If you have "half" or "step" siblings, how do you refer to them?

In My Humble Opinion
41

So, if I’m reading this correctly. . .

Three children, from the same mother, over a span of 35 years? While mathematically possible, it definitely pushes the limits of credibility.

42

Looks like I wrote it incorrectly… 1st child, 2nd child 10 years later and third child 25 years* after the first.*.

43

I have two half brothers, both born before me and my sisters. #1 I only found out about as an adult, and met a few times but had no real relationship with him. He is since deceased and I have had no contact with his immediate family.

#2 I have never met and, since my father gave up parental rights to him so that his mother’s new husband could adopt him, I don’t think I will ever be able to trace him. I would like to, though.

As a consequence, I have little or no reason to refer to either of them.

At one point I technically had two stepsisters and a stepbrother, but I had nothing to do with them. Since my father divorced their mother, I consider the whole episode done and buried. I have no reason to reference them at all. I doubt I could recognize them in a line up.

44

I have 3 sisters and 1 brother with a different father. They are my brother and sisters period.

45

I worked with a guy who’s half-sister married his half-brother… I don’t know how they introduced themselves, but I’m fairly sure it wasn’t “sister/brother” or “step sister/brother”…

46

I often state that I am an only child with 3 brothers - one of each kind. Half, step and full.

I am the youngest, but they aren’t so much older than me (7-14 years) that the age difference is the only reason that I consider myself an only child. Between custody agreements, a virtual run away and an out of state move, I didn’t live with any of my siblings for more than a total of 5 years out of 18 years. In fact, when my full brother came to work on my house a few years ago, the 10 days he spent at my house was the longest period of time that I shared a house with him since I was 12. (no need to discuss that he has moved in with me and I’ve now spent way more time with him than I ever did in the prior 36+ years)

47

I have three stepsisters and a stepbrother. When my dad married their mom, I was 15 living with my mother and they were adults except the youngest who was in college. So I never lived with them. They were “the kids of that woman who my dad married” and have always been and will ever be step-siblings.