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writes:Hello,Does anyone else feel like the black sheep in their family? If so how do you deal with it?My family has always been close, we were all raised well and are good people. But as I have got older I am starting to feel more and more like the odd one out or just left out. My mum and dad adore my younger brother, he's very smart and really will go places, and then there's my younger sister who is very funny and just like them. They are very close, im close to my parents and siblings too but as we've got older im now more teased for being different (in a nice way but its there)and left out of gatherings a bit. They do all live closer but im only 20 mins away. My mum once said i cut the apron strings very early and im not sure if this is why things are strained but im still their daughter. How do i make things better between us, i hate that im starting to feel jealous. Thanks
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reader, Honeypie  + ♥, writes (27 July 2015):
 Who hosts those "gatherings" that you are not invited to? If it's your parents (mostly) I'd bring it up that you feel a bit left out. Same if it's either of your siblings.
They might feel you are more of a independent spirit that the other two or that you early on started doing your own thing.
Do you ever invite them all over? Do you go out of your way to make social things happen?
I think you might be reading more into things then are actually meant, so why not talk to your mom/dad at some point?
I doubt they see you as a "black sheep" as that is usually the "title" for the kid that ends up in trouble constantly, do "dumb" stuff etc.
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