Well, I'm in the seventh grade. A lot of my siblings (there are five children in my family), seem abnormally isolated. Not in a way that they stay away from people, but their thoughts are isolated. I rarely leave my room in an attempt to stay out of fights. My family's oldest (male, junior, 16) always retaliates when she makes remarks. My younger brother (5th grade, 11) rarely talks about school life and is constantly making comments about him being the family nuisance and is picked on by her a lot. On occasion, he'll have an aggressive outburst against her and hit her when she never exhibited violence toward him- rather verbal abuse.

In my case, I used to love any attention I received mostly because when my sister was in middle school about 2-3 hours every night would be spent with her. That may not seem like very much, but my mom worked until 7 and my father 5-6. That was when we lived in the country and I shared a room with her. Sometimes she would get into fights with me and my mother would send me to my room, forgetting I was up there alone for hours.

After we moved, I gradually became less social. I enjoyed being alone in my room rather than spending time outside where the fights would happen. I know that we've had more good times than bad, but sometimes I do feel like the bad outway the good. I'm always worrying about what I say and what she says. I constantly feel depressed and worthless.

---The reason I am asking is because I recently read an article about a study done on siblings of children with ADHD. They had said that a lot of them had clinical depression under the circumstances with their sibling with autism.