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If you are lucky (or cursed!) enough, you had the pleasure (or pain!) of growing up with a sibling or two. Or a bunch of them.

The truth is, anyone who has a brother or sister, older or younger, has stories to tell. And Jimmy Fallon’s new hashtag challenge proved to be a perfect opportunity to spill some hilariously relatable family tea.

“Tweet out your funniest weird sibling stories. #MySiblingsWeird,” Fallon announced, adding a memory of his own to the table: “My friend’s brother would shove bits of french fries up his nose and ‘shoot’ them at targets on the table.”

And people on Twitter had more weird sibling stories that Fallon had probably asked for. Below are the funniest ones!

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In Bored Panda’s previous interview with Helen Marlo, a licensed clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst, certified through the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, we found that sibling relationships exert a powerful influence on one’s life and development.

Helen explained that the presence or absence of siblings is significant in shaping one’s experience, although one is not necessarily better or worse. “They are different. While we know siblings are influential, the effect of growing up with a sibling is not linear because the sibling relationship is complex. Some siblings become best friends while others are arch enemies.”

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Moreover, there is an abundance of findings that generalize information about siblings, but Helen warns that it can be misleading. “For example, findings on the influence of birth order or recent research asserting that sibling relationships are more important than parent relationships. Often, these findings do not also acknowledge the influence of other important variables, including psychological, family, systemic, developmental, environmental, and cultural factors that mediate the influence of the sibling relationship.”

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Interestingly, Helen argues that if we take an example of sibling conflict, we see that it is not necessarily negative. “Parental warmth during sibling conflict, for example, influences if the sibling conflict leads to healthy rather than divisive sibling relationships. It can help prepare one to develop problem-solving and negotiation skills,” she explained.

So while generalizations do not fit many sibling relationships, the psychoanalyst confirms that growing up with siblings is generally accompanied by having a stronger sense of being part of a family and with feeling less alienated and alone.

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Helen explained that siblings have a daily influence on our lives. “Therefore, they can be associated with many strong emotional memories, including sharing together in the traditions, joys, secrets, and challenges in family life. Siblings encounter the same experiences but they experience them in their own unique way and this can be sources of challenge and connection,” she said some time ago.