To those with an older sibling....

[Bomberman4000]

My older brother used to terrify me with giant fake spiders and snakes. I hate them. I'm 24 and still get nervous going down the toy aisle at Wal-Mart or something and turning around to a giant spider flying at me. I also hate Halloween now because of him.

Also, we both used to hide beside the bathroom and jump out and scare each other. To this day I'm still jumpy at sudden movements or sudden loud noises.

 

[scorptatious]

I can't really remember my older sister ever "terrorizing" me. But I'm sure she did something to me for kicks at some point.

As for my younger brother. (By two minutes) I found him really annoying when I was little. And he's still kind of annoying. I've accepted him though and he doesn't bother me as much usually.

 

[ArkhamJester]

Speaking from the Older sibling side, I ranged from playfull teasing to outright malicious in my younger days. Telling her she is to be my slave... That the grandparents were coming for my birthday and not hers (our birthdays are close together)and just generally shooing her away. In recent years we managed to bridge the gap and (hopefully) grew to tolerate and even like each other. Hell we are going to an anime convention together in two days. So in conclusion I was an inconcistent fiend to her but (I like to think) I grew out of it and have a decent relationship.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Second oldest of four siblings. Three boys and the youngest a girl. My sister has medical problems and medicin she had to take as a baby caused her to go deaf, so she has mental and social issues. She's much better than she used to be though, kinda a ***** now though. But she's really off limits from anythng physical, and I only combat against her verbally if she starts it.

My older brother who was always a big guy used to chase me and hit me an such. But we still got along rather well. Over the last five years he's developed some bad temper issues so I stay away from him for the most part.

My younger brother me and my older would team up to beat him up, chase him and tease him. We always joked he was adopted cause he was the only on in the family born in a different province and he had a big head so ya. I'm actually the smallest of the 3 brothers now, but I still pick on the younger cause he may be bigger, but i know how to hurt him.

We all pick on each other now at 23,20,16. me and my older brother don't fight much. Still I've had thoughts of killing them at points, but I think everyone has those moments with siblings.
Still as things go, we're better than a lot of other siblings we know of.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

I have an older step-brother and he didn't really terrorize me much, we'd have scraps now and then but nowt much to be honest.

 

[Kargathia]

I'm effectively the older brother.

Oh, and thanks for all the good tips.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

My older brother and I put sibling rivalry to new hights since we fought all the time, and I mean physicaly and verbal fights. All of which I lost to since he's bigger than me and would make my day hell after said lost match.

He would blurt out embarrassing things about me to my friends if he were around them and would make a big deal about them. If he was having a shitty day he would snap at me over the littlest thing and when I'd try to ask him why he's upset he'd tell me to fuck off or would ignore me. I understand that the reason he's like that is because he has really bad Aspergers, but that doesn't excuse him from being a massive dick.

We don't talk all that much anymore.

 

[Vancleef]

All of my siblings were so much older than me, so they pretty much all saw me as the annoying, spoiled, golden child who got away with everything. Teenagers don't want to play a 5 year olds games.

The sibling rivalry only really existed with one of my brothers (4 years older).
He never really abused me, cause he knew he wouldn't get away with it. He simply enjoyed the fact that he was stronger, smarter and better at everything we did, and constantly tried to push the right buttons so I would make a fool of myself.

Can't say I blame him, though. I was a complete prick as a kid.


We all get along fairly well now.


It's sad that I remember so little of my childhood...

 

[Torrasque]

Hmmm...
When I was much younger, I chased my brother around the house with a bat, causing him to run into a corner and getting a nice gash in his head that actually required stitches.
I can't quite remember my brother doing that much to torment me actually. I know he did, but nothing comes to mine.

I have tormented my younger brother much more than my older brother tormented me, lololol

 

[Grimh]

My brother was mostly nice to me growing up. Just the odd, "downstairs is haunted, now go down there and get me a coca cola" thing every now and then.

 

[Saulkar]

Up front punching and kicking.

 

[trollnystan]

Huh, my siblings never did this really. One of my sisters would sometimes pinch me or tease me but once she got older - she is 6-7 years older than me - she stopped and when she was 14 she moved to Ireland. My brother, closest to me in age, would tease and poke but never in a mean way. He slapped me on the thigh once really hard but as I'd just poured chocolate milk in his hair I kind of deserved it. (He dared me though! You CAN'T back down from a dare!)

There are no childhood traumas that I would ascribe to my siblings; they were actually my strength and support, so much so that my oldest sister became like my second mother, especially after our mother died.

Sorry, was that a total downer in regards to this thread? Sorry. I'll just leave now. Sorry.

[sub][sup][sub]Sorry.[/sub][/sup][/sub]

 

[Flip-Shying]

My brother and I have never really experienced the 'sibling rivalry' business. Sure, we would fight and argue, but he never tried to use his advantage of being the older brother. My brother has actually been a helpful person in my life.

 

[Savryc]

I can't say I've ever terrorized my brothers. Maybe it's the age difference, I'm 20, nearly 21 and my oldest brother is 12. There was only one bad incident involving said brother which happened a few months ago, my brothers an all right lad but he's got a mouth on him and I heard him calling Mum a fucking *****, I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and wheeled off the usual threats if I ever heard him say it again. (I'll break your legs, throw you under a bus, threats of beatings in general etc.) I think he was more scared that I was shouting than what I was saying, I'm usually pretty quiet.

Other than that, pretty much smooth sailing on the sibling front.

 

[GodofDisaster]

I've never suffered any of these events, do you know why?

Because I am the oldest sibling and I have two younger brothers and one younger sister.

During my childhood years, when it was just me and my younger by two years brother. We got on well, we liked the same things and he even played video games, something he no longer does. Of course there was moments when I hurt him.

>When he was a baby I push him out of his basket, luckily the blanket and pillow stopped his head from hitting the ground. Of course this was an accident.

>Cutting his ear with a pair of scissors. (Don't ask the story behind this, because I can't remember)

>During a certain Christmas our parents bought us one of those pedal cars, it was suppose to be shared but I was convinced other wise and that it belong to me. My brother thought the same, we fought constanly over the car untill I slam his fingers in the car door.

Now we're are indifferent to each other, complete polar opposites.

My sister, meh we don't talk at all.

Finally my youngest brother, is the one most like me, probably because I'm the only person who actually give him some attention and due to this, he's grown to like games favourite genre being rpgs, loves anime and manga has played through all five Pokemon gens thanks to me and hates modern pop music, did I mention he's just 12 years old. I have high hopes for him becoming an awesome person when he grows up.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

My older sister would beat me up till I was twelve and bigger then her. I was witty though so I embarrassed her in front of her boyfriend's on a regular basis.

 

[The Funslinger]

in hgihschool I was scared of my sister

no seriously

we were polar oposites..she was an out spoken party animal..I was shy and quiet as a mouse (and a tomboy)

she was the embodiement of all my insecurites and fears...the Idea that THAT was what you were supsoed to be like to be happy...I was frightened in her presance, if SHE said somthing or took the piss then it got to me..because I belived it, she had a vindictive streak, I would literally be paranoid if she came into my room because anything..ANYTHING she could cirticise..I was scared of her criticising what I liked..who I was freinds with..what would wear...what I was going to do

actually somthing of a symbolic moment....I always hated my hair style, I always wore it tied up..plain aa..then I got a hair cut with a fringe and I liked to wear it tied up with the fringe out...this was a big deal because I NEVER changed my hair (it was a psychlogical thing) this was me stepping out and doing somthing new.....then one day we were out and my sister was like "here" and pinned it back with a bobby pin (back to square 1 lookig how I did before)..mum could see my look of disapointment, to which my sister said to her "well?! do you want her to look like a freak?!"

BAM..that one statment totally crushed me, dont try anything new...dont do anything...because you look like a freak...it took me a while to get over that one

and then I grew up and realised she was just a dumbass humaning beling like the rest of us (its ok were fine)

while Im over that...thease days I somtimes hate being around my sisters/familiy...I still feel restricted..I couldnt go out..make new frends or have a relationship...or anything out of charachter because it would be subject to their pisstaking...(I know its not serious) but I feel "restricted" in some horrible way

I know how you feel. That said, I can't really summon up any particular stories, but it was always the case that whenever I tried something new, it would be subject to ridicule. Whenever I was sick from school, they'd make me feel horrible about it, and insinuate I was lying. Things like that. They tended to accuse me of selfishness with a lot of things, such as when I was seven and bought two bottles of pepsi with my own money, my sister demanded I give one of them to her. When I'd got my own money together to pay for them, and I was saving the other for later. Then there was the time when they zipped me up in a wheely suitcase and pushed it down the stairs. They weren't great to me as a kid, and I think it affected my confidence in the long run.

I brought a girl home for the first time earlier in this February, and I was petrified right up until they actually met. Fortunately, my sisters are older now, and more mature, but I was worried, and confessed as much to the girl.

We're no longer together now, but my sisters did like her. Currently I haven't really had the courage to tell my parents and sisters I've been dumped. I imagine by their lack of curiosity about her not showing up, or me going to hers anymore that they've pieced that one together.

Just generally, I don't really tend to share emotionally with any of my family. Hell, none of them know about the time I was brutally stabbed. I can't believe I managed to keep that under wraps...

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

My older brother never let me play on our PS2 despite the fact that it was actually given to me as a birthday present. That and he used to beat the shit out of me. A lot.

 

[Rooster893]

My brother would take anything I was passionate about and call me an obsessive freak.

Heck, everyone in my family but my mom does that to me.