This goes out to all my fellow only children out there. These moments, questions, and feelings are all too real for you. But don’t worry, next time you feel like you’re the only sane person in the nuthouse with your parents remember there are others like you out there. We all understand the pain.
1. The unconditional love that sometimes feels like a smothering blanket.
Because you are the only child in the house your parents have only you to shower with love and affection. Though it is nice to be so loved sometimes it feels like you literally cannot breathe because of the amount of love being physically thrust upon you.
2. The fishbowl you seem to live in.
Being a child with no one else to deflect off of is tough. It is literally living under a microscope. Get a bad grade, there is not idiot brother who got a worse grade. Broke that expensive vase, hopefully your mom can see your imaginary friend who did it because there is no one else to blame. Miss curfew by two minutes, grounded for two weeks because there was no older sister who always sneaks out.
3. Christmas a.k.a. you day of never ending gifts!
Your parents love to shower you in seemingly never-ending piles of prezzies. (#notabrat #maybealittle)
4. Except the one present they will never get you, a little brother.
5. It's ok though, you've learned to cope well with the loneliness.
6. Until you reach that sad moment when your imaginary friends become all too real.
7. And you always respond to your parents' idea of a trip with "Can I bring a friend?"
And you realize that friend is your true savior from above.
8. Then the inherent case of OCS really sets in.
OCS stands for Only Child Syndrome. Symptoms associated with OCS: inability to share and a sometimes high maintenance persona.
9. And you then have to accept that your sorority big is your actual big sister.
ILY Katie!
10. But then the dreaded Christmas card season rolls around again.
The terrible moment when your parents decide that a picture of you alone will make a tremendous Christmas card. MOM NO! Have you seen the awkwardness that is me alone in this photograph?
11. But ultimately you realize you are in the best company.
Scott Disick: Our true hero.
Even though sometimes being an only child can seem like you are stuck in the deepest, darkest crevice of hell, in the end you know you love it.
