I'm the youngest of 3. I am also the youngest cousin, all of them being at least 7 years older than me as are my brothers. Are you getting the picture that I was, for want of a better word, an Accident? Yeah, you're right.
I don't fit the stereotype, having always been noted in the family as "independent" - "She's far too independent, that one," was the verdict when I was a child. I've never felt small (except in lack of height which, unfortunately, is true though the rest of my family is tall) and certainly never felt weak. I also tended to side with my 2nd brother against the eldest, rather than the other way, though not too seriously as we all tended to side with each other - "Kick one and you've kicked the lot", as our dad used to say -
not that he ever did kick us, of course. I certainly didn't get "all my own way" as a child and I never felt like, or was treated as, the Baby.
I also have 3 children (there's a 10 year gap between numbers 2 and 3 - my mother wasn't the only one who could have an accident). They don't seem to fit the bill either.
Are we odd or is it all just a load of - you-know-what?
