I often hear of these sorts of expectations being placed on the eldest child, which I find rather unreasonable since kids need time and space to be kids.
Is your brother maybe referring to emotional neglect? I'm not sure "neglect" would be quite the proper word, but as someone whose parents were worrying/discussing me a lot I thought there was a kind of emotional dysfunction...I felt treated like a toy or specimen a lot. Of course I might be way off base here. In any case, I can see where that was/probably still is a frustrating situation.
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Date: 2012-02-17 09:20 pm (UTC)Is your brother maybe referring to emotional neglect? I'm not sure "neglect" would be quite the proper word, but as someone whose parents were worrying/discussing me a lot I thought there was a kind of emotional dysfunction...I felt treated like a toy or specimen a lot. Of course I might be way off base here. In any case, I can see where that was/probably still is a frustrating situation.