20 Things You’ll Relate To If You’re A Single Child

Psychologists say that the order in which you are born greatly impacts your personality. The older sibling usually turns out to be a responsible adult, while the youngest one is forever tarnished by the reputation of being the wild one. The middle one, as the birth order suggests, allegedly faces a lot of identity crisis. The only child, however, is a whole different breed! If you are an only child, you will definitely relate to basically being entitled to the whole of your parents love, which is something, really. That and these 20 things:

1. You are the centre of everyone’s attention…

2. … Or, you at least expect to be

3. You are super pampered by your parents

4. You’re not used to sharing things

5. You get jealous of your friends who have siblings

6. Your friends are like your siblings

7. People assume that you are a spoilt brat

8. But, you don’t care much for other people’s opinion because you have learned to love your own company

9. You need more space than the average Joe

10. But, you also enjoy and value company than most others

11. You have, at some point in your life, had an imaginary friend you were closer to than anybody you knew IRL

12. You most likely have some amount of social anxiety

13. You don’t understand people who can’t enjoy being by themselves

14. Or, those who aren’t close to their parents

15. You’ve been a third wheel in so many situations with your mother and father, it doesn’t even feel awkward any more

16. But, you’re actually quite comfortable being a third wheel

17. You are also tired of answering the question, “Do you wish you had siblings?”

18. You are sick and tired of hearing all the stereotypes people have of only children

19. You may have hated having to do everything by yourself, but chances are, you’ve grown to love it

20. At the end of it all, being an only child isn’t so bad because