Everything You Thought You Knew About Younger Siblings Was A Lie
Younger siblings are set up to get the lesser of all things in life right from the beginning because their elder sibling and their parents have already been through all this, so who cares? Hand-me-down clothes. Predisposition about their actions, because big brother and/or sister acted like complete morons at whatever age the younger is experiencing at the time.
Simultaneously, they're assumed to get easier treatment, because parents want to make up for ruining the first child. Well, not quite.
Parents may, in fact, feel that way, but us younger siblings are far from fist-bumping and getting extra-special care from mommy and daddy because of it. In fact, we're basically just expected not to make the same mistakes our elder siblings did, while receiving the same treatment from our parents.
Um, can I get a collective, "WTF is up with that?!"
We don't whine about just having everything handed down to us throughout life, even let's be honest it's a bunch of bullshhh.
Us youngin's just have to roll with it because we've never known any better. Don't feel sorry for us, because we surely don't, unless you give us an Internet platform to complain into. That's beside the point because younger siblings do not complain endlessly about our second-hand lifestyles at all. Nope, not ever.
We definitely do not sit and wonder what it would've been like to have been the older sibling, and never wonder about being an only child. Nope, no way how.
We relish in the days of having some superior and more massive human absolutely wreak havoc on our lives because it made up a better person, right? Looking for some backup here. Backup I could've used backup when someone 2 years and 50 pounds my superior was sitting on me and tormenting me! Okay, time to complain, I lied! Being a younger sibling is absolutely hard! Woe is us.
Finally, we most certainly never sarcastically congratulate our elder siblings when they accomplish something because we now know we have to live up to that. That is not something we do.
We're happy for our elder siblings and just want the best for them. We don't have standards to live up to. We set our own standards. Our live's aren't just shadows of those born before us. We don't mind when teachers always said, "I remember your (brother/sister)." That didn't mess with our heads at all. Nope, us younger siblings are doing just fine.
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There, did I prove everything you thought about younger siblings wrong? Sure do hope so!