Middle Child Syndrome/Joining the Military
Ok I have two questions to ask, but they go together so I just wanted to make one thread.
I am wondering if middle child syndrome is real? I am asking this because of three children, I am the middle one. My older sister is 20, and I have a younger brother. Well for some reason everything I do mostly academic wise is always compared to my sister. Im going to be taking almost all honors and ap classes next year and my mom still isn't happy with it. She constantly says "Your sister took the hardest classes you can, why can't you!". And I tell her I am just not smart enough, as although I get all A's, I get through the holes in the school system. Such as in english class, I never got tested on the things I need help on, like using commas, spelling, etc... I use to be a total failure, I use to get all F's and got in trouble a lot. I only changed to make my mom happy and yet she isn't. My brother gets D's and C's and my mom doesn't care. She goes and buy's him a xbox 360, a new cellphone, new TV, etc..
My mom pays a lot of attention to my younger brother and older sister. My mom is always like "You must be just like your sister when you grow up, don't drink, don't go to parties. I try to tell her I am not my sister... What can I do to stop the stress from her always complaining? It is really messing up my life and is making my life a lot worse. Anyway her is my other question, I really want to join the military but that only makes my mom more mad. She thinks I'm just going to run in and get shot. My mom says the military is for failures, which I take offensively. I really want to make a difference and I don't really care if I was killed in the act. I figure that since we all die eventually, mine as well die doing something excitting. Is there anything wrong with the military?
Let me know if you know anything on how to solve both of these problems, thanks!
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