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Birth Order: Shaping Personality

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Childhood Experiences and Birth Order; Shaping Personality I cannot emphasize enough the love that I feel for my family, nevertheless, ignore the psychological processes and dynamics of my family birth order, and how it impacted my life even up to the present day. Birth order has a great deal to do with my personality and how I was approached by my siblings and my parents. Without a doubt, who I am today, how do I cope with conflict and even where I live in the present moment has a lot to do with my childhood as well. Alfred Adler, a contemporary of Freud and Jung, first put forth the idea, claiming that when a child is born their birth order deeply impacts their personality. According to Adler, the firstborns are achievers, perfectionist,
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