Is it normal i am sad my family doesn't take anyone else seriously?

I love my family, but lately I realized they don't take me seriously either. I'm 'the funny one' and also the youngest. I know when to be serious and when to be funny, but it's like they feel like they have to be funny with me all the time. One brother is in school for some sort of faceless business management degree. My sister-in-law thinks she's all hot shit since she gets to tell everyone, "Oh, yeah, my husband is in Rio for business school this week." And everyone cares! They want to know how everything went when he came back. My brother in law is some sort of president of some branch of Evans and Sutherland. Ohhh, big wig everyone cares. Another brother is in pharmaceutical sales and works with doctors and travels. Even my black sheep loser druggie sister started to get taken seriously when she met a rich guy and went to school.
When I announced I was going to school for geology, my mom literally laughed and said "Oh sure, YOU wanting to go to school. You hated school. You barely graduated." My brother was sitting there when she said that and said, "Well, Mom, non of us like school remember? Almost every kid ALMOST doesn't graduate. When you mature more, work a crappy job you realize how important school really is. Sometimes it takes a few years for some to figure out what they want do for a living, school is interesting and you want to learn." Of course she agreed with him. I know they don't mean to hurt my feelings, they're just tyring to make light of my situration. I'm just losing my sense of humor because I need to be more serious so I think I'm having a hard time translating humor and turning into kind of an angry, frustrated person.

I also think a part of it is I'm the youngest of 9 (don't worry 7 adopted my mom isn't like that LOL). I have a pretty traditional family. All the girls are married and have at least 3 kids now. I'm 26, been married for 6 years, no kids yet and have LOTS of hobbies. I hike, hunt, ride sportbikes, fish, and my husband and I love to keep busy with all our hobbies and hanging out with each other. I think all my hobbies and no kids to them look like I'm unsettled, everywhere, not interested or unable to focus on one thing. Since my husband and I make good money together I think some family members think that's the reason we should have kids since we'd be able to support them. We've been trying for 6 years and I couldn't conceive, so we decided to turn our time with no kids into a time to have fun and keep my mind off our difficulty.

Blah blah blah.....sorry...I know it's not about me. I'm sorry you feel that way. It's not fun when your family thinks its ALWAYS fun.

This is the sad but unfortunate reality of the state of family life now. It is sad but true that the quality of communication within families is deteriorating.

Humor and sarcasm are often used as defense mechanisms when they are used in situations that do not call for them at all. It sounds as if your family is in denial of their problems and trying to shoot you down with humor in order to avoid reality.

I would suggest that you go to therapy, however, I believe that your emotional numbness is a reaction to the ordeals that you have faced in your family and the way that they make you feel as if your emotions are not valid.

Also, in high school, people are fucking stupid. I am sorry to say that unless you completely change out the kind of people you hang around, you will get the same results for the same dealings with the same people.

I hope the best for you, it is not easy growing up in a dysfunctional family and I hope you do realize that there are better people out there.