'Why is the middle sister the craziest?'

"I'm the middle, and I can confirm I was the one chasing them with knives." 

A TikToker has caused hilarious online controversy by asserting that all middle children are "the craziest".

If you're a middle child, there's lots of evidence out there that you feel ignored, neglected, and much maligned.

Just look at the hashtag #middlechild - it has 2 billion views on TikTok.

Now a TikToker has come out and declared that they're probably the "craziest" too.

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Jade's assertion hit a nerve with many. Source: TikTok

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"Why it's always the middle tho?"

In a TikTok, @itsmejadeb, Jade Brandt, asks, "If you have a family with three or more girls, tell me which sister is the craziest, and why it's the middle one?"

She captions the video, "Why it's always the middle tho?"

And just like that, with this simple supposition, Jade Brandt, who has 32 000 followers, divided the internet by attracting almost 2000 comments.

Yes, mostly of siblings trolling each other.

Those who agreed

"I'm the middle, and I can confirm I was the one chasing them with knives."

"@kdurandetto is it me? Am I the drama?"

"I'm the oldest of us three girls and yeah my sisters tell their friends I'm crazy..."

"I was hoping you’d say middle. I’m the baby of three! My middle sister is 100% the craziest."

Those who could explain middle child syndrome

"Because we are gaslighted and our feelings are dismissed."

"This comment right here. Don’t forget blamed for everything automatically."

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The many who disagreed

"Uhh you mean the oldest sister."

"You said 'youngest one' wrong."

"Oldest = craziest, youngest = most attitude, oldest and youngest argue the most, and the middle just gets stuck listening to them argue."

"Middle children are more grounded in my opinion."

"I’m the middle and I’m the least crazy."

"I am so confused… my middle sister is definitely the least crazy."

The mum who forgot her middle child's birth date 

It can't be denied that being treated differently as the middle child is a thing.

Take for example the mum who recently realised she'd been celebrating her middle child's birthday on the wrong date for years.

Mum-of-three, Emily Vondrachek, shared a video to TikTok detailing the moment she realised she'd been celebrating her son's birthday on the wrong date for the last two years.

"Here's a little story to allow all the mum's of littles out there to maybe feel a little better about yourselves, here's a real confidence boost for you, OK, not for me," Emily says in the now-viral TikTok.

She explains that she'd just got off the phone with her almost-four-year-old son, Henry's paediatrician as they'd had trouble billing her insurance company.

"My son's birthday is the 26th, I'm his mother, I know his birthday," she says in the video where she explains that the insurance company says it's actually the 25th.

"I'm about to call up my insurance company to let them have it and I say, maybe I should scroll back on Facebook to look at the birth announcement years ago to make sure."

That's when Emily realises she's the one who's got the date wrong, and she's had it wrong for the last two years.

"For two years I'm been celebrating his birthday on the 26th," she continues.

"And now I have to call the paediatrician back and say, 'haha, you know what I had my son's birthday wrong'... And you want to know the worst part? It's my middle child!"

This post was originally published in February 2022 and was updated in February 2025.

Originally published as 'Why is the middle sister the craziest?'