#oldest child

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[redz0nez9]

Nick & Chris, Under or Over rated duo???

[sleepy-vix]

[classycookiexo]

[lordofluxury]

hey oldest children, look at me. I see you. I see your pain and your grief. I know it hits but we’ve survived this much, just a little more okay

[nfltrdstories]

While growing up, I’m realizing I’ll probably never get the apologies I needed so badly when those wrongs were done. And that I’m, once again, the one responsible for fixing something I didn’t break.

[stalkingmyfriends]

I’ve been playing therapist, mother, babysitter, event organizer, doctor, and unpaid CEO for my family for to long

Where do I put in my two weeks notice?

[chr0nic--pessimist]

tori what was ur childhood like?

childhood? what's that? i'm the oldest. my childhood was a hand-me-down.

[cjrights]

i never answered this question do we have our final guesses??

[inksplashgirl]

Oldest Curse

I will always be there for you

Like no one was for me

I will be a phone call when you get dumped

I will be an alibi when you sneak out

I will be a place to stay when you’re fighting with our parents

And I will be

Your older sibling

Like I never had.

[geekyliteracy]

A round of applause for oldest daughter Dick Grayson everyone!

[sleepy-vix]

being an oldest child, especially in an immigrant family, means never even considering yourself worthy to be in any romantic relationships. it means feeling shitty as fuck whenever you get mad at your parents and shitty as fuck when you don't achieve high scores in school and make them proud. it means you hate to open up about anything and you don't like to lean on people or confide in anyone and that makes you seem cold and withdrawn and maybe that's true but also it's hard to be anything but. it means that you run away from affection and feel guilty for everything and constantly switch between feeling inferior and superior to everybody. you lie to seem like you're okay and you don't care and in the end, whether or not you lied doesn't matter anyways because you never had time or the emotional maturity to get close enough to anyone to make them care about you. you're logical and you're direct and you want to be helpful but all you can manage is to bite back your judgements and buy them a nice cold drink. people forget you. people think you're shallow and boring. people think you're self obsessed and people don't like you enough to look past all your buzzing insecurity to see your younger self begging to be at rest. you like mitski. you like reading and you hate sleeping and you feel bad about everything all the damn time and your inner monologue is constantly too loud and you often wish to die. at a very young age you crawled into yourself and hid away from everyone in order to juggle all the millions of responsibilities and expectations put on you by everybody around. in the end, being an eldest child means that you never got to be a child. the worst part is that you think it doesn't matter.

[connieaaa]

I'd like to find every person in my life who told me "you'll miss being a kid", and "being a kid is the best time of your life, enjoy it" and tell them all off. No, I do not miss being a kid. Being a kid sucks.

[pricelesscinemas]

[defleftist]

Being the oldest daughter of a divorced father means going home for the holidays involves such a great level of physical and emotional labor I don’t know that I classify this time as restful in the least.

[etherealspacejelly]

i have been every type of sibling at some point in my life and i think that explains why i am the way i am lmao

for the first 10 years of my existence, i was the youngest child. i had one brother who was 5 years older than me.

then my sister came along, and suddenly i was the middle child despite being the youngest for over half of my childhood at this point. so i spent my tween and teen years as the middle (and still am)

however. my brother is disabled. he has always struggled with stuff, dropped out of college, doesnt have a job, barely leaves the house. its not his fault at all and i really feel for him, he got screwed over by the system. but this has meant that as the next oldest child, i took over a lot of the responsibility in the house, such as chores and babysitting my sister, and i ended up doing a lot of the 'oldest sibling milestones' first like being the first to get a job, the first to go to university, the first to move out, etc.

so this means that i kinda take on the role of the oldest sibling a lot of the time, even though im technically not.

and to top it all off, both of my siblings are my half-siblings. they live with me, we grew up together, but they have different dads to me and each other. but we all share a mum. so when i go to my dads house, im an only child.

all this to say. its me. im siblings georg. my life is wild when i think about it lmao