- Another frequent Only Child characteristic: Paranoia.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:A lot of things I value about myself I can attribute to having been an only child, but I wouldn't wish it on any kid of mine. And the older I get--and the older my parents get--the scarier it becomes.

I definitely wouldn't have had the stones to do most of the stuff I do now, for work and for play, if I had another kid in the house with me. I had to pretty much DIM from age 12 on, for better or for worse.

As an adult, I wonder what it might be like to have a sibling my age to bounce ideas off of - which is a role my mother plays right now.

I find that highly bizarre.

i'm an only child. artsy, taciturn, bookish, and quite social occasionally. autocratic and highly detail-oriented too. also, stay out of my room!

MrFood wrote:Two of the most perverted, selfish, self-centered, fucked-up attention whores I've ever know have been only children who's parents lavished them with material goods and 'mummy's special soldier' type mollycoddling.

Just sayin'.

But enough about your parents!

hench wrote:i'm an only child. artsy, taciturn, bookish, and quite social occasionally. autocratic and highly detail-oriented too. also, stay out of my room!

Same here, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

hench wrote:i'm an only child. artsy, taciturn, bookish, and quite social occasionally. autocratic and highly detail-oriented too. also, stay out of my room!

Same here, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I was an only child until I was five and haven't gotten over these traits.

Not Crap

Maybe I had the advantage of living in a neighborhood with a lot of kids my age. But I've rarely seen - amongst people I know - relationships between siblings that I envy, or would aspire to.

Would've been cool to have a little bro/sis. But it's made me what I am - whatever that is -

CRAP.

It's always been odd to be around someone with tons of brothers and sisters, thinking to yourself "how can they cope?" - but thinking about it, I would've preferred to have some myself. Blame my mum for being old and dried up.

ERawk wrote:the exclusive domain of us

I'd consider seeing this band.

i think being an only gets a bad rap. i was perfectly social enough goddamnit! and i gots my me time