The 18th March Project – Post 13

Being a younger sibling means

• Learning when you should fight back – it’s all about picking your battles
• Retaliating every time your elder sibling tries to tell you what to do
• Wearing hand-me-downs
• Being compared to your older sibling
• Being known as so-and-so’s little sister
• Having people forget your name and use your sibling’s name instead
• Feeling underappreciated
• Being born knowing how to share- we never had a time when anything was all ours and ours alone
• Being the smaller one in a physical fight (sadly, some of us never outgrow that)
• Being expected to respect the elder sibling, even by people who are not part of your inner circle
• Trying, and failing, to explain why it’s such a pain in the ass to be the younger one