Parents loving another child

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Is it possible for parents to love someone else's child? For instance if that child was smart, successful, has no aspergers?

You might be confusing 'love' with 'admire' here. Parent's can admire a child who is good looking, smart, social, polite, etc... but that's not the same as loving that child. Much like if I know a pretty, smart girl, I can acknowledge she's pretty and smart and fun to be with without thinking, "I think I love her more than my girlfriend." Love isn't a contest.

I felt the same way growing up.

Do you have any siblings? If so, do they have any disabilities? So growing up your parents treated you differently?

I wonder if this seems to be the norm. If parents had a disabled child and another one of their children was normal, the one who's disabled is treated like a dumba**!

Ditto. When I was growing up, my parents always used neighborhood kids, even my good friends that they knew, as an example for me, usually in a context of how they're a good kid and I'm worse than gunk in the kitchen sink. They were also much nicer to other kids than they were to me.

Interestingly, the topic of "parents nicer to other kids than their own" is explored in pretty good detail in one episode of Simpsons. It's the one where Homer opens a daycare center.