Admit it. There are times when you really just want to choke them.

Sometimes they decide to shoot your room up with a Nerf gun- or they decide to tell all their friends that you threw up while you were sick in such great detail that one of said friends comes and finds you and asks you about it. Great times.

If your younger sibling happens to be much younger than you, luck is on your side. You get moments of cuteness that cause all your friends to ooh and aah in envy the next day at school. When they are only a year or two younger, it’s just awkward.

Copycatting is a serious problem. If they’re a toddler pretending to type or do homework, it’s adorable. When they decide they want to be just like you when they grow up, it becomes Fear Factor: Sibling Edition. You start getting crazy nightmares.

“You took AP Euro. I’ll take AP Euro. You want to be a doctor. I want to be a doctor. You ate a worm once as a small child. Let me eat this one.”

Don’t eat the worm, kids. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.