Black Sheep

[CrazyKell]

Are you the black sheep of your family?

My brother and I are so different it makes me wonder where the hell I came from? :lmao:

In fact, I'm very different in my view points from most/all of my family (even extended).

Anyone else?

[azoomm]

Simply put, yes.

[Dragonpaco]

definatly

[Riceaholic]

I have a younger sister and we couldn't be any different. We are like night and day. I'm exactly like my Dad and she's exactly like my mother.

[RACER X]

Simply put, yes.

prus 1

[Racerboy]

No question about it!!

[Porkchop]

Both parents and my brother are brown hair/brown eyed italian..... i on the other hand am blond hair/blue eyed polish. All of them are very down to earth smart 9-5 type people... i on the other hand am a big dreamer.

[wildchild]

isn't that what we all have in common? I a definitely the black sheep of the herd.

[CrazyKell]

Well at times I think I'm the black sheep....and to some extents I am.

But at other times I think it's my brother. I guess it depends what issue we're talking about.

I disappoint my parents continually, but in different ways than he does. :idk:

[wildchild]

I have one cousin that I've always been close to (out of many) when we show up at any family gathering we are "lovingly/jokingly" called the family rif raf. We have lived the "colorful" lives. Had a lot of fun though. :whistle:

[rogue]

Simply put, yes.

Yep....me too.

[Leon]

oh yeah,

[Smittie61984]

My sister and I are complete opposites (But we both were adopted from seperate parents). And then my mom's side of the family and my family are very different. One cousin is a West Point grad and now a Lt. in the Army Rangers. Another cousin is a MIT grad and does some kind of engineering job. Another is in France on a art scholarship and the rest are college grads with good jobs. All paid via scholarships too.

Then there is me.

[nhgunnut]

I was the black sheep for good reasons for a long time. When I started get myself squared away, I became threat because I was no longer the one they could be beeter than

[Archren]

In a way I was doomed from the get go. :lol: My siblings are all step-siblings who are older than me by at least 17 years. Even the ones I get along with (mainly my older brother Charlie) I still have very little in common with, and they generally don't socialize with me.

Hell, it wasn't until my mom blatantly pointed out that they were trying to schedule the date we were to spread my dad's ashes during the time period that I'd be deployed that they rescheduled it to where I could be there... and even then, there was bitching because of the inconvenience since it's during the school year. He may have been my step dad... but he adopted me when he married my mom and cared for me like his own. Guess that and the fact that my mom and I took care of him the last few days of his life (my mom the last few YEARS) didn't mean shit to them.

[the chi]

Damn Arch, that sucks hun, sorry you had to deal with that.

As for me, when it comes to physical appearance, yes, I definitely am the black sheep. I am much smaller and darker than anyone else. I actually look photoshopped into pictures with my sisters. Like that massive dog pic next to the woman! :lol: Not that my sisters are large by any means, but they've got me by almost a foot in height, as do my mom and dad and for some reason I look frail next to all of them.:idk:

When it comes to everything but appearance, I am not the black sheep, I think that would fall to my uncle that married the friend I grew up with or my oldest lil sis who persists in making poor decisions!

[smileyman]

Black sheep. No I am the one that is admired. Dammit. I am a closet black sheep though!

[t-homo]

I'm the badass of my family.

[Phenix_Rider]

Black sheep. No I am the one that is admired. Dammit. I am a closet black sheep though!

:lol: same here. No idea why :idk:

[Yamerhaw]

for sure the black sheep here:whistle:

[Tmall]

I was just going to say, I'm the opposite. I'm like the white sheep in a family of black...

[Adeptus_Minor]

In a way I was doomed from the get go. :lol: My siblings are all step-siblings who are older than me by at least 17 years. Even the ones I get along with (mainly my older brother Charlie) I still have very little in common with, and they generally don't socialize with me.


I totally get that.
I have two steps, both younger than me by..umm.. pretty close to 17 years also... and a half brother close to 26 years younger. :whistle:

Now, if the black sheep contest is between my natural brother and myself (he's 8 years younger), I think he's probably the black sheep.
Not that I have ever really bowed to the family's wishes, been good about visiting, or anything like that... but I've held down a steady job, pay my own bills, and I haven't ever been arrested. :lol:
That being the case, my parents and grandparents still seem to do stuff for him when he needs it... so maybe there is no black sheep?

[derf]

Well I continue to disapoint my family in ways that nobody else ever has. There is never a sound so sweet as hearing your grandfather tell your parents that he was "willing to pay for the abortion, and don't ya wish you took me up on that offer now".

Although my brother has been coming into his own lately and hearing my father tell him hes a shit bag really just makes me feel all warm inside.

[rogue]

Well I continue to disapoint my family in ways that nobody else ever has. There is never a sound so sweet as hearing your grandfather tell your parents that he was "willing to pay for the abortion, and don't ya wish you took me up on that offer now".

Although my brother has been coming into his own lately and hearing my father tell him hes a shit bag really just makes me feel all warm inside.


:wtf: Dude, that's just fucked up!

[derf]

In my fathers defense my brother really deserved it, I called him a shitbag too (was drinking and riding a dirtbike and ran into a buddy).

But yeh I dont talk to my grandparents

[Sixxxxer]

hRMMM...

i PLEAD THE FITH

[Adeptus_Minor]

hRMMM...

i PLEAD THE FITH

Does that include the right to untap the capslock key, drunk boy?
:lol:

[Sixxxxer]

my SHIGT key id stuck...FUCKI

[Hondahugger]

I'm pretty close to my entire family, visit often and stay in touch with even cousins, aunts, uncles, gramms, etc. I even communicate a lot with family members on my mom's side of the family that I've never met before. Email is a wonderful tool. Although since my mom died, it seems like she was the link that kept it all together and the emails flowing. My dad's side of the family has always been close and we all still are.

As for the black sheep of the family, my family had black twins. One was my sister Patti who committed suicide in 95, enough said.... and the other is my mother's other daughter (I do not call her my sister) who has been a living hell, and then reincarnating into Satan himself when my mom got sick and wouldn't let any of the family near her for the 5 months before her death in November 07. She's still holding my mother's ashes ransom until the entire family kisses her ass enough to agree on when the lay her ashes to rest.

I would certainly say that she's the black sheep.

[rogue]

my SHIGT key id stuck...FUCKI

Or have you been drinking? :lol:

[Hondahugger]

Or have you been drinking? :lol:that was my thought too!

[njchopper87]

On my mother's side of the family I'm the black sheep no questions asked. On my father's side I fit right in. My direct family well.. sometimes I'm the blacksheep, but for the most part we all come to an agreement on most topics or issues. I know I'm either the first in my family or one of very few that has a bike.. so that has to count for something.

[JoJoYZF]

My sister is the black sheep of our family. Im into riding and drinking and have a lot of common sense which is all things I take after my dad even though he hasnt drank a lot since before I was born, but did when he was younger. My sister takes a lot after my mom, but she is also incredibly school smart with no common sense, where as my mom is more balanced between the two.

[Tsunami]

yes :(

I'm the child that doesn't live or meet anyone's expectations. My brother got his undergrad at Yale, masters at Columbia.

Both my parents and my brother are very focused and hardworking, respectful, you know all that traditional chinese values.

And then you have me. I have no attention span, no focus, didn't do too well in school, most if not all my money is made from hustling and other sales based jobs. Partied a lot when i was younger, now that i am older, i am just a flighty, carefree spirit.

My mom says i don't have any focus, don't have any plans / direction and all my hopes/dreams etc are unpractical.

I will say I am more like my father than anyone else, but thats mostly when it comes to not being able to work for anyone else.

[Sixxxxer]

Or have you been drinking? :lol:

Yeah I was WASTEDDDDDDDDD Last Night.

It was fun though.:whistle:

[LittleTaz]

:lol: Black sheep is putting it mildly... Let's see, older sister took a Home Economics degree from University of TN and started a business in her kitchen sewing window treatments and turned into a multi-million $ design business in Atlanta. Her husband was the south east regional director for a department store and quit to run the business with her... Oldest of my 2 brothers, dentist in SC, next older brother, analytical chemist that travels the world explaining how some equipment that the company he works for makes works and training scientists to use it.

And yep, then there's me... :)

[2up]

As those of you who had the "pleasure" of reading the email's sent back and forth amongst my family members know, the only real way to answer this is, my entire family is black sheep. We're all a bunch of whack-jobs in our own way, which does not mean we are criminals or anything like that. We're just all nuts. :) Even my "perfect" FBI Agent sister is a nut. :lol:

[Rider]

No I'm not the black sheep of the family. My brother took that title and I don't think he will ever get rid of it.

[Apoc]

I wouldnt say the 'black sheep'. On my dads side, they have been a lot harder on me than my moms. My moms side is very easy going. Lumberjacks, hunters, fisherman (and a few bums)

My dads youngest brother is one of my closest friends, and I have the utmost respect for his older brother, he and I get along great. My dads other brother thinks he's better then everyone else, and doesnt like me much, partly because I dont follow his mould of what everyone should be, and partly because I dont hold my tongue when he makes comments like everyone else does.

I get along great with my grandparents, but my grandmother absolutely HATES that I ride motorcycles and snowmobiles, and dont believe in god. I get lectured twice a week at least. I think she's scared ill die young and go to hell, lol.

[Fleck750]

My sister, who drank herself to death, held that title. Now I have it, I guess.
I'm the only that moved out of state, has had more than 2 jobs, owned and sold my house. Think the icing on the cake was I ran off to Florida to attend motorcycle mechanics school at 40 years of age. :dthumb:

[Amorok]

I don't talk to my family a lot, I don't know what they think of me. I don't really know them that well, I only met them around ten years ago. My dad's cool and he's never made me feel different, but I'm mom's kid from either a previous marriage or some dude she shacked up with, depending on who's telling the story. They're nice enough, but when we eat together my plate is different while theirs all match, and there are other little things like that.

I don't really know any of the family other than my parents that well, but I know about them and have met most of them. I don't talk to any of them, when I do they always seem nervous. However, when something goes bad they call me. Nobody asks for money anymore, but when my cousin's girlfriend was beating her and her kids and nobody could get things fixed, they called me. It was the first time I'd heard from them in months.

So I'm not really a black sheep, more of a Judas goat.