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I grew up in a large Family, I got all of the privileges that you mentioned but there is a bad for every good and sometimes found myself envious of the only child.
I always wondered what being an only child is like. I also wonder what being the oldest child is like too.
Like said all eyes on you never leaving the spot light so scared to fuck up
I really thought how would it feel to be the only child. Nice take
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as a only child completely agree
That's a joyful take, nice work.
As the mom of an only, this is hilarious!
I don't see how? and I'm a only child
Because it's just funny... It's written in very dry humor. Ironically, he's a very self-sufficient introvert and all the stuff about siblings is why he doesn't want any.
dude, i have lived my whole life by myself no friends no siblings just mom from the age of 8 till now I lived in a completely white room white wall white floor no pictures nothing but my bed and few box's I kept stuff in. even when I went to public schools I kept to my self during lunch I wouldn't sit down I packed my lunch light specifically so I could eat it while moving so I just stood out side my next class. id get home do my home work make dinner do the laundry do the dishes and clean house. as soon as i was of the right age to be lft home alone i was and not like cuple hours till mom got off she worked nights so I sat at home alone for 12 hours with no one to talk to. my pets became my best friends and i became very much a loner i didn't like people I didn't understand them. i saw my dad maybe 3 or 4 times a year for a couple of months. now I live in a house of 9 people and i do the cooking the cleaning help with home work i get pulled in every derection till im drove mad
i have to clean up after people 30 years of age because of thair to lazy to. I'm still pissed at my aunt boyfriend he dumped cranberries juice in my cherry Coca-Cola he doesn't know it yet but ill only take people screwing with me for so long he's past that point so my passive nature is going out the windo im going to go grabe a snake and put it in his underwear drawer
I'm sorry your life is so hard, I didn't realize that's what you were getting at. I thought you were trying to be funny. I guess I should make my son do some more chores. All he does is can usually mow the lawn and do the dishes and dust once in awhile. And take out the trash once a week, and walk the dog. Nothing too involved. He does do his own laundry, finally.
I hit submit before I meant to. Anyway it's just the two of us and he spends most of his time on the computer. We live in a small town so he can walk to visit his friends and he also walks to see his dad after school couple days a week. It's actually pretty sweet for him. I would like to move but I'm staying in this town for now until he graduates from high school.
Every time the subject of siblings comes up, he acts like that would be the worst thing in the world. He's actually really loving being an only.
He gets my undivided attention when he's with me and his dad's undivided attention when he's with him. He gets pretty much anything he wants because there's no one else to buy for in terms of Christmas and birthdays and stuff.
He always gets the middle cinnamon roll when I make those Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and there's one in the center that's really soft. I say, "What if you had a sibling and you had to compete for the middle one?" He just shrugs and grins.
Lol that's kinda funny. I'm vary passive when it comes to my dad or strangers my dad asks what I want for dinner even if I have really bad craving something I'll act as though it makes no difference like I have no opion on it if I go to someone's house I'll eat whatever I'm given even I I don't like it and the thought makes me sick which is a lot I'm varry picky eater I can cook better than a lot of people and love to cook but I'm picky I'm starting to grow out of it. I can really only tell my mom when I want something. but it's hard for me to even do that I still walk around dressed like a boy because any time I go shopping I choke under the pressure of what mom or dad will think like I'll make a wrong choice when x miss roles round. And they ask what I want I know exactly what I want but I won't say it ill say I don't know every now and then I can tell mom one or 2 things I want but not vary often. I spend most my time online sence I never really had friends. I also go to online
Online school so I have never been to a school dance in my life and this is my last year of high school so I don't get a prom either I thought I go to a water park or something instead. How old is your kid anyway? O I love cinabons I make them from scratch all the time
OMG okay that's horrible going to online school and being an only. Are your parents really religious or something? My son has lots of friends at school. He's 15. He got accepted to this special pre-engineering program at the vocational technical school, and his senior year is mostly classes at the community college. Last year he did green architecture and geometry and algebra and I forget what else.
No actually my mom and dad were both drug addicts and alcoholics till I was 13.
Well that explains a lot
I'm not sure if I should be offended by that explains what
It explains why you've apparently been neglected and kept at home, instead of nurtured and given more opportunities to grow socially. Nothing against you at all. I just know when people are wrapped up in their own problems it's hard for them to be the kind of parents that their kids need all the time. It sounds like you feel like the adult in the family, which is also true of children in addictive circumstances. Did you say your mom is 30? She must have been really young when she had you. Or is that your aunt?
Have you ever been to Al-Anon? My dad was an alcoholic and my sister found it really helpful to go to some meetings.
Mom is in her 40s my aunt's in her 30s my dad quit drugs and so did mom when I was 9 but still drank a bottle every day with different drunk personalities dad would get stupid trying to teach me to load a gun or something or would pass out on the floor with a lit cigarette mom drank till he became mean not mean as put her hands on me but mean as yelling screaming at me for no reason I could see I wouldn't move unless she said for me to do something and wouldn't say a word just nod after she passed out I out I'd ball up in my closet and cry. My dad quit when I was 13 but mom still drinks like a fish she hasn't been yelling at me though for a long time other than here thair but now it dosent matter who dose it if somone corrects me criticizes me or yells at me I'll control my self till I'm alone then have slight break down and start crying
As someone who has been abused... I know that terror and helplessness. Hating them and hating yourself for not being able to do e everything perfect so they won't keep acting that way. I was tempted to hurt or kill myself many, many times. Over decades. I'm on meds now and have taken control of my life but I was in a very dark place for a very long time.
As a mom and a woman and once upon a time a teenaged girl, I am begging you with all the love and caring I have to find help. I know you don't go to school so you can't talk to a school counselor, but please find someone you can talk to who you trust. If nothing else, tell the doctor or nurse next time you go for a checkup or are sick.
You are being severely emotionally abused. If you don't take care of yourself, no one will, obviously. And these problems will just get worse and cripple you throughout your life. I know it seems completely terrifying and you feel absolutely helpless, but there ARE ways to get help. Don't be afraid.
I'm not afraid I can leave any time I wished my dad offered many times for me to live with him so did my grandma but I refused thair offers. I got one more year of high school. She hasn't been as bad she still drinks before bed but she hast been yelling at me. Despite yelling at me she was a good mother she kept me clothed and made sure I had everything for school always kept the house full of food made sure thair was somone to watch me and had people check in on me
I understand. My dad and my ex-husband were also good providers and they both loved me, and there were good times with them. That doesn't mean that the damage wasn't impactful.
My point is that it's obvious from the way that you describing things, you're deeply unhappy and hiding your true self. You're still suffering effects from what happened when you were younger. What you're describing is not the life of a typical only child. Even if your mom doesn't yell at you now, you're still suffering the effects.
Think of it like PTSD. You're a soldier. You've been through a battle that was the war of your childhood. It's not disloyal to your mom to find someone to help you talk through that. She's also still an alcoholic. An organization like Al-Anon, which is for families of alcoholics, can help you with your own feelings but can also help you help *her* with her alcoholism.
She won't admit she needs help she denies she's a drunk I have only spoke agents her a few times in my life. and I haven't considered killing myself sence 8th grade but that was only Becuss that was particularly a hard time the dog I loved more than anything had just died a horrible death I hadent gone out side in 4 weeks mom was really bad that week screaming at everything I did even said she didn't love me at a point of anger
Of course she denies it. But they'll still give you ideas of things that you can do so that you're not enabling her. Crazy about, when my sister went alanon, they gave her ideas of how to approach my dad about things and how to talk to him.
Not sure how "crazy about" got in there
I didn't even talk to people on the cell or pc at the time
My dad quite because he asked what I wanted for my birthday and I mumbled under my breath braking a cran saying for one of my parents to be sober he quite a few weeks before my 13 th birthday and been sober ever sence
I know people think o it's just a pet it's not that bad but I loved Lucy more than anything in this world guy could brake my heart everyday day of the week it I'd just shrug it off like nothing happend you can't brake something that's shattered I can't feel that amount of emotional attachment to anything again I cried less when my grandma died I still cry over that dog
I do understand. I do believe you. My dad and my grandmother died within a month of each other in 2015. I said maybe three tears for my grandmother and none for my dad because he was such a jerk. But also because I was so dead emotionally. I just didn't have anything left to give anybody, not even tears. I do still really miss my grandmother though. But she was really really old. She was 130. So she pretty much lost all her faculties and I was just really glad that she wasn't suffering anymore. I think the worst thing is to be trapped in a body when you're really really old. But that's totally off the subject. Sorry.
OMG voice texting is insane. She was 103, not 130
But also, pets are unconditionally loving. They don't yell. They don't ask anything from us except that we love them in return. Oh s*** now I'm crying.
I had to put my dog to sleep a few years ago.
Anyway, just hang in there. I don't know what to say other than don't be afraid to be honest. I think the stuff that you've said here you need to say to someone in person. I hope you find that right person.
I'm driving and voice texting which is a very irresponsible thing to do and as an adult I'm going to tell you don't do this. But that's why they're so many comments here.
That is really bad you shouldn't do that. it actually wasn't my mom and dad who fucked up my mentality it was messed up before they got the chance to. My cousin Aaron is what messed up my mind
I think it can get lonely though
Um didn't I pretty much say that throughout the whole thing
I guess there are pros and cons to everything
An older child is usually fat.
Huh?
Not really. My big sis is slim.
That's not true anyone I ever met was normal
Lol the fab spoiled life
also the mos lonely one
talking about being lonely im only child have no friends and live in a house of 3 obnoxious teen boys
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks
Good for you
Huh?
Only child here!
Same
Interesting take...
Thank you
Interesting
nice pictures