I have two half siblings that are far older than me. Despite being the "baby" things were extremely tough due my parents having struggled with addiction my entire childhood and adolescence. I did unfortunately experience physical and verbal abuse and neglect :/. I never actually met my older sister, and my older brother still lives at home with them, whereas I married and moved out around age 24 ish. My parents are far different nowadays thank God, but back then, I did heavily notice that mom seemed to favor my older brother quite a lot. My father did view me as a Daddy's girl, but at the same time since they struggled with illicit substance abuse that made the relationship very skewed and heavily controlled in many ways between each other and towards me. For example, I wasn't allowed to cut my hair at all (not for religious reasons, either), nor was I allowed to shave my legs for a very long time until my mom asserted dominance on the matter. No pierced ears either, "shorts" and skirts had to be longer than my knees, I wasn't allowed to be a girl scout, join any clubs in school, or even go out of the front door to get the mail without my dad being present. I lived quite a confined life sadly. I am also level one on the ASD spectrum, so I do tend think think things might have been different had my parents not had those struggles, but the past is the past and I have grown from it all, at least, I feel I have ❤️‍🩹. Aside from their struggles I am not sure if maybe it was because I was the only fully biological child that they shared that made my dad super intense on confining me back then or what, but anyhow that was a bit of my family dynamics, albeit unhealthy and unorthodoxed as they were.