Many children struggle with being timid or becoming too isolated. You should always validate the child’s feelings because, “ A middle child will feel less alone if he knows you accept his emotions and he can talk about them.” Growing up with middle child syndrome can be difficult for a child. Seriously though you realize you are the glue that holds up the family. More than anything you realize you actually love being alone and you just hate getting ignored. It’s not all that bad.īeing an adult with middle child syndrome, you come to the sense that you actually don’t mind being the middle child and as you grow into an adult, you realize you truly enjoy your peace. Although sometimes getting forgotten does get extremely annoying. My older sister without a doubt will ask me “you were there?!” and we’ll just laugh about it. I’ll let them tell their story and maybe even nod here and there.Īs soon as they finish telling me the story I hit them with my favorite line “I know I was there, do you need me to make a scene next time so you can remember me?” followed by my blank stare. They’ll describe the whole event to me as if I wasn’t there at all. We’ll maybe even take pictures of the event, and then when weeks or even months pass by and my family will reminisce about said event. Like geez sorry for being able to express my emotions.įrom personal experience, there have been numerous occasions where I go out with all my family and we’ll have an amazing time. Since we already feel like no one is paying attention we rather keep to ourselves and be alone.Ĭompared with all the other siblings “their personality may be dulled down by their siblings, making them quiet and even-tempered.”
Your family might even talk over you from time to time which makes your blood boil until they let you speak of course, then they wonder why we’re assholes. I have also noticed that the middle child always gets labeled as an “asshole.” The baby gets all the attention since they’re the new baby of the house and the middle child, well we’re kind of there just minding our business.īeing the middle child, yes you are constantly getting forgotten and then getting told you’re being dramatic for getting upset.
The firstborn gets all the attention since they were the firstborn right? Even if your family says you’re not, I’m sorry but we just are naturally and that’s okay. I don’t know what that’s about and we are also the most forgotten child. I’m sure many of you who are middle children have heard, “You’re so lazy, you never want to help out around the house” after you literally just finished cleaning.įor some reason when we clean, it’s not good enough? Middle child syndrome is described as “…the belief that middle children are excluded, ignored, or even outright neglected because of their birth order.”īeing the middle child is like unwillingly signing up to be an under-appreciated maid. Growing up as a middle child is a very strange experience and it’s almost hard to explain to someone who isn’t a middle child. Being the middle child, I have two older and two younger sisters and as much as I love them all, they annoy me.
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