Brian
Rios
8/26/14
3rd
Period
My
Birth Order Traits
In the research conducted about birth
orders, they perfectly described me as which child I was right down to the
word, and that was the middle child. The research said that middle children had
traits of those that I wrote down when asked to describe ourselves and what we
felt were our traits. For example, one trait mentioned that matched what I
wrote down was misunderstood. I often feel as if I am misunderstood by my
parents all the time and get in trouble when I try to help or do something
right. So in other words; being misunderstood is a definite trait of a middle
child and the research accurately describes me.
One out of the many traits the birth
order research speculated that was common in middle children was prone to
embarrassment. This particular trait is in fact true and I strongly agree with
it. As an example, when I was asked to go up to the front of the class to
present a six word story on vine that I had not even created in this English
class, needless to say I was nervous and a bit embarrassed. Another time in
Health class we had to tell the whole class about ourselves from what our
favorite hobbies are, and even to how many siblings we had, but we had to
present it to whole class. When I present something I feel very uncomfortable
and would rather not stand up at all and just be shy about it. This goes into
consideration for any form of public speaking, so whether it’s in front of a
classroom or the whole school, this trait of is middle child perfectly
describes me.
Another trait that was found in middle
children was being secretive and I myself shamefully agree with this one
because it is also true about the way I act. For example I don’t like to share
everything with my family so I only keep the things that are convenient to me a
secret and one time my dad gave me money, but told me to share it with my
younger sister by splitting it in half. When my dad told me this I said I would
but secretly I didn’t give her any money at all and she didn’t even know about
it. There was also another time when I asked my mom for money, and I received five
dollars but I also asked my dad for money and he didn’t know I had already
asked my mom for money so I was being a little sneaky that time too. I agree
with the trait of middle children being secretive because every now and then I’m
a little sneaky when it comes to money and other things.
One of the traits that I strongly
disagree with is the trait where they found middle children often more willing
to “give in”. This is not the way I look at life at all; just waiting for the
chance to “give in and stop trying” I try my hardest until I know it’s not
possible to something at all. As an example, imagine someone playing a video
game that is so hard it makes people “rage” and this means they’re screaming
and cursing because it’s so hard. Those types of games I keep trying and keep
trying to pass it, and this might sound like a cliché but I never stop trying whether
it’s a game that’s very difficult or a real life situation when under stress or
pressure. An example that’s more recent is when this school year started I had
forgotten completely about Algebra and was taking the course Algebra II, so you
can imagine I had a rough time catching up but I never gave up and I kept
trying to remember my old skills of Algebra while trying to learn new ones at
the same time. I strongly disagree with the trait found in middle children that
they are often willing to “give in” because I am definitely not like the trait
described.
So in conclusion,
except for a few traits that I found to disagree with the rest of the traits
were correct and I found I could connect to them in many ways. My thoughts on
this research that I had never heard of traits for a birth order and always
thought children always acted the way they do because of the way they were
raised by their parents and not their birth order, so before this I had not
taken consideration the order they were born at all. My views have changed
because I can now tell who’s the first born because it’s very obvious, so all
the high achievers are mostly first born children or just really take up after their
older sibling. I also related to the traits found in middle children and found
that these were right, all but were wrong. I found the birth order traits to be
interesting and now clears up many things about my siblings and myself.
