Question Time

[icepixie]

I'm bored, so have an old meme, reborn like a phoenix via rivendellrose:

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Fannish, RL, whatever, it's all good.

Comments

[icepixie]

I can think of only a couple of people who've thought I was unusual for being an only child. Very occasionally I would get pity, but I haven't for years and years now. Huh. Maybe it's a cultural difference?

I occasionally wished for a sibling when I was little and wanted to play a board game or something like that, and when I was a teenager and wanted rather less parental attention (not that I would've done anything bad, but you know how when you're a teen and want PRIVACY AND YOUR OWN LIFE OMG), but in general I've tended to see being an only child and having siblings as kind of equally desirable/undesirable. (I would've had someone to play games with, but I also would've had to share a bedroom, blech.) Both have benefits and drawbacks, and I kind of figure that if you've lived your entire life with one, it would be difficult to switch to the other. I wouldn't change it now, certainly.

One thing I am conscious of, in particular because I don't have any interest in romantic relationships, is that everything is going to be on me and me alone as my parents age and, eventually, pass away. That is a bit depressing, but it's also just kind of a fact of life, and I accept it as such.

[finnstardust.livejournal.com]

Maybe it is a cultural thing, I don't know. It does seem to be kind of rare, I can only think of maybe one friend who is also an only child. It's not so much pity that I'm getting, it's more like they wonder why. I sometimes feel like telling them, well, I don't know, go ask my mum why she didn't have any more children. My father was a crazy alcoholic, so maybe that's why.

I agree with you on the fact that being only children, we will be responsible for a lot in the future - I try not to think about it but sometimes it does come up to worry me.