Originally Posted by
ouronis
I'd say I grew up with mostly alphas and betas. My brother and stepsister might be gamma. I don't feel close to anyone in my family in a really mindmeld, perfect acceptance kind of way, unfortunately, seems like no matter what I did I was pressing somebody's buttons and so things I thought were light-hearted, teasing fun always dissolved into arguments. I think this was good training for the real world, unfortunately, where thick skin is rarer than not (and half of the people with thick skin are crazy and aggressive).