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At this point in our lives I don't think we are all that terribly different. We are both stable family-types who swear too much and use too much sarcasm. We have different interests and political views but I feel like our personalities are similar. Ten years ago the answer would've been different though. My brother had much more of a rebellious streak/need to fit in (with friends) than I did so his teens and 20s were full of bad choices and he sort of had a lost decade (whereas I was a family-pleaser who went the traditional route). But he grew up eventually, as most people usually do

We could not be more opposite!

@Tanjowen: I was talking about this the other day with my mom, because my kids are so different from each other. I said it blows my mind!

Then my mom pointed out how different my siblings and I am. We are all sarcastic & get along with each other, and are super super close. My brother is the peace keeper, my sister is the baby of the family and I'm the bossy one. We have wildly different professions and it's nuts how we ended up all over the spectrum!

We are similar in some ways but very different in others. He is pessimistic and introverted. I am an extrovert and optimistic. But we are both intellectuals who can be kind of intense for some people and we share similar political and philosophical views. We are both athiest (NOT raised that way) and very family focused.

We are SO different. We couldn't be more different! One is a jetsetter married to someone high in military and lives abroad. Sometimes she is in tune with other people's feelings, other times she is jealous and purposely makes people look bad or cry! Another is a business woman in Manhattan. She is cold and sensitive, bit clueless to other's emotions, very jealous. They are both dominating, love to be center stage, no children. I live modestly in a medium sized city in the midwest and am growing a family. I love outdoors, animals, am kind of a free spirit and an artist. I am very in tune with other's emotions and love viewing things from every perspective. The fighting is intense!

My siblings are all pretty much the same. In the odd one out.

I'm super Type A, always organized and like planning ahead. My brother is much more go with the flow. But other than that, we are pretty similar. We both work in finance, we have very similar sense of humor, we got married within 5 months of each other, had our daughters almost exactly 1 year apart and had our sons 48 hours apart, so our lives have followed extremely similar paths. We live a plane ride away from each other so we don't see each other as much as we'd like, but we text/email all the time and FaceTime regularly with the kiddos. My brother's inability to plan anything in advance used to drive me crazy but now I just go directly his wife (who is awesome, we have a great relationship, just as my bro has a great relationship with my husband) to handle that kind of stuff and avoid headaches for all involved.

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I am one of five and we are all very different, but all get along very well! I think it's really cool seeing how we turned out with such different personalities.

My older brother is very quiet, methodical, and cautious. He likes things orderly, simple, and predictable. I don't think he wouldn't mind if he did the same thing every day for the rest of his life!

I am very independent, free-thinking, creative, and outgoing. I like spontaneity, change, big social settings, being funny and loud. (I am also the butt of most of the family jokes because they are all CRAZY competitive and most of them are amazing athletes, and I don't care at all about competition, I lose pretty much every game, and suck at throwing a football.)

My younger sister is more type A and likes everything to be planned out. She is a good leader and kind of bossy (and sometimes acts like she thinks she needs to control my life because I can't, lol).

My younger brother is SUPER intellectual, and likes people to know it, lol. He values logic above emotions and relationship. He is pretty introverted (but sarcastic), passionate about philosophy and politics.

My youngest sister, the baby of the family, is probably the most like me. We are both outgoing (we were both cheerleaders in HS) people people and place a high value on peace and harmony. So we kind of bond over the fact that we can have hurt feelings from other people in the family but never dare tell them or confront them, lol.

One thing that makes us all feel close is although we are different personality-wise, we are all really expressive about out feelings for each other. So, we say "I love you," a lot, and we are kind of touchy feely (lots of hugs, cheek kisses, back rubs, arms around each other, cuddles, etc.).

My sister and I are suppppper different!

We are polar opposites.

Complete opposites.