We no longer talk to each other, he refused to test for covid and wear a mask to come see my newborn at the peak of covid infections, after receiving multiple audio messages of just verbal abuse I cut ties. I lost a lot of friends we had in common but I’m good now.

Older sister, younger sister, younger brother.

My younger brother is a sociopath; I cut him out of my life entirely in 2004 or so, and if he ever managed to track me down and show up on my doorstep, I’d need to find a way to hide the body. He hurts everyone around him.

My older sister is smart, but batshit crazy. She’s deeply religious, but also believes in bullshit like iridology, hoeopathy, chiropratic care (at the age of 50-ish, she just started school for that nonsense), essential oils, and so on. We have pretty much nothing in common aside from language at this point.

My younger sister is… Just kinda there. Again, not a lot in common. She’s a decent person, but we were never all that close as kids, and that’s deepened as I’ve been older and now live 1500 miles away from everyone else.

I’m also autistic; family connections don’t have an inherent value to me. I don’t believe in blood meaning more than anything else, or that you do anything for your family; I choose to have that kind of relationship by choice, not due to an accident of birth.

about 30 meters. She lives right up the street

I’m the oldest of three and we’re tight as could be. We hop online with our additional brother from another mother at least once a week, sometimes twice if we have time. It started because my best friend (mentioned earlier) was one of the few individuals on this planet with a gamecube AND all 4 GBA link cables. So he would come over all the time while we were still in highschool and my younger bros would join for FF: Crystal Chronicles or Zelda Four Swords. Later it became Smash Bros or Mario Party and whatever other coop game we could find. As we each moved out, and some away from our home city, we picked an established day of the week to be our online boiz day so we’d never lose contact. It’s always a joyous occasion when we can fly everyone back into town and hang out in-person.

I have a younger brother and I’m not close to him as much as I want to be which is mostly my fault. I’m very bad when it comes to social stuff.

My siblings and I are pretty close. I’m not in the habit of antagonizing my housemates, so I can smooth things out in the rare cases there’s any friction.