Today, a Reddit thread asked users, “What’s something that people without siblings will never understand?”

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The thread quickly went viral, as thousands of people started sharing the things you can only know if grew up with brothers and/or sisters.

Here are some of the best responses:

#1
“Why it’s a bad idea to put a light switch OUTSIDE the bathroom door.”
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#2
“That you don’t apologize after a fight, you just start talking to them again.”
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#3
“What it’s like to have someone who is both an accomplice and a rival.”
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#4
“That ownership of the TV remote is a matter of life or death.”
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#5
“‘Mom said it’s my turn to play the Xbox.’”
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#6
“The wave of fear that shudders through you at the moment your younger sibling bursts into tears within earshot of your parents because of something you did.”
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#7
“‘Please don’t tell mum! Look, you can hit me back!’”
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#8
“The amount of blackmail you have on each other that creates a Cold War scenario.”
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#9
“Having someone to complain about your parents to. I love my parents very much, but they are crazy sometimes.”
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#10
“That only the powerful or the fast get to take hot showers.”
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#11
“As an oldest sibling you may give the younger siblings sh*t. But nobody else is allowed to give them sh*t.”
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#12
“The experience of literally dehydrating yourself so you don’t lose the prime seat that if you get up from, will be stolen within seconds.”
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#13
“Having to hide your snacks because they’ll be gone in seconds.”
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#14
“Making your sibling laugh so their cries are not credible to the parents.”
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#15
“Getting offered something by your parents, saying no, and then when you see them ask your sibling, you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, I want that.’”
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#16
“That the oldest gets front seat. I am the eldest of four and had a monopoly on that front seat until we were all old enough to have our own cars.”
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#17
“The ever-changing alliances. Is my brother on my side or my sister’s side today?”
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#18
“The experience of hating someone who is literally just sitting in the same room as you and isn’t doing anything. Just their presence is annoying.”
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And finally…

#19
“That it’s possible to love someone who you usually hate.”
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