List of Questions
*What should we know about you?
* What should we know about your sib?
* Describe yourself to someone who can’t see you.
* How would you describe your relationship with your sib?
* Do you like hanging out with your sib? What do you do?
* How do your friends describe you?
* What do you want people to know about your sib?
* Do you think your sib knows he/she has a disability? (If so, what does that mean to him/lher?)
* Got any good stories about your sib?
* Is your outlook on life different from your friends’ outlook on life? How?
* Do you think being a sib has affected your personality? How?
* What makes you proud of your sib?
* When you were younger, did you ever wish you had a disability so your parents would pay more attention to you?
* Do your friends get along with your sib? Do you tend to pick friends who are likely to get along with your sib?
* What do you tell your friends about your sib’s disability? Do they ever ask questions?
* What is your pet peeve?
* What item must you have with you all the time?
* Can you imagine what it would be like if your sibling didn’t have a disability?
* Does your sib ever frustrate you? How?
* What are some advantages - good parts - of having a sibling with a disability?
* What are some disadvantages - not so good parts - of having a sibling with special needs?
* Describe a perfect day.
* If you could change just one thing about your sib (or your sib’s disability), what would it be?
* What do you see for your sibling’s future? And what part do you think you’ll play in that future?
* What annoys you the most about how people treat your sib?
* Do your parents include you in discussions about your sib? How do you feel about that? * Has your sib ever embarrassed you?
* Do you know lots of other sibs and if so, how do you know them?
* How is your sib treated by kids in your community?
* What career choices sound good right now?
* Something you said you’d never do but did anyway:
* What is the hardest thing to do as a sibling?
* Sweetest thing someone has done for (or said to) you:
* Is there something about your sib that just makes you smile?
* Anything about your sib that just pisses you off?
* What confuses you the most about the opposite sex?
* How do the people at your school church/after-school group treat your sibling?
* What are some words or phrases you use the most?
* Has something ever happened to your sib that scared you?
* Ever feel invisible?
* If you could meet one persons dead or alive who would it be?
* If you had a choice, would you get rid of all the disabilities in the world - or just the negative reactions to them?
* Most embarrassing moment:
* What’s the best advice you’ve given or been given?
* Where you see yourself in 10 years:
* What life lesson have you learned from being a sib?
* Happiest moment:
*If you had just one day when your sibling didn’t have a disability, what would you choose to do on that day?
*What’s the toughest thing about being a sib?
* What’s the weirdest question you’ve ever been asked about your sib?
*If you had one wish for your brother or sister, what would it be?
* What’s the one question we should have asked but didn’t? (And what’s the answer?)
* Leave us with a good quote - or lyric:
