So, I come from, I guess, a relatively big family.

There are six kids, six of us kids, and I'm the fourth of six.

So I'm like in the middle, but so, two girls, and then two boys, and then a girl and a boy.

So these two are me and my older brother.

So I'm the middle of the middle, right?

That makes sense.

He and I are the middle, but he's the oldest boy, so I get to be the middle.

And I care about this why.

Well, because it's my life, that's why.

I care about this because I recently came apart, well, not recently.

When I was growing up, I came upon like theories about birth order.

I've never done any of those reading about like your personalities determined by where

you fit in your family.

So there's this guy named Alfred Adler.

He was a psychotherapist back in the 19th, 20th centuries.

He was a contemporary of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.

And he came up with this theory that birth order determines your personality.

And so his theory was, the oldest sibling in an oldest child and a family was often the

most neurotic.

And if you're the younger one, you'd say, yep, yep, that's right.

No, he said, his theory was, they're the most neurotic because they spend a portion of

their early life on earth being the center of the family.

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