Abstract; A child’s intellectual disability affects the family in general and siblings in particular. This hinders the identification process within the sibling group, which is often subject to stigmatization by those around them. It is within this context that this article explores the subjective experience of Cameroonian siblings confronted with the intellectual disability of one of their members in Cameroon. The study is based on a fundamentally qualitative clinical method, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews with three sibling groups, each including one member with an intellectual disability. These data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The results show that the siblings’ subjective experience of intellectual disability is characterized by a mixed awareness of the disability, feelings of rejection and stigmatization, feelings of pain, sadness, and tolerance, as well as a sense of sibling unity and complicity. These findings can be used to support siblings of children with disabilities in general, and those with intellectual disabilities in particular.
Donfack et al. (Mon,) studied this question.