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In elementary were you friends with your siblings friends?

When I was in elementary, I had 1 friend in class usually but only in class and outside of class I would only hang out with my brother. My brother is my best friend probably now and back then. Since I am hanging out with my brother back then I would also hang out with his friends and tag along with him where ever he went. Back then I didn't really think of it as us being friends, I was simply hanging out with my brother who was hanging out with some other people. However now as an adult i would consider them friends I guess, they are always friendly to me now as an adult. Sometimes they will tell me stories of crazy things I did as a kid such a throw a metal dustpan at one of them and it hit him in the head.

Guess was wondering if anyone had similar situations, and if you are older now have you seen/spoken to your siblings old friends?

My mother got pregnant with me when my sister was 3 months old so we're very close in age. We weren't close growing up though. She was very capable socially and I guess I resented it. I was always saying the wrong thing and getting scolded and I was perceived as lazy because of my inertia. In high school people who didn't know our family didn't even know we were related. We look very different. I felt like a total p.o.s. next to her. We have a comfortable close relationship now since I decided I didn't have to be like her and want the things she wanted to be worth something. She is a good person and I love her.

I am very close in age to one of my brothers- (I am a little older than he is)....and, yes, I was (and still am) very close to him. According to my mother, he was my "best friend" when I was young. I vaguely remember never wanting to play with my peers, but preferring to play with my baby brother instead. My parents were a little worried about this- (my social problems were noticed at a young age, but I was not diagnosed, as AS did not exist as a diagnosis at that time). I remember my mother would sometimes force me to have kids from my class over to our house, to play with.....I guess it was her attempt to integrate me with other children. I also have a vague memory of my brother having friends over sometimes when he got older, and I would feel a bit jealous. I remember sometimes tagging along- (or there would be other problems)- but my mother would tell me to leave him alone, he had a friend over, and I should let them play by themselves. I didn´t understand this, I thought it was unfair, and it would upset me sometimes.

When I got older, our relationship became less intense for a time- more like "normal" brothers and sisters- as I became involved in my special interests. But now, as adults, we´re quite close again, though we usually only see each other in summer. We reminisce a lot about our childhood. I don´t hang out with his old friends, unless one of them comes over to visit my brother....(this only happens if we´re both visiting my father- i.e., our old family home- at the same time).

My brother is 2 years younger than me, we had the same friends on our street but in school I hung out with his friends in school even after I graduated I hung out with some of his friends. I was known as his wacky older brother who was smart but too lazy to try to accomplish anything. Granted this was all before they diagnosed for Aspergers.

Yes and I did it well into my 20's.

I used to hang around with my sister and her friends despite them being nasty to me and telling me to make my own friends and playing tricks on me.
Later on I tried to make my own friends, failing that I just walked around the playground on my own.

My sister was less than a year younger than me by ten days. We were close until we started school, but after school started it was like she disappeared, or grew faint. She was smart and nice. I was smart and odd. She had tons of friends and was popular. I had... well, you know.

I'm friends with my sister's best friend and my brother's girlfriend, but that's about it.
(I'm 17 months older than my sister, and my brother is 2 1/4 years older than me.)

not quite sure it counts but my sister is 3.5 years younger but we share some friends. never really hang around though, but talking does happen.

I have a twin brother, and so growing up we obviously shared the same social circles. However, until high school started, our friend groups were pretty separate. He was friends with all the jocks and the cool boys, and my friends were basically the nerds, geeks, and other oddballs. Once we hit high school, though, I became a lot more socially withdrawn, and we were both in pretty much all the same classes, so we started to have friends in common. We called them "our" friends, but really most of them were his friends who didn't really mind if I tagged along.

My sister is 2 yrs younger than me and we were at each other's throats growing up. As adults we have an amicable relationship but don't see each other more than once a month despite living 20 min from one another. It's the same with me and my mom and stepdad. Besides familial ties, we share almost nothing in common. If it weren't for the fact that I'm the spitting image of my dad, I'd have guessed I was adopted.

I had an older brother. (by 2 years) His friends were my friends up until I left the house and had to figure it out on my own. I would have 1 or maybe 2 of my own friends but they were always the outcasts of the class too.

My brother is about 2,5 years younger than me.
I don't know if he has friends. He certainly never brings any over or goes to hang out with them or anything. (Other than our cousin, whom I find somewhat annoying, but I suppose he is a 'friend' to me too? What's the definition of 'friend'? Someone I interact with sometimes and joke with? Can a relative be a 'friend'?)
I guess me and him (can someone tell me which words I should've used instead of "me and him"? Or is that correct? I want to know.) are quite similar in our introversion but he is more empathetic and emotional. I don't have friends I hang out with either.
I guess I consider him my friend. Well, he's my only friend. (unless you count in that cousin and some girl who used to be my friend years ago and now I occasionally say stuff to her on the internet) I still don't know the definition of friend I'm supposed to use for this...we're not such that we can "talk about anything", I've never known anyone like that. The only topic he's comfortable talking about is computer games. Which I don't have a problem with. I like him, but I am a bit afraid of him (which doesn't make any sense).

Two years younger than my brother - whatever trouble one of us got into, the other was usually involved. Not sure how I survived childhood with him - there was the time he left 2 yr. old me barefoot in the snow, crying "my feet are getting cold!" - and equally not sure how I would have survived it without him. We're still close, he's probably the person I'm most "normal" with. But he's also still a pain who has a lot to answer for.

Oh, and to actually answer the OP. Yeah, I usually hung around him and his friends. Like any annoying kid sister would, but partly because I had no friends of my own. I don't keep up with them but I like in hearing from him what they're up to these days.

I'm three years olde than my sister and I was friends with her friends for a while. I realized how stupid they were acting towards me and those friendships didn't last for long.

My twin brother and sister are both a year younger than I am. We are like triplets. I never got on well with their friends, but am very close to both of them. I feel they are my best interpreters in life. We all live in different parts of the world, but keep in touch constantly.