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Oldest, by ten years. I think it’s shaped my personality but more so because my other sibling is a special needs child so I had to help out my folks a lot.

I’m the oldest of two younger brothers (I’m 21, they’re 18 and 16). I definitely agree that the sibling age placement influences people’s personalities. It’s actually one of the first things I pay mind to when it comes to dating :O)

I’m the oldest by 15 years. I am 23 and my little brother will be 8 in May.

I think it has taught me to be more patient and to love children even more, if that’s possible.

I’m the youngest. My sister is almost 11 years older than me BUT my nieces were born when I was 12 & 19 years old so I kinda feel like the middle child. LOL. I get to experience being the baby & being the middle child sort of. They dont call me Auntie but they tell people I am & I do see them often so I get the authority of being the older sibling/auntie. I still have the personality of the younger child with a bit of the middle spice in it.

I think it’s kind of questionable when taking examples of peacemakers to say that more than half of the US presidents fall in that category. The US doesn’t exactly have a very peaceful history.
But, I’m the oldest of three. My brother is 4 years younger than me and my sister 13 years younger than me. I have all the classic characteristics of an oldest child, but I’m also the family peacemaker.

I am my mom’s youngest and my dad’s only. My half brother is 10 years older and wasn’t around much. I don’t know what that makes me. I do know I had a lot of imaginary friends.

Im a middle on my moms side, youngest on my dads.. Middle to 2 half sisters, and 2 older brothers.. But my sisters are my moms, not my dads.. So Im both, haha

I’m the oldest of 4. I don’t really  think you would be able to tell by my personality…

Only child and I loved it! I think it’s great because we get the the usually good traits. Yeah, we may be a little (or a lot) spoiled too, but it’s a lot of fun!

I am the youngest, I have one brother who is 18 months older. Oldest siblings are supposed to be protective and responsible. My brother ran away when I was being bullied, made me walk home alone when I broke my arm and can’t make toast. Being the youngest I am supposed to be babied, spoiled, irresponsible and favorited. My brother is the favorite, I got grounded for things HE did and when he was getting bullied? I was the one who kicked the guys ass. So no I don’t believe the stereotypes

I’m the second oldest. I’m not really the oldest, middle, or youngest seeing as I have five siblings. I’m somewhere between the oldest and the middle. 

Oldest, and yes. Psychology wheee!

Technically, I’m the youngest. However, my brother has a learning disability so I’ve had to act as the oldest child for most of my life. I think that has shaped my personality more than my actual birth order.

Honestly, I’m all of the above.

Until I was about 9 years old I was the only child, then a year after my parents split up my mom started dating her still current boyfriend who had two children. They were both older than me (At 9 they were like… 14 (female) and 16 (male) or sometihng). They still lived with their mother three hours away, but over the next five years they both took turns staying with us for different periods of time. So I was sort of a youngest sibling in that respect. I sometimes consider my moms boyfriend my step dad, but even after 11 years or something he’s usually just my mom’s boyfriend. I occasionally consider the girl my sister, but we rarely speak anymore. After a lot of horrible experiences, I will never consider his son my step brother or brother, though. I hate thinking about or seeing him.

Then when I was 13 my father had a baby with another woman. They split up before he was born, and while they attempted to stay civil, my dad’s too grumpy and depressed and she’s a flake so we’re barely in his life. We see him for a few hours Christmas eve and maybe a couple other times a year. I really have no solid connection with him, and had extreme difficulties even interacting with him. I have no idea what to say to an 8 year old!

So, I’m an only/oldest/youngest/middle child… But mostly an only child. I do think it had a huge impact on my life. Like I said, I have extreme difficulty interacting with people under the age of probably 16 (I’m 21). I don’t know how to interact or deal wtih kids. I don’t undersatnd why they do things and why they can’t behave. I work in retail and kids try and talk to me and I end up just staring and blikning at them for the most part. My cousins 12 and I’m the horrible relative that says, “so… hows’ school. ”. Another aspect that I think being a mostly only child did is that I have difficulties interacting in general with people, especially spending a lot of time with them. I’m not used to spending days with another person. My parents mostly ignore me.

Only child woot woot! Well I acquired a step-brother a few years ago but I only see him when I visit my dad. Doesn’t really count I guess.

Oldest of four girls.

I’m 27, my the closest one to me is 26. The other two are 20 and 19. XD

Yes. It was crazy growing up! XD

I’m an only child. So I’ve got the best of both First an Last child status.

I’m the oldest of 10.  I have 4 sisters, 1 brother, 2 step-brothers, 1 step-sister and 1 half-brother: all younger than me!

I’m the middle, aka often most ignored. LOL I would say I am a peacemaker is loyal

I’m my father’s youngest and my mother’s middle. Yet i spent ages 5-12 as the only child in the house “/ So these “your personality is this — based on your birth order” doesnt really apply to me.

Being a baby means that at age 58, I still get the most attention from my 90 year old father.  My oldest brother is still the most responsible, and hardest working, yet doesn’t resent any of it.  My husband is    also a baby, which made for some interesting battle grounds when we first married.  His parents never refused him anything, never said no, never disciplined him, and the next child, the middle one, has refused to speak to him all his adult life.  Has even made claims of hating him and wishing he were dead, all for something his parents did.  I really tried to do better with my own.  I feel sorry for the oldest of the t.v. families the Duggars and the Bates, especially the girls, who do all the work.  I did very little.

I was raised as the oldest child, so there was a lot of responsibility thrust upon my shoulders at a young age. Growing up with unstable parents, I took it upon myself to take care of my siblings…however, I have a hard time taking care of myself, and learning when to stop.

I am an only child and its shaped my personality to be independent, opinionated, and eccentric. Ive learned to march to the beat of my own drum, yet I’m a team player. I don’t really feel like an only child, since I’ve grown up with people that are like my sisters. 

I’m the oldest of four, and I think that fact alone tells a lot about me. I think most of what researchers say about these things are true. Most of the time.

i agree with this. i can relate completely. i am the middle child of four.

Only, which makes me the youngest, middle, and oldest. 

I’m number 7 of 8 and the lists I’ve seen don’t generally apply to me

i’m an only child, and while i think birth order can have some impact on people, i also think people generalize WAY TOO MUCH about it.  i hate all the only child stereotypes.

I am the youngest by 13 years, which is a huge gap so I just consider myself an only child. I think I have both traits of the always- get-her-way bratty princess youngest child as well as independent and aloof only child. 

I’m a middle child. I do think we have it worse in terms of attention. We need to make our own attention or we get ignored…aha. Also we have to fight competitively for our food.

I can see how my older sister is more able to make large decisions, and my brother is definitely more babied.

I’m an only child, and I’m Mexican. 

Okay…. you lead us to believe you’re going to talk about all four possibilities, and then you give us a little drabble about one of them. WTF?

I agree with what @sorority_girl86@xanga said!  I’m an only child and feel her comment is spot on!

Oldest. I think it did but not much anymore.

I think someone should do a study on adopted children. I’m adopted and I was raised an only but I have a younger and older biological brother…I think I have traits of both. Somebody make me a scientific experiment!! hahaha (: