lesley
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Post by lesley on Mar 27, 2016 0:32:20 GMT
I have a friend with identical twin daughters, who used to sneak them separately into hotel rooms! She also has an older son, and in the UK it can be difficult to find family rooms that will sleep more than four people. So she would leave one of the girls in the car and go in with her son, one twin, and her husband. Once they were checked in, she would go back out to the car for their bags, and bring the other twin in with her. She was always really embarrassed, but they usually couldn't afford two separate hotel rooms, so it was the most obvious way around the problem!
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 27, 2016 0:45:23 GMT
I have a good friend who had identical twin girls. They went to preschool with my ds and at the time my friend's little boy (younger than the girls and my ds) was battling a brain tumor so I spent a lot of time with these girls as I tried to help out their mom. I collected all sorts of odd things people said. Two that I remember very well: 1. My friend separated the girls in their last year of preschool to give the less assertive girl a chance to make her own way out from under the thumb of her domineering sister (lol). My ds and one girl were in the downstairs class, and the other girl was upstairs. Usually I picked up the two downstairs and then we'd all walk upstairs to get the other girl, and then we'd go out that door up there. But one day I did it in reverse, picked up upstairs girl first. When we got downstairs another mother who was waiting there said, in a very loud voice, "Oh my God, there are TWO of them!" um... 2. I took the kids to McDonald's one day and some woman said to me "oh, are they twins?" oy.. These girls were two peas in a pod identical. I could tell them apart but only because I was with them every day, and only if I was looking at them straight in their face or touching their hair (different texture despite how it looked alike). I felt like saying "oh no they're not twins, I just happen to have a daughter who looks just like my neighbor's girl. Isn't that funny?" But, I didn't say that, I just said "yes they are." sheesh...
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Post by theshyone on Mar 27, 2016 1:00:03 GMT
My son went to daycare with identical twin girls when they were all two. There were ten two year olds in the room. Skye and skylar were dressed alike, looked alike, acted alike. I could not tell them apart, the daycare workers often couldn't tell them apart. But if you asked any of the two year olds they could. It always mystified me.
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Post by Layce on Mar 27, 2016 1:09:41 GMT
That's interesting about your identical triplets.. And that silly elevator doctor eggs can split multiple times and that's how you end up with multiples! My twin sis and I are fraternal, it's very obvious. Yet we've been asked many times if we're identical. We started saying we are fraternity twins, or sorority, whatever. I think identical twins have more fun. Here's the three-way, I think: Fraternal twins = 2 separate eggs fertilized by two separate (obviously) sperm. Mirror image = 1 egg splits then each egg is fertilized. Separately. Identical = 1 egg splits *after* being fertilized. Sperm do not split. (Do they?)
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2016 1:19:02 GMT
Then there was the time someone asked me in the grocery store if they were both mine, then if they had the same father! I got that with my daughter. She had very dark hair when she was born and has the most beautiful blue eyes that change color and perfect eyelashes! Nothing like her brother who is a clone of his dad.
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Post by lucyg on Mar 27, 2016 1:27:45 GMT
That's interesting about your identical triplets.. And that silly elevator doctor eggs can split multiple times and that's how you end up with multiples! My twin sis and I are fraternal, it's very obvious. Yet we've been asked many times if we're identical. We started saying we are fraternity twins, or sorority, whatever. I think identical twins have more fun. Here's the three-way, I think: Fraternal twins = 2 separate eggs fertilized by two separate (obviously) sperm. Mirror image = 1 egg splits then each egg is fertilized. Separately.Identical = 1 egg splits *after* being fertilized. Sperm do not split. (Do they?) Okay, the bolded part isn't right. Mirror image twins are a subset of identical twins. They come from one fertilized egg that splits. I don't remember what happens to make them different from regular identical twins. But it isn't different sperm.
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Post by Outspoken on Mar 27, 2016 1:31:52 GMT
My girls are mirror-image twins! They aren't too difficult to tell apart these days because one is very girly and has long hair and the other is tomboyish and has short hair. What's funny is that oldest DD and the girly twin sometimes get asked if the two of them are twins. The question I get asked most often is "do twins run in your family?" But identical twins aren't genetic, they are mutant freaks of nature. I get tired of explaining that one. I also had a lady chase me down in the rain in a parking lot once when they were infants because she wanted to see them (they were well covered in their stroller.) I told her no. I am the mother of b/g twins. We are all too often asked if they are identical. I told my son that next time someone ask to unzip his pants, look down and go " NOPE"! Of course, he was mortified. They are 15 now and go to different high schools. However, they look so similar that both of them have had people come up to them and ask if they were related. Its amazing to to me how many people don't know, and then don't believe, that identical multiples are not genetic. My twins are the first set of surviving twins in my family in many years!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 1:32:59 GMT
My sister-in-law is a mirror image twin (that's an even more rare type of identical twin, for those who aren't familiar) and she and her sister look very much alike. My sisters are mirror image twins as well! I've never known another set. My sisters are even opposite handed (one right and one left). They look so much alike now that it can be difficult to tell them apart. Drives me nuts! When they visit each other, they enjoy going out and confusing people, even at 56! Our 13 year old boys are the same. One's left handed, the other right. One has his crown on the right side of his head, the other on the left. I've had a few teachers almost glad if one the boys has a bruise or scratch because they have an easier time telling them apart, lol. We only ever got the usual, "oh how cute, twins!"
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Post by jenis40 on Mar 27, 2016 2:53:37 GMT
I didn't know that twins running in families wasn't genetic. My MIL was an identical twin who had the aforementioned mirror image twins. My husband also has fraternal twin granddaughters so that's three sets of twins in four generations of immediate family.
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Post by destined2bmom on Mar 27, 2016 2:54:28 GMT
Even though my DH is a fraternal twin, I have no stories regarding him.
But the funniest identical twin story that I have ever experienced was when my oldest was in first grade. There are a set of identical twin girls in his grade. So identical that noone except the mom could tell them apart. They were in different classrooms with different teachers.
So one day after school, the teacher lets the kids out, but they have to stand and wait with her until a parent or adult guardian picks them up. The twin from the other class comes and tells the twin that they have to go. They start panicking because the teacher is making them wait for mom.
Once the mom arrived, the teacher says "T was getting upset because she wanted to leave and usually she is so good for me." The mom looked confused, looked at the twin, looked at the other twin and says "But that's not T, that is K". The teacher was shocked and laughingly said "Wow, are you kidding me, are you sure?" The mom said, "I am positive that is K". The girls knew their mom was really mad when she found out.
The little stinkers thought it would be funny to see what being in the other one's classroom would be like. I wondered what they would be like when they were dating teenagers.
The teachers and parents still laugh about it to this day.
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Post by bonster on Mar 27, 2016 3:00:10 GMT
I have boy/girl twins who are ten. My daughter is about five inches taller than her brother. They look NOTHING alike. One blond, one dark. It's astonishing how many people have asked me if they are identical twins. When they were about two I had them in the stroller at the school and another mom insisted that they had to be identical. I told her they weren't. She still insisted that they must be. I finally said "well one is a girl and one is a boy". She laughed and said "oh I know that....but besides THAT are they identical?"
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Post by jemali on Mar 27, 2016 3:12:32 GMT
I have a friend with twin boys. She would go shopping and people would ask if they were twins. She told them "no, they are triplets but I leave the ugly one at home"
There was a family in my area that had IVF and they had three embryos implanted. They went to a doctor appointment and there were 4 heartbeats! One of the embryos had split. So they had quadruplets and two of them were twins.
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Post by cindytred on Mar 27, 2016 3:29:22 GMT
Years ago at playgroup I met a woman with twin daughters. They were fraternal - didn't look anything alike. The first thing I said to the mom was "Are they twins?" "Wow! One has such curly hair and the other one has straight hair."
We got to be good friends and hung out together quite a bit. EVERYWHERE we went people would say, "Are they twins?" "Wow! One has such curly hair and the other one has straight hair." I would roll my eyes to my friend because it got to be ridiculous to have the same conversation over and over again. But it was embarrassing because I knew I had said it too.
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Post by mcscrapper on Mar 27, 2016 3:45:20 GMT
My dad is a twin and my grandmother would tell me some pretty crazy stories about them growing up. One time she was registering the boys for school (they were Air Force and moved a lot) and the woman at the school said, "how can they be twins? They don't look anything alike." To me, they do look a lot alike but I could always tell them apart even in their baby pictures.
I so wish I had twins. We have so many in our family everyone was surprised I didn't have twins. I would have had a BLAST!
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Post by ntsf on Mar 27, 2016 3:56:18 GMT
my fraternal twin girls were in the same classes in early elementary. the poetry teacher worked in that classroom for 5 months and didn't realize they were sisters...let alone twins.
the worst was at their first halloween..at 9 months.. people would actually ask me which was the evil twin....
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Post by ntsf on Mar 27, 2016 3:56:28 GMT
my fraternal twin girls were in the same classes in early elementary. the poetry teacher worked in that classroom for 5 months and didn't realize they were sisters...let alone twins.
the worst was at their first halloween..at 9 months.. people would actually ask me which was the evil twin....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 4:01:34 GMT
My great grandmother had twins, then miscarried my grandmother miscarried twins, my twin readsorbed , my son's did too. My daughter's other 3 did too. ( 6 kids under the age of 5 would have mind numbing)
I guess my family is not good at sharing a womb.
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Post by Drew on Mar 27, 2016 4:07:22 GMT
My girls look identical but they're 2 years apart. I can't tell you how many times people have asked if they're twins and I or they say no, then they say, "Are you sure?" Lol, I remember two births two years apart I swear!
I posted a pic of them on fb with their hair up and wearing the same shirt to see who could tell them apart. No one could.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Mar 27, 2016 4:09:39 GMT
My friend adopted 2 children at the same time but not biologically related to each other, and their ages were 4 months apart. People were always asking her if they were twins, and at first, she would reply that they were 4 months apart and how that happened. But she did get tired of explaining, mostly because people either don't listen anyway or just decide that can't be so. So after a while, she just stated, no they are 4 months apart and just leave it at that and let people wonder.
They were 18 months and 22 months old when she adopted them.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Mar 27, 2016 4:21:19 GMT
Well, I have a twin story and I'm not even a twin! I have a half-sister that is 7 years older and a full-sister 4 years, 4 months younger. Funny thing is, I look enough like my half-sister that if we were closer in age, people might have thought we were twins. When I was in the fourth grade, my best friend asked me when I had that picture made, the picture was of my older half-sister when SHE was in the fourth grade! But back to the twin part. I have blue eyes, wear glasses, have wavy light brown hair and my younger sister had very dark brown eyes and very frizzy hair and NO glasses. And our body type is different, I'm short waisted, long legs and she had shorter legs and long body. And her knees started where mine ended. When I was 17 and she was 13, she was still a few inches shorter than me. Our faces looked nothing alike, not even same face shape and our voices were nothing alike. Several times that year, we were stopped and asked if we were twins. At least THREE times. I vividly remember the first time it happened, we were getting off an elevator. We were stunned, turned around and looked at one another. I said no, I'm four years older. I looked young for my age and she looked older for hers but we weren't the same height and looked nothing alike. It happened at least 3 more times that year and no one in the family could figure out why people might think we were twins! Then when I was 20 and she was 16, ladies at the library branch that was next to my parking lot at work and two stores we both frequented but NOT together kept thinking that we were one another. My sister would sometimes stay in town with me at my apartment and while I was at work, go to the library and go wandering around the shops in downtown. I'd go into the library and they'd say I should have been there for some event that morning. I'd say, but I was at work and they'd say oops, thought you were your younger sister and the same for the stores. We finally decided one Saturday when she was staying with me to go to all three places and say hi so they could see us together. Just so you understand, we were good natured about it, not snarky. Once they saw us together, they couldn't understand why they thought we were one another. Apparently, there was something undefinable that was similar about us. Whatever it was, later in life people didn't even realize we were related, much less sisters. There were people that knew both of us well and were shocked to find out we were sisters.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 27, 2016 4:57:44 GMT
I dated an mirror image twin. When I met them both I was taken aback as there were no other twin experiences like this. Then Bruce hit on me which was fine. We dated but I always felt like Bryan was with us, too. Bryan would look out for me when Bruce wasn't around. We only had one class together. It was like dating two guys at once.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2016 5:06:53 GMT
So I knew twins, they would go to dinner when it was all you could eat. The first one would eat, then go to the bathroom. The other would sneak in (the first would leave when his brother took his place)
They would do buffets , but that was trickier.
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Post by jameynz on Mar 27, 2016 6:56:54 GMT
True Story! Both my DH and I thought it was funny, not 100% correct, but still funny....
There is a teacher at school who is an identical twin. They are both teachers, both coach hockey, at totally different schools. My DS played hockey - and we often went to an inter-school tournament - where both twins entered their teams.
My DD was 10years old at the time.
We had a conversation in the car - me, DH and DD DD: when I go to this school, I will know some of the teachers - Wes and Mrs T (the twin) Me: yeah, but you can't call Wes by his name - he will be Mr H DD: Mrs T is a lesbian isn't she... Me: No! DH: No! DD: Oh, that's right, she's a twin - I always get those two mixed up.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Mar 27, 2016 7:15:51 GMT
I didn't know that twins running in families wasn't genetic. My MIL was an identical twin who had the aforementioned mirror image twins. My husband also has fraternal twin granddaughters so that's three sets of twins in four generations of immediate family. Fraternal twins are genetic. Identical are not. Fraternal are multiple eggs fertilized at once (and therefore a genetic occurrence) while identical twins are a single egg that split after fertilization, for whatever reason.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 27, 2016 7:31:50 GMT
To answer a question upthread, mirror twins are identicals who split later in development. Even later and they are conjoined.
My grandsons are fraternal. Everywhere they go, people volunteer the information that they ,"Can't be twins, they have different color eyes".
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Post by anniefb on Mar 27, 2016 8:13:41 GMT
My favorite was the time someone asked if I dyed dd's hair so I could tell them apart. LOL!
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Post by lesserknownpea on Mar 27, 2016 9:04:30 GMT
One more thing: there is a third category, according to scientists. Half fraternal, half identical. When an egg splits and each new egg is fertilized by a separate sperm. Twins are fascinating, I understand why scientists want to research them.
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Post by Patter on Mar 27, 2016 10:44:35 GMT
I didn't know that twins running in families wasn't genetic. My MIL was an identical twin who had the aforementioned mirror image twins. My husband also has fraternal twin granddaughters so that's three sets of twins in four generations of immediate family. Fraternal twins are genetic. Identical are not. Fraternal are multiple eggs fertilized at once (and therefore a genetic occurrence) while identical twins are a single egg that split after fertilization, for whatever reason. Okay, here is what my OB and Perinatologist told me. First when I was concerned about getting pregnant with multiples, she said not to worry about it because all of the occurences in my family were identical BUT it was EVERY generation. She said it wouldn't happen to me. Then when I got pregnant with the triplets, I asked "How did this happen then?" She said "Oh it's genetic." Then my sister ended up having fraternal twins. I am the only one with triplets; everyone else in the family has twins.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Mar 27, 2016 11:11:54 GMT
As a Nana to two year old fraternal twins I find this a fascinating read! I do believe they run in families. My grandfather was a twin, my aunt had twins and now my son (all fraternal).
My grand twins (boy/girl) look so different - boy (tall, chunky, straight thin hair) and girl (petite, lots of curly hair), he seldom talks while she is a chatterbox... They are definitely each their own person!
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Post by woodysbetty on Mar 27, 2016 11:45:46 GMT
My friend's father is a twin. A fraternal twin whose "other half" is a woman. Years ago, during a family gathering, my friend's MIL look at the two of them and asks, "So, are you identical?" Despite the stunned silence in the room, MIL persisted with her question. yes, with the exception that he has a penis and I don't Okay - that gave me a coffee out of the nose laugh!! Hysterical!
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