Does everyone have a relative who seems to be a Drama Queen?

Oh that would be me! No, it’s not but I’m pretty sure some of my family would accuse me of this. I think some people are more demonstrative and more emotional than others. Then there are those people who have to be the centre of attention and everything is about them.

If your sister is a senior, she is never going to grow out of it.

I don’t. So the answer to your question, which is objectively true, is no. Everyone does not have a relative who seems to be a drama queen.

My mom’s like that. She especially loved playing guilt trips on me, and whatever guy she was going out with. Made me feel small and scared, although had I understood what she was doing at the time, I would have told her to eat my ass.
Did she ever grow out of it? I don’t know, as the last time I saw her, I was 15. I’m 31 now. Fuck it lol.

Now this isn’t the sole reason I never got back in touch with her, but it sure didn’t help the whole thing, either.

Sure do, granny used to work on the stage, there’s nothing she couldn’t do with a mop & a bucket of bleach.

@ucme your granny is Carol Burnett?!?!?!?!!?

Alas not, her name…Fanny Pack, she carried herself with grace, Auntie Grace, they were acrobats in their spare time.

I don’t think I do. Maybe that means I’m the drama queen in my family!

Fluther Rules of Family No. 132: If you don’t think there is a “drama queen” in your family, it’s probably you.

Or… In my case, there is more than one.

My aunt, my grandmother, my mother, my cousin. Get ‘em in a room together and it’s a contest to see who’s life is more dramatic.

On my wife’s side, there’s also a few (my niece and sister-in-law), but my mother-in-law is the high water mark. She’ll literally wring her hands and cry about, “Why life is so hard?” and she “has no one” and “Why does god do this to me?!” to pretty much anyone who will listen.

It’s embarrassing because everyone knows she has a nice house, good tenants, is surrounded by family that loves her and helps her out — she just loves the attention.

I wouldn’t say we have drama queens. We do have some pretty angry relatives who are so on edge they, from everyone else’s perspective, seem “overly sensitive.” But, I kind of hate that term, because it is real hurt and sadness for them. They seem to be very controlling, I find them a little exhausting, frustrating, and I hate to say unrealistic, but I have empathy for them at the same time.

We don’t have any drama queens at all. We’re all on a pretty level keel. And @cookieman it’s not me. We are all pretty good at supporting each other.

Oh yes! Sister. From a calm 0 to 190 mph in literally 2 screaming seconds. Half the time you don’t even know what the hell she’s talking about.

There are at least two in my family!

No, but…I have dumped 2 old friends in the last 3 years because of their emotional instability and drama and hypersensitivities and manipulative behaviors.
Most people that have these issues are suffering from a some degree of personality disorder and the odds of them changing, especially if they are middle aged, are about the same as being struck by lightening while simultaneously being attacked by a mountain lion. lol

Dump ‘em and run!

Our family seems to be understated rather than overly dramatic. Before my mother died, she would have been the contender, but only for the first ten minutes after she arrived at a family function. Then she calmed down.

It was some sort of first-night jitters, I think.

@Addarondackwannabe: Oh I know. I was just teasing @augustlan whose answer was above mine.

I’m sure there’s lots of level-headed, supportive families out there. Just not mine dammit. ;^)

One of my cousins, and her family, belong to some out-lying fringey Christian sect. They believe in the end times and were sorely disappointed when the fellow in the sky didn’t sweep them up into heaven as the year switched to 2000. They were also in complete shock when Sky Daddy (I think this is ETpro’s term, which I have adopted) didn’t pick them up in September and December of last year. She’s always asking us to pray for her on Facebook. Most of the time, she won’t tell us what we’re supposed to be praying for, so I’m always guessing. Did her daughter run away again? Did another one of her dogs get stolen out of her back yard? Is she getting another (extremely sinful in the eyes of Sky Daddy) divorce? Did her son knock up another girl? Is her 16 year old daughter pregnant? All of these things actually did happen to her in the last 2 years. But it makes me wonder, if you spend your entire time convincing your kids that they won’t live to adulthood (except in heaven) what do you expect?

This is one somewhat isolated “family unit” in our big family. Everyone else is pretty much on an even keel. Except for one cousin who is an Obama-hating gun nut, but even she’s not as wacky as the one described above, and she’s never asked us to pray for her.

@cookieman I know. I was just kidding around as well. Although I am blessed with a great family.

Yea, my brother was a drama king..
Thankfully he seems to have grown out of it.

My brother and I both display drama king tendencies from time to time about medical issues. I think we inherited that from our dad, who could make the teeniest boo-boo sound fatal.

No Drama Queens in my family, not that I’ve ever noticed.