Have you or anyone you know turned out completely different than sibling raised the same

My 2 kids born 4 years apart. Totally complete opposites, raised in the same ways

my brother and i are different in virtually every way, three years apart and raised the same.

I'm an only child so no first hand experience, but thinking abotu people I know I think this is the case for A LOT of them.

Example 1
Older brother- childhood frickup, legal troulbles, marines, construction
Younger sister- straight arrow, doctorate

Exmaple 2
Older bro- disciplined strictly. High expectations. Well educated, high paying white collar job
Younger bro- hippie-ish. Long hair, not as disciplined, works in a co-op, plays in a band

Example 3 - Twins
Bro- decades long drug user. hard partier. free spirit, single (almost 40), moved across teh country
Sis- straight arrow. barely left hometown. Settled down with HS sweetheart and had kids immediately

Etc etc

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My 2 kids born 4 years apart. Totally complete opposites, raised in the same ways

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same with my 2 sons that are about 2-1/2 years apart.
polar opposites of each other.

one can't multiply 1x3 without a calculator, but can read an entire encyclopedia in one sitting.
other can't read an entire Dr Seuss book but can do Algebra in his head.

*obviously exaggerating a bit, but that's how different they are*

Yeah. My brother is a fricking loser. And I’m awesome.

Yes. I’ll add from my youngest to oldest is a 20 year spread. I am not the same person over that window so they experienced different dads is you get what I mean.

3 kids catholic education. 13 yrs.

2 don't go to church at all. 1 didn't baptize her kids. Both raised conservative and are now die hard dems.

The only boy is conservative to this day and is raising his family as God intended.

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Have you or anyone you know turned out completely different than sibling raised the same

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Only everyone who has a sibling.

my sister is 3.5 years younger than me but we do not really have a relationship anymore. she graduated from bama in 2014 and moved to atlanta shortly after. she and my BIL do very well for themselves, both in 6 figure jobs. something went off in my sisters head to where she acts like shes too good for everything and everybody. she doesnt answer text messages with any regularity but will update social media via stories, she hasnt told our mom she loved her in 5 years, and what really hurts is the fact I have a 7 week old baby and she did not even send me a text message of any sort of congrats after she was born. Throw in the fact that she hasnt even attempted to come meet her. i sent her pictures of her niece every day for a week to try and test her a little and she never responded to one of them. its really sad actually because we used to be close. she really is the worst type of person in every way and actually feel bad for my BIL. I think she has an undiagnosed personality disorder but thats neither here nor there.