4 - Sibling Caregiver Accounts

Summary

My brother was different right from childhood. A lot of firsts in the family were witnessed in him. The age gap between him and his immediate younger sibling was the shortest (less than two years). He stood and walked later than his five siblings and he was the only one to have a febrile seizure. However, my brother was also more sociable than anyone else in our family; the only one interested in the entertainment industry. As a child, sometimes he would manifest some baffling behaviours that our straitlaced family found difficult to understand. This led to punishments in an effort to curb some of these behaviours. I think because he was punished more often than the well-behaved siblings, perhaps he had a feeling of not being loved as much as they were.