Do you have two older brothers close in age to you?

[MajorMischa]

If you are a woman and you have two older brothers AND no younger siblings AND the gap between you and your brothers is less than say 2.5 years...

Did you feel left out when growing up?
Do you feel left out as an adult?
If yes to either of these, do you think your parents could have done anything better to prevent you being left out?

I've got two boys, who are 2 years apart. We are considering a third child, but just worried that if it's a girl that the boys will be a 'gang' and the younger girl might feel left out. Obviously we won't raise the boys with building toys and then give the girl unicorns and a toy kitchen, but there are differences between boys and girls no matter how we parent. Especially once they are over 10 years old or so.
The age gap between the second boy and the hypothetical girl won't be more than 2 years. We will either do it soon or not at all.
I know you can't foresee their personalities, but I want to do my best to give them the best chance of all getting on equally well.

Any ideas welcome!

Oh, no replies! Maybe it was a bit niche 🙈

I'm the youngest with two older brothers, ones 16 months older and ones 4 years older so a bit out of the age range but considering there's no replies I thought I might give you my experience.
Me and the brother closer in age were best friends. Same friendship groups growing up all the way to late teens. Still close now, talk practically every day, both in our early 30s. The other one we got super close in my early 20s, went out drinking and partying together a lot, I was his baby sitter for his children a lot. Unfortunately we don't talk anymore but that's a whole different story.
Growing up I never felt left out, quite the opposite. They both wanted to take care of me and I was called 'the baby' for years! My parents treated us all the same. It was a great experience having two older brothers to be honest. I loved using the line 'ill get my brother on you' in primary school 😂
I have two young boys close in age and a third boy on the way, I'm beyond excited to have three boys with 2 years between them each.

Thank you! That is so helpful. That's only a slightly smaller age gap, so it's really good to hear you didn't feel left out. So there was nearly a three year age gap between your two brothers, and your middle brother was closer to you than the eldest... so potentially the age gap was more important than the sex of the children.

They’re not grown yet but we’ve 12 and 10 year old boys (17 mths apart) and a girl who is 8. Currently the boys hang out more together than with her as they go out to play with mates etc. however, when home, they all hang out together/fight with each other/love each other
there are things where we end up separating into boys and girls - mainly through interests eg they go mountain biking, she prefers to swim.
I can imagine their relationships staying fairly similar as adults but hopefully with less screaming at each other. They all intermittently pair up with another to then pick on the third that’s left out. But no gender divide there
they also secretly worry about her as the little one and get upset if she’s upset about a friend or whatever. Suspect that’ll also continue too.

My dad grew up with an older brother and younger sister all close in age, and he’s closer to his sister and that seems to have been since they were young. He’s a stereotypical man in terms of interests so it was nothing to do with liking girlie things. So you can’t predict these things.

I have two older brothers and two younger brothers. There are eight years between my oldest and youngest brother so we are all pretty close in age.

we were a unit, played on the same sports team, shared hobbies. When on holiday we often entered competitions as our own 5 a side football team.

I had the best of both worlds, a big family so always people to play with/ ask for help. But I also didn’t have to share my clothes.

we are less close now but I moved away from my home town and they all stayed.

Thank you so much everyone, this is so helpful.

I have two elder brothers, four and two years older than I. Oldest boy actually was left out a bit as he was "the responsible one"... but as it turned out, baby three (me) turned out to be baby three and baby four, so don't forget things may not turn out as you planned either way...

2 older brothers yes I felt left out! I used to get jealous that they shared a room and I didn't get to share with anyone. I don't think my parents could have done anything differently. I don't feel so left out now I'm older and I get on well with my eldest brother. I don't think it was the age gap or the gender more they just have different personalities to me.

Sorry I should say one is 3 years older and the other is 6 years older than me.