I feel like I'm the only one going through this, but does anyone who's the youngest child feel like they're more mature than anyone in the family? Whenever someone has problems, they come to me. If my mother needs something from my older brother, I need to ask him instead. If there's an argument or disagreement in the family, I'm always the one who has to mend it. If my mother can not afford something, I'm always the one who offers despite my older brother making more money than me.
I just feel like the only time I get to be myself and not have to worry is when my brother and mother are working on the same day, which is only one day for 7 hours. I love my family, I really do, but the constant having to be the mature one in the family is just tiring. It has been like this since I was 13, and now I'm 22, and I am having the realisation that I feel as if I'm the parent in the family and it is just hitting me hard.
Am I selfish for feeling this way?