How Accurate is the Author's Description of my Birth Order

     After reading "How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment" from Lucille K. Forer, I feel that finally someone else understands me. It explains mostly accurately how my birth order, in my case the older child, affects my lifestyle and the way I relate to the people. It also helped me to understand better why I try to act responsibly most of the time.

     In agreement with the text, I definitely have a parental position in relation to my siblings. As a result, if my parents are not there I have to correct my brother and sister when they are doing bad things. This situation often put me under pressure to do things in the right way, since I must be the role model for my siblings. Another point mentioned in the reading, which I agree with, is that my sister, the middle one, sometimes ask me for help. There is only one topic which I think doesn't match with my own family story: the capabilities. In my opinion, the oldest child doesn't necessarily have to be the most capable than the later children. For my personal experience I can tell that my sister, for example, is more capable than me in many ways. The reason for this is maybe because she is less anxious about being correct, so her self-confidence make her do things in which I'm maybe not as good as her. However, in general, this reading has a very accurate picture of my family hierarchy situation in most of the aspects mentioned.