How many siblings do you have?

[SourdoughStomper]

How many siblings do you have?

Well, it's rather interesting in my case. If you asked me 6 months ago, I would have said one. My older brother was the only one.

Then, I discovered I have an even older half-sister back in May. (Same mother.) Talk about being absolutely stunned! Kind of shook things up for me, I will admit.

And I'm still processing the idea because it was such a revelation. (I literally got a whopping headache that first day, as it felt like my head got a mental Thanksgiving-sized meal of information all at once.) But I'm steadily getting to know her a bit, and she finally knows her origins. How cool is that? She had been looking for decades.

Also, I was never going to have a sister-in-law or nieces/nephews because of my brother's perpetual bachelor status. I had to give that idea up long ago. All of a sudden, I have two nieces and a nephew.

So now, my answer is two siblings.

How about you?

[mopthebunny]

Three brothers -- I always had to play with ponies by myself lol

[Rainbowrific Renia]

I have a younger brother and a younger sister (technically half-brother and half-sister; same mother).  My brother is 14 (ten years younger than me) and my sister will be 16 next month (eight years younger than me).  We all get along well and my brother is pretty much my twin when it comes to personality and interests, even down to the fact that he's a huge nerd.   

[snwbear24]

1 brother 10 years older then me.

[kaoskat]

Just one unless you count the one in heaven that I never met because he or she died before he or she was born.

[bluerose9978]

My story is a lot like Stomper's. I grew up only thinking I had a younger sister. Then about 13 years ago now my mom called me and said I had a half-brother and he's found us. I didn't know what to think, knowing my mom has kept this secret from me and my sister for so long. My dad knew about it when he married her. Apparently she had gotten pregnant as a teen and gave her child up for adoption since the father wanted nothing to do with her or the baby.

So now I know I'm not the oldest sibling and I have a brother and two nephews.

[UrocyonFox]

6 siblings, I fall in the middle. Most are half siblings and I remember in elementary school when they ask you to draw your family I drew all my half siblings and the teacher looked at my drawing and told me "you don't have that many brothers and sisters" I tried explaining that they were my brothers and sisters and they would live with us during the summer. Then the worst possible thing a teacher could tell a child "Well they don't really count as brothers and sisters" how awful. my older sister was always very bitter toward me and I can't help but wonder if she was told the same thing as a child and maybe grew up thinking that and maybe that was why she was kind of mean to me. :/

I think your family is who you think your family is, full, half, adopted, honorary, friends, family is family.

Then like a few of you stated above I had a younger sister (she passed away in 2013) who was the child of an affair and my mother and father never told me. She reached out to my when I was in middle school, her mom had told her everything where as I had been kept in the dark the whole time. I remember thinking well we got 5 already whats 1 more when I met her. At the time I didn't understand that she was the "different" one because the other siblings were where dad was married then divorced, she was the product of an affair.

[Chi]

Half-sisters, a few of them! We only ever met when we were little ones.
I'd love to meet up with them now that we're older, I'm sure we would have a lot more to say.

[Tap Dancer]

I have one sister, who is 4 years older than me.

[SkyCakes]

Just one unless you count the one in heaven that I never met because he or she died before he or she was born.

I am an only child but my other siblings are in heaven too. My mom tried that's all I could say, it just wasn't in the cards for her. :/

[SourdoughStomper]

I think they count. They existed, whether it was a long time after birth, or only a short time before birth.

[Al-1701]

I only have a younger sister, but my dad is the oldest of seven brothers.

[xeevee]

I have 3.  2 half sisters and a brother.  My sisters have a sister who is my age that I call my not-sister.  She has nothing to do with me really, and I didn't even meet her until I was like 15 or 16 but we do talk a bit now.

My dad has a crazy sibling make up.  So he has 13 brothers and sisters that his mum had, and he was related to.  But when he was in his 40s, he found out that his biological dad had divorced his mum when he was a baby and then married her sister.  So the guy he always knew as his uncle was actually his dad, and his cousins were all his brothers and sister too.  So there are like 6 of those, plus a few step siblings too.  So weird, and redneck

[Aadra310]

Half, step, adopted, foster... they are all family and count as siblings!  How wretched of that teacher to say otherwise, Ufox!

I have a brother - 1 year and 9 months younger.  He's awesome.

[Sprinkles]

Four. A sister, stepsister, half sister, and half brother. The half sister is on my mom's side and the half brother and stepsister are on my dad's.