[KappaKittyCat]

I'm a nice, even blend of only and firstborn. I have one younger brother, but he didn't arrive on the scene until I was almost eight. He had health problems as an infant and needed lots of love and attention. By this point I was rather self-sufficient, my parents having raised me to do things for myself, so I just kind of faded into the background.

But there's truth to a lot of this.

The way AlAnon explains it (my uncle told me this after he went through during his ex-wife's treatment and their subsequent divorce) is that (in multiple families) the firstborn is the Hero, the secondborn is the Scapegoat, the thirdborn is the Prodigal Son, and the fourthborn is the Clown. It completely fits with that family, too.

Something to think about.