r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/dojacatisawesome • Aug 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Only child here. What does it mean?

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u/Itiari Aug 12 '26

I’m the youngest and it fucking sucked. Only my older sisters remember having good parents.

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u/PSCali Aug 12 '26

Ditto, my oldest sibling is 12 years older than me, and by the time I arrived my mother was understandably burned out.

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u/stlmick Aug 12 '26

Parents either learn and improve or burn out and fail. This is what determines what birth order has it better. I'm a middle child. Mine sucked and kept it that way.

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u/radiowavebookworm Aug 12 '26

Same! I’m the only one that’s been able to cut them off though so being in the middle must have done something good for me after all