Being the "easy child" wasn't a compliment…

it was survival mode disguised as maturity. You were the one who "never caused problems." The one they "never had to worry about." The one who stayed quiet while your sibling got all the attention, care, and emotional energy. And now? You're an adult who struggles to ask for help, who minimizes your own needs, who feels guilty for wanting to be seen. Here's what being the glass child taught you: 1️⃣ Your needs don't matter as much as everyone else's You learned early that asking for attention was selfish. So you stopped asking. 2️⃣ Love is conditional on being low-maintenance The less you needed, the more "good" you were. So you became invisible. 3️⃣ Your pain isn't valid unless it's a crisis If you weren't bleeding or breaking, your feelings didn't count. So you learned to suffer silently.