Are you anything like your family?

[Hærfest Leah]

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ugh this was supposed to be a poll.


Anyways, are you anything at all like your family, including parents, siblings, grandparents. How and if not why? What about them are you trying or trying not to inlude in your personality, home, new family etc.? Are there differences between you and them that cause conflicts?


Edited to add my answer: I very rarely see something in myself that reminds me of anyone in my family. But 99.5% I am nothing like my family. My mother has that do what everyone else wants just to make them happy although you don't want to mind frame and so we clash on that I refuse to be that way. And she is good at guilt trips which I'm still trying to learn not to fall for.

My dad and I get along occasionally althought he's the one I hate between the 2 of them for ruining my childhood and because he's ignorant, sexist, racist and a bully. (I inherited my temper from him) He and I clash because I'll go head to head with him on all of those topics and I always stood up to him when I was growing up when he'ld start family fights.

As for my sister we get along better when we're not in the same room together. She calls me wierd because I'm not afraid to do things that aren't mainstream (being Wiccan included) and that I have a bigger pair of balls than her.

And my grandparents are great except I bet (although not big christains) they'd disown me if they knew I wasn't anymore. Their the only ones in my entire family (sister, parents and extended family) that have figured out how to stay married over 50 yrs.

Although my family is from Long Island they have been living in TN for way too many years. They are content with the country and I joined the military right out of high school in order to get away from them and TN. They stress me out just being in the same room with them fo to long, hence why I rarely visit. Ok I'm done. :)

[Earthy]

Goodness, no!!!
Sometimes i think i'm adopted just because i am nothing like them.
Okay,i look like them but that's where it ends..our thinking is miles apart.

[Karma Chameleon]

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ugh this was supposed to be a poll.


Anyways, are you anything at all like your family, including parents, siblings, grandparents.How and if not why? What about them are you trying or trying not to inlude in your personality, home, new family etc.?


Nope. I am very different. I get disgusted when people judge folks by their family without taking the time to get to know the indivivual person; Each person is unquie.

[Kyra Kismet]

Im like my dad....we have a sick sense of humour....my real mom ise a troll though!

[IvyWitch]

I get told constantly that I'm the spitting image of my mother. It's very very true. Excluding my curly hair my mother and I look very alike. We have the same laugh (so does my aunt, the three of us together is scary), the same voice and the same sense of humor. Though I would like to think my jokes are a bit better....

I need one of those buttons that says "Help! I'm turning into my mother!"

Actually, what's really funny about my immediate family is if you put a picture of my father and my brother at the same age, the only way to tell the difference between the two is one is in black and white.

[Tinara]

I am nothing like my mother, thank goodness....*shudders*.....she had a major life crisis when I was in high school and is a totally different woman now. I have three younger brothers and we are extremely close and alot alike. I have the same basic beliefs and "personalty" as my grandparents on both sides.....there isnt any doubt that I am related to them by the way I look at things and the world.

Conflicts? Oh yeah....my mother is very self-centered and selfish now, she refuses to call my son by his name "that baby"....so yeah there are conflicts.

Not want to bring in: Hmmm her craziness? LOL
Bring in: My grandparents have been married forever, I would like to emmulate that and they are very secure in themselves and what they believe in...that is something I have worked very hard to achieve.

Great questions!!

[Amethyst Rose]

I have an amazing family, and I'm proud to say that I'm a lot like them. Of course we have different religious and political views, but that means nothing, really. It's how we show our love for each other that draws us together.

[HeavensHope]

nope, not at all like anyone in my family. well, my mom's a quiet person, so am I but I'm not shy, just quiet but when i talk it's usually because i have something important to say. As for everyone else, very, very different from me...my youngest brother and i have the same taste in music, but that's as far as it goes....he's more goth, kinda preppy punk rockish....and i'm more angry preppy activist.

[Silver_FireStar]

Yup, I look like sammy, act like daddy and am as imature as mummy and the whole lot of the naylor tribe are mad.

[misschief]

we are ALL very similar

[BabblingImp]

Well ok I'm my mothers child! I have her hair the widows peak, her eyes, but my fathers green! her skin color fair never tans :ugh: , and her not so good luck with men :fpatricks ! But I'm taller and lighter than she is so I'm more like my Grandmother (she was a model yhea scary!) I get my passive agressive from my father (learned he is my step dad!) But as far as my humor, Impishness, use of words, and imagination goes that is MINE ALL MINE :muwaha: and I believe I have her temper, but I'm not afraid of my temper and I can be more voilent, I get my suberness from my Grandmother (My mom tells me she head stories that her mom could be down right nasty as a young child!) I have my Grandfathers singing voice (He was an Irish tenor) and his loosing things such as thought and car........funny sorties another time I will tell! as far as I know thats about it! so yes I am like my family, and I like it, non of my family members have done anything really stupid so I like it! :woot:

[banondraig]

i look like my mom and act like my dad. although in some ways i am like my mom as well, and i get my temper from my late grandmother. the rest of my dad's family i just don't seem to fit in with, even though they are my family and i love them, i am afraid to find out what would happen if i ever came out of the broom closet to them. :(

[Cev'aq]

I'm somewhat like my family... We have different beliefs, but personality-wise, I'm very much like my mother. And I think I got my twisted sense of humor from dad.

[Breathless Falcon]

wow, what a question!

I have a small family I resemble mom and think like my dad. My brother is 10 yrs older, no kids,2 dogs and a cat. I consider myself the black sheep, 3 kids, 2 marriages, have had alot and lost it(bankruptcy). Now I'm starting over in Germany. No one in my family would just move to Germany they arn't that outgoing.

Falcon

[OriginalWacky]

Anyways, are you anything at all like your family, including parents, siblings, grandparents. How and if not why? What about them are you trying or trying not to inlude in your personality, home, new family etc.? Are there differences between you and them that cause conflicts?
Well, this could take hours. I'll make it really brief. My family is very widely varied, so there are going to be those that I am like no matter what. For the most part, I am almost the opposite of the nonmaternal, and quite similar to my dad. My brother (half) and I have some things in common. I'd like to be like my grandfathers, who were both very special people. My kids are a LOT like me.

[lilromantyc]

I am nothing like my family. My mom, sister, and brother (to me) are off their rockers most of the time. But they understand each other perfectly. My mom swears if she hadn't given birth to me, she'd think I was left on the doorstep. My dad...well I'm a little more like him, what with the sarcasm and the temper (lately that's kinda disappeared though), but I'm still very very different from him.

[Tsuchimaru]

Nope.

[LadyTrinity]

As much as I hate to admit.. I am alot like my family.
Some times it scares me how similar I am to my dad considering I was raised by mom and rarely see Dad. You'd think moms traits would have rubbed off more? :rollingla

[Flaire]

So far, I seem to be getting health problems from the family. How's that for luck. :rolleyes:

[OKmagnolia]

My family is so alike that it is scary sometimes. We all have a good since of humor, we are all sarcastic, we all resemble one another, among other various traits. There is those of us that do share more traits than others. But you can tell that we are all from the same family when we are all together. But for me personally, there is noone else that I would like to be like than those that I love most in this world. Matters of fact, I call my oldest daughter "My mini-me" she looks like me, talks like me, acts like me.She is her momma's daughter for sure.

[9-2-2]

My family
Mum: Stubborn, sense of honor, loves to cook, strict, Asian, loosely Buddhist.
Old man: Simple, strong sense of discipline, can become violently angry, not a good multi-tasker, devout Christian, strong political inclinations, military career (20 years), extremely focused, not Asian, strongly moral.

Me
Half-Asian, loves to cook, loose sense of honor, stubborn, simple, can become violently angry, horrid multi-tasker, thinks politics are retarded, artistic, intrigued by goths, civilian, extremely focused, occultist, gamer, loosely amoral.

[Élistariel]

It's hard for me to tell really. I haven't seen my father since I was 7, and I haven't seen my mother since I was 13. I was raised my my mother's first cousin and her husband. I still "write" my parents, well I do know. I had to wait till last year to do so. My "grandparents" - mom's first cousin - they raised her too, wanted nothing to do with her.
Gran - I'm a little like her. We will both hold some serious ground in an arguement.
Dad - I have a bit of his temper. I'm usually as laid back as my "grandfather" but I can be easily provoked. If you tick me off, I'll attack, even at the slightest provocation. I blame that on being a leo-boar. When I get angry, I just lash out. I can't help it. Do NOT follow me when I angry, if we are in an arguement, let me leave, and when I have cooled off I will come back and THEN calmly discuss whatever. Unlike my Dad I don't resort to physical violence. He was very controlling.
Mom - nothing like her. Same interests yes. I don't know how she is now really. My mom was the type of teen who smoked, hanged out with the "wrong crowd" and even went skinny dipping in February once. I would not be caught dead doing any of that. When she married my Dad, she stayed with him, even after he beat her AND me to a pulp and forced her to have 4 or 5 abortions. She doesn't stand up for herself very well. She is now remarried to a great guy, but my Gran doesn't approve because he was married when she met him. (even his kids thought their mom was B.).
I'll tell you what I think to your face. I'll do what I can to make it sound decent. I won't go up to a person and say "Geez you are uuuugly." that' s just rude. But if someone were to ask me if they thought a pair of pants made their butt look big, then I'd tell them. I see no reason to lie. That's one thing that makes me different from my family. I don't do it in front of them though. They just want to be nice to people, which is all good an well, but in the long run the truth is more beneficial.
Also unlike my Gran, I am much more forgiving. I email my father despite what he did. I don't care if my mom fell in love with a married man.

They are only human, as am I.

On a side note, my little second cousin once removed is a mini-me. I've been called by her name before and she has been called by mine. I was one independent child.

Oh and on me holding my ground in an arguement, I have a little story. I don't remember the exact prices, but the one provided should be sufficient.
once when I was about 5-8, I was at a flea market. I wanted to get my Pop a nascar cap. The price said something like $5. I took it to the woman to pay for it.
"That'll be $6.15"
"The price tag says $5"
"Yes, and with tax that is $6.15"
"The price tag SAYS $5, it does NOT say $5 plus tax. "
*several minutes of argueing, and my Gran in the background thinking *Good God woman just give her the cap, you aren't going to win*
"Fine I'll give it to you for $5, but just this one time."
"That's fine, all I want is the cap"
Yep, little me won an arguement with a sales lady. :woot:

also I come from a line of good cooks, my mom, my great aunt, my grandma on my father's side. I however, have set rice on fire. My cooking skills involve 1. open box, 2 put in microwave 3. set time

[Xentor]

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[fahawk]

I see traits that are alike in members of my family- or that we do things the same way- I even can see it in my kids..different things that remind me of another family member..
yet..for the traits we have the same, we are also 'all' very different.
Just for example, I chose my own path- including homebirth,,which many of my family thought was just a terrible idea, ( until after the fact- and they could recognize the goodness of it)
homeschooling my young ones..till they reach the age ( around 7th grade- to decide whether to go on to reg school) .. my approach to parenting.. lifestyle..so many things..I do differently then any one else in my family..
strange to have many traits alike- and yet many basic ones that are so different..

[WickedBttrfly]

Well i look just like my parents. But I like to think thats where the likeness ceases. I don't really act anything like my mom, except for maybe we are both open-minded... Then again she wasn't really a part of my life from the time I was 10 until I was 15. As for my dad? I guess I get my addiction to video games and occasional lazyness from him. I wish I was a little more responsible like my mom, but thats it. I love my mom but I don't wanna be like her. She lives for her job and making money it seems. I really don't want to be anything more like my dad than I already am. My favorite family member would have to be my uncle. He helped raise me, and we have the exact same sense of humor. Actually we just act a lot alike period when I think about it. Except he's a little more sensitive (feelings wise) than I am.
I call my youngest brother Josh(on my dads side) Mini-me cause he looks and acts just lke me. And the funny thing is that I've been around him only once. I live in Ga, they live in Tenn. I joked with my dad that he was wrong when he thought he had finally got rid of me cause Josh was just like me :muwaha:

[Know Your Rights]

Genetically, yes... except appearance. My mom has blue eyes and dark hair, I have hazelishee blue grey green brown eyes with a light brown hair. My sister has darker hair and blue eyes, all my siblings, in fact, have blue eyes and dark hair.
My grandma was ambidextrous, 4 of her 5 children where left handed, my mom is right handed, 3 of her 4 are right handed, I am ambidextrous.
My mom and I both have bent pinkies and hitch-hikers thumbs, and can taste PCP paper (be grateful if you can't, highly gross).
My family is more of a please everybody type, and I don't mind pleasing everyone, so long as I don't suffer too much for it. My mom can't say no, I use no a lot...
In short, I look nothing like my family, act nothing like my family, and only have a few visible traits like the rest of my family.

Editted to add: In fact... I find I have more in common with my aunts family (she's really not my aunt... just, like an aunt), at least appearance wise. Same hair colour, similar personalities, she even said I reminded her of her when she was my age, which is cool, cause she's such a wonderful person and has three entirley beautiful kids.

[WingedTigerChild]

Insofar as looks...I look like both of my parents, however, I am the only one with natural red hair, as well as green eyes...errr...well my uncle and my cousin have hazel. My mom, dad, and sister all have brown hair and brown eyes. My other sister had blonde hair and brown eyes, but that's not unusual, as both of my parents were blonde as children.

Personality-wise, I have the same witty sense of humor as my dad's side of the family. We're English, so you can imagine. Just think Monty Python...or Austin Powers. lol Both of my parents are short-tempered, something I have definitely inherited, but I'm getting better about it. ;) Unforunately, there are several medical problems I've inherited as well...especially from my mother. Hmmm...I think that's it. I tend to go beyond the "normalcy" of my family, which to others is weird anyway, so yeah...I tend to be a bit more broad-minded on a lot of issues and things. I'm the family rebel, or so I've been termed. lol *Sigh*

[Raven Reed]

I am nothing like dad's side and my mother's side I haven't seen since I was three. Physically, I think I take after my mother, but that's all I know.

[morrigen]

I very rarely see something in myself that reminds me of anyone in my family. But 99.5% I am nothing like my family. My mother has that do what everyone else wants just to make them happy although you don't want to mind frame and so we clash on that I refuse to be that way. And she is good at guilt trips which I'm still trying to learn not to fall for.

My dad and I get along occasionally althought he's the one I hate between the 2 of them for ruining my childhood and because he's ignorant, sexist, racist and a bully. (I inherited my temper from him) He and I clash because I'll go head to head with him on all of those topics and I always stood up to him when I was growing up when he'ld start family fights.

As for my sister we get along better when we're not in the same room together. She calls me wierd because I'm not afraid to do things that aren't mainstream (being Wiccan included) and that I have a bigger pair of balls than her.

Swap "sister" for "brother", throw in a bit more abuse, and you have my family....

No, I'm not much like them, and that's why they don't approve of me. Luckily, I'm learning not to care.

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[~~Cypher~~]

Who me? Well my family is hard headed, stubborn, tempermental, sleeping tiger type thing, and well me, I am hard headed, stubborn, tempermental, sleeping tiger type thing. so noooooooooo I am so not like them!

[Shadowulfe]

im quite a lot like my father and granddad. we are all sarcastic (including my 2 brothers) put us all together, and you will be running out of the room due to the extreme sarcasm

[Kalika]

I'm not really much like anyone in my family...we just have different views about everything. They always think they're right, their way is right, and that everyone should do what they want... and aren't very open to new ideas and new ways of thinking. :p

Small town mentality I guess.