There are two types of only children in this world: those who wished desperately for a sibling to play with, grow up with and even fight with; and those who accepted the negatives along with the perks and never took a single second of only-childness for granted. Whichever type of only child you were, there's a few things that we can all relate to.

1. Your parents are actually obsessed with you.

Being an only child means that your parents only have to focus all of their attention on you. This can be a blessing and a curse. Pro: one kid to get Christmas presents for. Con: one kid to imprison keep out of trouble. Nothing sends fear through you like realizing you're going to be late for curfew because you know your parents will be waiting up for you.

2. Your house is a shrine dedicated to you.

Your parents' lives are centered around you, and this includes the decor of their house. The walls are lined with your yearbook and sporting pictures from throughout the years and any and all art work you've ever created is prominently displayed in public areas. Your senior pictures have been framed and have a whole wall dedicated to them with accent lighting.

3. Your cousins become your siblings and you love them as such.

Growing up without siblings could get pretty boring. No one was there to play tag or board games with and no one could truly understand when you vented about your parents. If you were #blessed enough to live near your cousins, you pretty much adopted them into your immediate family. You fought like siblings, basically lived at each others houses and they hold starring roles in all of your home videos. Sometimes you forget you aren't actual siblings.

4. Family vacations = lonely

It can be easy to forget that you're an only child sometimes when you have your cousins or friends over to your house all the time, but going on vacation is a whole other story. Suddenly it's just you and your parents in a new place. Yeah, it's nice that you don't have to compete when deciding where to go on vacation, but there's no one your age to enjoy it with when you get there. Not saying family vacays aren't awesome, but they'd be a little more awesome with siblings.

5. You've been to Disney World

Yeah, you were lonely, but you were lonely in Disney World. Shut up.

6. You identify with Anna's struggles of entertaining herself

Reading, writing, solitaire, knitting: just a few examples of your past times. Common quality of these activities: you can do them by yourself. You most likely picked these hobbies up once you realized that you can't play Monopoly with one person. At least Anna had a sister to ignore her, am I right?

7. You matured quickly because you hung out with old people all the time.

Since you had no one your own age to hang out with once you left school, you more than likely were with your parents and other adults for a majority of your time growing up. This can harvest some strange habits for anyone under the age of 30 (not saying 30 is old but you know... old). Personally, I knew how to knit, crochet and needlepoint by the time I was a freshman in high school. I get a strange sense of joy from garage sales, flee markets and thrift stores and organizing every part of my life is my favorite thing in the whole world. I'm basically an 80 year old woman.

8. You are independent.

You are just fine on your own. No matter how much your parents worry about you being away at college and making your own decisions, you are very responsible for yourself. True, you may have maxed out your credit card once or twice or five times when you first got to college because what the heck is a budget? But you always got yourself out of sticky situations, and have managed not to fail out of school or be living on the streets.

9. You're a bit spoiled.

Don't fight me on this. I know all only children go through that stage of denial where they think they aren't spoiled. News flash: you are. My friends used to tell me I had "only child syndrome" when I would get a little whiny about not getting my way and this is the best way to explain it. It's basically a disease: it's in our DNA to expect to get our way. No one can blame us because it's not our fault... Or so we tell ourselves.

10. The moment you realize your romantic interest is an only child, too.

You expect me to marry an only child and put my future kids at risk of being an only child, too? Don't only children run in the family? No? Well I'm not going to risk it. Plus can you imagine extended family holidays? It'd be normal family dinner plus the grandparents. Count me out. Also, I hear only children are brats.

11. You were kind of socially awkward around people your own age growing up.

Either you were too eager for friends or you didn't know how to make conversation with anyone under the age of 30. I was a prime example of an over-eager only child. I needed friends. My main tactic included going up to kids in the grocery store and asking them straight out: "Do you want to be my friend?". It worked out as well as you could expect (not the greatest).

12. You love attention.

This is like the spoiled thing. Don't deny it. it's in your nature! Growing up with constant attention, it's in our nature to crave the lime light.

13. You're close with your parents.

Not to say that you haven't had your fair share of fights. You've probably had more fights with your parents than your friends with siblings, honestly. But, growing up you had two options when it came to friends in your house: mom and dad. They were the ones you went to for everything and now that you're in college, you're either in regular phone contact with them or they come to visit often.

14. You're also super close with your best friends.

I know I said that you went to your parents for everything, but let's face it: mom and dad don't want to hear about some of your problems. So your overflow of parent-inappropriate problems lands in your best friends lap. A best friend is essential for an only child because your best friend won't ground you when you tell them about what really happened at that party that one time.

15. You secretly love being an only child.

Whether you admit it or not, we all love being only children. We may go through a time where we feel like we missed out on a normal family and may have begged for a sibling, but we wouldn't change our family for anything. Most parents put in so much time, money and work obsessing over giving their kids the best life that they can have. Our parents only had to do it once, so we got everything they could have given us. Whether you wished for a sibling or not, we can all agree on this: being an only child was the best thing that could have happened to us.