ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature and affects of a being a long-distance sibling carer relationship using the socio-spatial conceptual framework introduced by Dear and Wolch. It explores the spatiality of being an adult sibling carer of adult sisters and brothers with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). This first pass through sibling long-distance caring has several intentions to redress people's invisibility in informal caring. The chapter begins to remedy the relative lack of subdisciplinary writing about the practice of caring, especially as practiced by long-distance carers. Social geographical concepts are best suited to direct an investigation of the spatiality of people's long-distance caring relationships with their siblings. The chapter reveals more about who we are because of people's distance from their siblings. It discovers how people's long-distance caring relationships with their sisters and brothers transcend space and how this durable spatial relationship affects them.
