearable and i got a cheap set of ugly sneakers from walmart for work when i have one pair of shoes that isn’t falling apart at the seams and that one pair of shoes is faux fur-lined and very not fit for summer wear

[alaskan-wallflower]

i never realized how much being a middle child blows ass like damn i have to be the example AND abide by the example? and on top of that i have to stop everyone in my family from fighting all the time by acting like a goofy ass crackhead?? AND THEN i have to play peacekeeper and get my ass whooped because then i’m the one they all get mad at because ‘i don’t know when to be quiet? damn can i have a refund?

[fafi-shal]

It has been years but I'm still salty about my middle school graduation.

My dad was busy with work, and my mom was too lazy attend. Only my sister showed up

The problem is that my mom drove me and my sister for the graduation event, went home, then picked us up when it ended. Like she drove us back and forth, she might as well have just sat through the ceremony, but noooooo