It got so bad with this troper that his parents are ''aware'' of their favoritism of his his little brother. Not only do they do nothing about it, but they ''openly talk about it to me.''

This troper's late father favored her. Mostly because I was a cuckoolanderish StrangeGirl who mostly stayed on his wavelength. He did also love my mother and older brother, of course, but they were more "normal" (especially my brother), and he couldn't relate to them as much.

This troper's dad favored her brother when it came to maturity. By maturity, I mean handling blood and gore. But I don't constantly have my grades watched like a hawk.

This troper isn't really sure where he stands here. His little sister is given a lot more leeway than what he was given when he was her age, but she also argues a lot more with her parents and every time they go out of town it is he who has to take care of the business, but that can be attributed to age.

This troper's mother observed that when either of us (referring to this troper's sister and this troper)got into trouble, she was easier on this troper, while this troper's dad was easier on this troper's sister

This troper's become kind of a WellDoneDaughterGirl due to her half-sister clearly being Dad's favorite. (Understandable, since she lives with him. But still.)

Are you me?Just that in my family, we all live together. And I'm the middle one to boot.

Completely Averted in the case of this troper, though he did once trick his mother into calling him "My most beloved son" by calling her "My most beloved mother" (she has no competition, just so there's no misunderstanding).

This troper's family is interesting - two kids, two parents, and each parent has favourited a different kid. As the stuff at the bottom of TheUnfavourite entry says, this is fairly natural. The kid in question takes after the parent, they like similar things and get on well together. Unfortunately, this all got a bit ugly when the parents split up. It's got to the point where one parent very rarely sees the kid who isn't their favourite.

This troper's family has an unintentional example. Years back, this troper's older brother was diagnosed early with AD/HD and the parents focused on him due to some coping problems and school. This troper was capable of taking care of himself with minimal parental intervention and was somewhat alienated when he reached highschool and was ''then'' diagnosed with AD/HD. To this day, relations between this troper and his parents are awkward, but we still keep trying to patch things up.

This has become a joke in my family -- my brothers and I constantly aks our parents "Am I your favorite?" (They always say yes.) Also, once my Biology teacher, who teaches both of my brothers, asked why my parents asked to meet with him about them and not me. I told him that, as the middle child, my parents didn't care about me as much. And he believed me. Awkward...

My mother is the middle child of three. When she and her sisters were young, Grandma used to distribute the chores by saying "You two older girls do this, and you two younger girls can do that". Though, once Mom finally got mouthy enough to complain about the double chore assignments, Grandma admitted it was unfair.

Averted with this troper: I am the middle child, but also extremely introverted. This led to a lack of interest in going out and a stronger natural focus to study, eventually birthing paranoia in my parents that they were neglecting me while my two siblings were all over the place and generally getting everything they wanted; it's easy to get what you want when it's all pretty reasonable. It took some doing to convince them I was quite happy being left alone to stay at home, thanks.

My brother accuses of my parents of doing this with me, though it's ABSOLUTELY not true. (Though the way he acts all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was true)

Amusingly averted in this troper's case; her older brother had an argument with her mother that "You let Indigo live at home rent-free!", to which the mother replied, "You can live at home too if you want." Which of course he didn't, he was just venting randomly.

This troper is blatantly the favorite out of himself and his two siblings, but would say that it's less a predeterminated factor and more the inherent reward for knowing how to manipulate others and their feelings as well as not doing anything completely stupid towards them.

Justified when my sister never got hit the way I did because she has Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Meaning if they weren't careful with punishing her, she'd have a broken jaw. (People with OI have often gotten Broken Bones from something as simple as a ''diaper change'')

This troper's mother is somewhat obsessed with avoiding the trope. As she explained a few times, she gives exactly the same amount of money to her son and her daughter because she doesn't want them to compare the numbers one day and decide one of them was the unfavorite. Unfortunately, anyone who spends 10 minutes talking with her knows that she prefers her son, so it seems less like equality and more like her trying to buy her way out (sometimes life is just {{Unwinnable}}).

This troper has noticed her parents give her a lot more privileges and freedom than her older brother as they trust her more to be mature and level headed. However they also get on her case because she's not very good at school or sports like her brother and tend to brag about him more to family and friends.

I'm not the Unfavourite, but when the family get together it's always my brother they talk about. Ah well, it's the curse of being the younger sibling. Everything has already been done before.

Heeeeey! My sister's the same way! :O it's always about her. Course, she lives out of the house, I still live at home. Although it was always pretty much...her becuase she was the overachiever, whereas I was like, "I don't ''need'' to do that stuff...". Of course, my sister is a lot more...well rude towards me.

My dad seems to favor me... Maybe because I'm the most tomboy-ish out of my sisters?

Same here. Since I was more of a tomboy growning up, my dad basically seemed to think of me as his son (his only children are my older sister and me, and I think he may have wanted a boy). Now that I'm a teenager I've grown from being boyish to just a little more girly and feminine (though I don't really think of myself as particularly one was or the other). The "favoritism" aspect hasn't changed all that much, though. It's just that the cause has changed, from me essentially being his "son" to being somewhat of a Daddy's Girl.

This troper was convinced that her brother was the favorite for the longest time. Looking back, it was ''actually'' entirely based around one incident: her brother kicked her in the back of the neck, and my father announced he was as angry at me for not telling him for 24 hours as he was at my brother for kicking me in the back of the neck. Her realizing that this was her father having a bad day, not this, kicked off one big WhamEpisode that made her realize she had been projecting this sort of thing on a lot of people.

This Troper has a brother who was favored. Although I didn't know it at the time, it later turned out he was my half-brother and he was my stepmom's real son, so I guess it makes sense.

My father once decided my younger brother was his favorite kid because my brother liked the color my dad painted a bathroom, and I didn't. Of course, my dad often jokes about who the favorite is, basing his decision entirely on who was agreeing with him or who wasn't causing trouble.

My youngest cousin seems to be the favourite of our generation, with me being the second (He's youngest, I'm eldest). Everyone dotes on him, they give him new toys rather than the hand-me-downs his brother and sister got, my mother, his godmother, is very glad she got 'the handsome one' and even though he's a bigger brat, our grandparents are more likely to complain about his siblings acting up. And despite being an aloof teen and withdrawn young adult who didn't go to university and has trouble finding work, my grandparents tend to show more interest in me than my sister, whom they constantly ask when she'll be married (She's 19). My family's not that open about it, but they don't try to hide it.

This troper attended a seminar on family issues that come up in relationships with others, and the lecturer quite frankly said that there is always a "favored child" (which may differ for each parent). The presence of an emotional favorite is not necessarily a problem, but rather how fair the parents were in action and treatment. This troper himself was an only child, so this dynamic foreign is to me.

This troper's mother was TheUnFavorite compared to her younger brother as far as her father was concerned, despite said brother's wild youth being the stuff of family legend. And then she had kids, and ''my'' brother ended up being the ''grand''parental favourite. Thankfully, I'm rather a lot brighter than my mother.

This troper's husband has sometimes felt like this in his family, being the middle child and extremely introverted. His older and younger siblings are far more extroverted. It's clear enough that the parents love all three kids very much, and he acknowledges this, but has often felt like the WellDoneSonGuy just by comparison with the other two, who are much more financially successful. (It helps that he's done at least one thing of which his parents completely and overwhelmingly approve -- he married Troper.)

Parodied in This Troper's house where we sometimes joke I'm the favorite, but really there aren't favorites.

Though she knows her parents don't do this intentionally, this troper is her father's favorite while her brother is her mother's favorite. (1st person) My mother can relate more to my younger brother than she can relate to me, though it's not to say that she flatout ignores me or whatnot. She just babies him more. I get along more with my father because I can tolerate him and get his sense of humor, which my mother and brother cannot.

I'm my parents' favorite because i'm a good student (straight A's), get lots of awards, and I'm generally good at everything but sports, which is ok because no one in my family likes sports. Poor, younger siblings; I've set the bar real high.

This troper is a middle child, which normally results in being neglected if there is favoritism at all. But here's the thing: I'm a manipulator, I have a social disadvantage, and I'm smarter than the other two children, both of whom are above average. As a kid, I always--accidentally, no less--turned anything I did wrong into somebody else's fault, took things that weren't mine, convinced others to give me things I didn't deserve, and got my parents to favor me anyway. As things stand I've toned it down, taking only what I need from others with manipulation, but I can still get almost anything I set my mind to having. Yes, I sound awful, but everybody likes me, even if it is begrudgingly sometimes when they know what I do.

This tropette is the oldest (older) child, and for some reason is better liked than her little brother. Maybe it`s because I was ( and still am, in their opinion) more mature and reasonable than her brother at his age (9). Either way, I`m a somewhat forced role model for him, and he is a serious attention- seeker.

When this troper and her little sister were young, we always thought the other was their parents favorite. But now it's become clear that I'm mom's favourite. Sure that she love us equally and try to treat us general the same (like buys the same stuffs for both of us wherever she goes shopping), but my sister has told me that mom rarely to never hug or cuddle or have mother-daughter talk to her while she does that to me at least twice a week, and personally make clothes for me when she has chances. Dad is still unclear but our aunt who live with us clearly favor my sister.

This Troper suspects this might be the case - not in her family, but in her ''cousins'' family. My uncle met a girl when he was quite young and had a son, but after a while they split up. Both my uncle and his ex have since met other people and started families. My uncle met a woman with a son from a earlier relationship and a few years ago they had a daughter together, all of whom they love (seemingly) equally. However, the ex met a single man with whom she's gotten another son with and it's pretty obvious that he's the one the new husband favours. This has made the cousin both confused and upset, to the point where he called this Troper's father in an attempt to talk and get a little approval. However, I have to admit that among my cousins he's ''my'' favourite, but that's pretty much because that his siblings, although cute, also are Annoying Younger Cousins as well as Spoiled Brats, especially the girl.