Are you the black sheep of your family?

Well, no. I play piano, my cousin is pianist. They say I'm pretty (no, I'm not self centred, but that's what they told me), but I look totaly like my great grand mother, so it's not really me. I'm just myself. I guess, you don't have to use black sheep term as offensive.

Nope

I'm the shining jewel. (and the modest one too!) Seriously, my sister is the black sheep. She ran away and joined the circus.

Yes, I am the child-of-bohos-who-moved-to-the-Third-World out of a clan of SUV-driving-and-weekend-barbecue-get-togethers folks. And I really, really flake out of family reunions. But the truth? I can't stand any of them.

Oh, and I forgot; my entire family is tall, and blonde or red-headed; picture me as Salma Hayek being the fourth sister of the Brady Bunch.

So in all aspects, I suppose I really am the "black" sheep.

What does "flake out of" mean?

An example; I have an appointment with Ms. X as 3:00 o' clock. By cancelling it for no apparently important reason, I am "flaking out".

oh yes

Yes and no. We have a lot of different kinds of people in our family. There must be black sheep, red sheep, purple sheep... No one stands out as being different than all the rest, because we aren't a lot alike.

if it hadn't been for my cousin, who is the same age as me. i probably could have been up higher on the "black sheep" list in the family.

That depends on whether your talking about extended family or not. My whole immediate family is a black sheep family.

OIC!

Hare Krishna!

Yes, I am and proud of it. I don't drink or do drugs. Also I am only child in my family who finished high school and made something of myself...... :)

I don't know. They won't talk to me.

You MUST tell me more! What kind of circus? What did she do there? Did she travel the world? Is she still in it?

Yup. No doubt about it.

Depends on who you ask.

Does she get to ride an elephant?

yes,was as a teen, then several cousins took the title, but I managed to get it back several years ago and have retained it since, in immediate family it is a definite yes

Out of all of my family, it would have to be me!

I didn't use to be, but I'm thinking that I definitely am now. But I'm not totally different than everyone else. Just different in one way.

It is nice not to be a carbon copy of the rest of the group. They always wait too see what I'm going to do. before they make a move it's kind of funny :)

It's one of those family things my folks don't like us to discuss, I however, have no problem telling anyone who'll listen. It was more of a traveling amusement park, but they did have livestock. My sister, groundhogs and a hammer; use your imagination. After one "on" season she experienced the "off" season and came home much more appreciative and responsible. "Off" seasons are spent at logging camps where women do ALL the laundry and cooking.

Well, she's married now, so I'd have to say "no", but part of me wants to comment about my my brother-in-law and his diminutive stature.

Oh, man! It sounded cool until I got to the sexist part.

Never mind. I'm not jealous now.

If you want to, then do it.

Oh boy ain't I.

Sort of. That's hitting a sore spot.Care to listen? When I was in my teens I was very angry and rebellious and was in everybody's face. It was a reaction to several things going on in my life. One of them was being molested by an uncle. Of course, I had some members of the extended family who would rather believe that I was a rotten lying little so-and-so rather than believe that their own brother was capable of that.To this day there are a couple that still believe it.I'm still pissed about it. (Does it show?)Ha! Ha! (This is not an original event I know.) Let's stamp out pedophiles!!!!!

Not really...I'm exactly like my mother.

Well, somebody had to be!

Absolutely! I am the only wiccan in a family of christians and that didn't go down well. My sister is a terrible mummies girl and I only recently moved out of my mothers house to live with my father after 8 years so for most of my childhood I've been kind of the outcast in my house. My mums sister says she felt the same when she lived at home so the family member I relate most to is my auntie Janet who is also a wiccan and doesn't get on with my mother like I dont get on with my sister

Not just different, but disliked because the member of the family is not up to the same standards as the rest of the family.

My oldest brother is, poor guy.