<p>compare you to your sibblings/cousins/friends around your age? How do you feel?</p>
<p>yes, all the time. They compare me to my older brother. It sucks, but I think it's supposed to motivate me.</p>
<p>Life in general sucks.</p>
<p>^ "supposed to motivate me"</p>
<p>Good point, I never think of that, I just feel kind of mad when they say that.</p>
<p>No, because my mom understands that it could go forever; i.e. if you eventually outdo your super-genius cousins and stuff you'll be compared with top in the nations; then those nobel-prize people and etc...</p>
<p>Yeah they do all the time, "Why can't you be more like #####? She's the valedictorian, and you can bet she didn't get there by NOT studying like you do!"
UHH I'm salutatorian, come on.</p>
<p>I get compared to my brother. He got the looks and the ability to manipulate people, and I got the brains and being a good person.</p>
<p>Fittingly enough, he's in law school, and I'm working on my PhD in engineering!</p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>No one can compare to moi :)</p>
<p>(truth is, there really isn't anyone around my age)</p>
<p>No, because my younger brother gets Fs and such. The only result would be one brother with an inflated ego and another gushing tears.</p>
<p>They used to always compare me to my friends who were less "lazy".</p>
<p>All the time, but I don't care.</p>
<p>Yep; it's one of those Fundamental Laws of Asian Parents.</p>
<p>Not usualy but they sometimes compare me and my sister then I call them on it and they deny it and whatever we were discussing before is forgoten because of this new fight.</p>
<p>They compare me to the two guys who made it to Harvard and Yale, and to the girls who made it to Johns Hopkins and Duke.</p>
<p>One of the great things about going to a Chinese-majority church!</p>
<p>Of course, they try to overlook the two guys who are going to Community College and UNF.</p>
<p>I get the "you're the good child" comparison from my mom's "fiance" since Mom and I live with him and his daughter, who is a total slack off (She has had to go to summer school for the last three years and is repeating a freshman class for the third time at school this year since its not offered at summer school.). So I in turn get the you are so great and I wish ******* was like you! Why can't she be like you?</p>
<p>Then my mom half the time doesn't seem to understand my accomplishments (niether does her fiance, but nonetheless) so I don't normally get any reconition from her, comparisons to or a you did so much better than.</p>
<p>Honestly it shocks me how annoying the "good child" comparison is, although to be negatively compared to others often is probably more annoying and stressful.</p>
<p>No. It stopped when my brother dropped out of college and my sister dropped out of high school...Actually, they still nag me about doing more chores and being more like my 'older sister' when she was my age. Sometimes I get ****ed off and scream, "You want me to have a baby and drop out?" ...parents-what can you do?</p>
<p>YES!
they are usually like: you are better than your cousins therefore you can get to a better or equal college..
I feel like they overestimate me...</p>