I sometimes feel, as an only child, that I miss out on what it's like to bully my younger siblings. Can you relate to this?
Nah I'm a younger sibling myself. Being an only child must be weird, since I don't know what its like to not have siblings.
There are birth order dynamics to childhood development that I sort of just don't qualify for either.
I get what you're saying. What's weird to think about is that you can be born an only child but they can adopt and therefore you aren't anymore.
True. I wonder if the effect is totally the same though when your parents adopt vs. if they have a kid naturally.
It's probably slightly different, since birthing a biological child is probably a lot different to adopting one.
For parents who can't conceive, I imagine that at least the emotions are extremely similar.
That's true. On a different note, only children were relatively uncommon throughout history.