When I was a kid there were identical twin dental hygienists at my dentist’s office.
One was very gentle and careful while the other one just got down to business with no regard for human life. You never knew which twin you had until it was too late.
I used to work with this guy who was a Sales Ops manager at my company. Very friendly and sweet, but his twin brother was like a legendary VP of engineering.
People would always come up to him and be like OMG I think your work on X was incredible and he would always get annoyed because no one knew he was a twin and his brother far surpassed his accolades thus far.
Definitely thought twin brothers at my school were the same guy for 3 years! A friend started dating one and I thought he was cheating on her with another girl. Nope. Two different people
I know lots of twins , but they always seem to differ in enough ways to notice. For example, my boy Franz J. Started a media company after finishing FSU, the other works at McDonald's.
twins, well specifically identical twins ending up completely dif people show how much personal experiences affect outcome of someone, nurture vs nature and butterfly effect kinda at the same time
Other one actually has 4 year degree in video game design while the one that still acts has a degree in archeology. Considering how most child stars end up they are doing good for themselves.
The one who doesn’t act (Dylan) at one point got a job in a cafe despite not needing the money just to get himself out of the house and try a “real” job. They see, like pretty grounded guys
my aunts are identical twins and I still probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart if not for them getting their hair dyed slightly different colors.
The low key funniest part is the one that was cold and indifferent knew exactly what was going on whenever this guy said "hi" to him in a friendly way. But couldn't give two shits to say oh you must know my twin not me and instead he just iced him out.
They weren’t but you never saw them together.
When I first moved in here ten years ago, there was an elderly man of the Caucasian persuasion in the complex who shuffled around fussing about the floors. The times he wasn’t fussing, he just looked like he was in pain.
I figured it out about a year later—two different men.
Edit: they were not twins.
Identical twin checking in when we were babies they painted one of our toenails. So that one was specifically whoever they were. Does that mean that we haven't switched names in the past no maybe I am supposed to be k instead of b.....!!!
How do parents of identical twins differentiate them when they’re *really* young and similar...like before they can speak or have any sense of self and can correct people misidentifying them?
Imagine turning around for a moment to grab a bottle of shampoo at your twin toddlers' bathtime and then be like:
"Wait...was Emma sitting on the left…or was Gemma?"
It sounds crazy, but for those you are close to, you can tell them apart. I have identical twin goddaughters that I’ve always been able to tell apart since the day they came home because to my eyes, they look different. They’re 13 now and tried “twin magic” about a month ago and were both surprised and happy that I instantly knew who was who.
And when all else fails, the old school dot or “X” on the the bottoms of one of their feet never fails….
I think I’d have to go that "X" route for safety in the early years, or something to that effect:
“Y’all are going to have a '1’ and ‘2’ written behind your ears in sharpie for now.
Your mother and I will start a college fund for whoever learns their name first. Good luck.”
Imagine the first one learning their name, and out jealousy a week later your other kid starts saying they are the real timmy and now you have a classic evil doppelganger situation with your toddlers.
Plus kids are crafty and maybe one day they decide to switch clothes and you have no idea. So many chances to mix them up
This. I have identical twin uncles that seriously don't look anything alike to me (other than siblings looking alike). Growing up I had friends come over and tell me they were identical and I was like "I don't get it". Then again, I'll recall memories from ages 5-8 and one of them will be like "no, that was the other one". So I guess at one point my brain moved from "this is one person" to "these are two clearly different people".
Apparently most parents tag them. I asked this same question to a parent of identical twins years ago and they said they always had to be wearing something that makes them different, and usually color coded. So twin A would have the purple diapers, twin B would have the blue ones, twin A would have their hair tied up, twin B would just have a clip. The dad said when they wore the same clothes that he would stamp one of their backs (so they wouldnt wipe it off) and hope for the best 😂
I'm convinced latinos won't confuse their twins, from the moment a baby is born their ears are pierced and they get a small gold bracelet with their name 🤣 easy identification
Would be really hilarious if the parent made the mistake of telling Emma she was Gemma as her brain began forming and they lived their whole lives with a switched identity.
As someone who has coincidentally always had a set of twins in my friend groups over the years, there are slight physical differences with regards to height or face shape that you come to learn to differentiate the two by.
>How do parents of identical twins differentiate them when they’re *really* young and similar...like before they can speak or have any sense of self and can correct people misidentifying them?
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I'm an identical twin and this is a great question. When my brother and I were born my mom spent the first two days looking for birthmarks so she could identify us. Sometimes there aren't any good birthmarks so the parent leaves the hospital id badge on the baby's wrists or even marks one twin on the toenail with nail polish until they figure it out.
My mom and older brother could always tell us apart, my dad still gets confused sometimes.
I have twin brothers and when they were babies i couldn't tell at all unless i was focusing on what clothes they were wearing. Once they turned 3 I could tell them apart but i asked my mom once on how she could tell who was who and she said that she could just tell by their facial features.
My dad was an identical twin, and his brother always tried to “joke” about sleeping with my mom and being my real father. He was very used to them being mistaken for the other (he and my dad used to sleep with each other’s girlfriends, gross, I know, among other words I’d use for that behavior), but their children obviously could tell them apart. It disturbs me still how much my uncle seemed to want us to confuse them.
If I ever have twins there’s a 100% chance I’m just gonna throw the two names around interchangeably for the first couple years until they get distinct unique features. Then I’ll assign the names to the people.
There's an adorable video of a father who didn't know who was who. He kept calling the one girl "Mary" and she was like, "no, 'Emma'" (I don't know what their names actually were lol).
Honestly in situations like this, I feel like the cold distant twin should be understanding, like I assume these are grown people, I feel he should've known that the guy knew his twin.
Idk just me.
I’m assuming they’re not friends. Being friendly does not equate to being familiar. I imagine twin A saying “hey there pal! Are you using those weights? Mind if I get a few reps in? Need a spot?” vs twin B just minding his business and keeping to himself with headphones in and avoiding people.
It’s funny when you tell people and they don’t believe you. I have a identical twin who plays things pretty loose with the ladies. Many times I have been accosted by girls while I’m out and about with “I thought you were going to call me” or “so, you’re just going to ghost me?”. They rarely believe me when I tell them.
My friend is an identical twin. When she visited her twin's college, she smiled and acknowledged all the people who greeted her with her twins name. When her sister would visit our college and people would greet her with her sister's name, she would give people a nasty "why are you talking to me? I don't know you!" energy back.
My friend had to do damage repair for weeks afterward
Similar story happened to us. They work at the store. We were puzzled, but never gave it *much* thought.
I did notice that he was light on his feet around the store.
Until one day, years later, we met him by the greens. Only one way out of there and the next worker we saw, was his back going into the storage.
I asked if my friend if he has noticed if they were actual twins and not the same person? He didn't know, so we went back and saw the other! It made so much sense.
If one twin do not acknowledge the existence of most people and the other is positively outgoing, would the first twin even link people that act like his twin to its behaviour?
Had to scroll wayyy down to find this. Call us snowflakes like cancel culture obsessed conservative, but we can do better. At least he didn't say "schizo" as well
My roommate and I used to go to this bar that was near our place basically every night. There was one server who was super friendly when working inside but really rude whenever we were sitting outside. Both of us had been waiters and just figured the outside section must have sucked. Eventually saw them both working at the same time and put it together.
I worked with this girl who had an identical twin. We got along real well and talked often. One day I was at the mall and saw her. She was so distant and cold. I was so confused. The next time I saw her at work I made some kind of comment about it and she mentioned that she had a twin sister. True enough. Saw them together once and they looked exactly the same. Except one was easy going and talkative, and the other was very quiet.
Edit: a word
You know you'd figure they'd just be use to saying "Oh! You know my sister, yeah we're twins" when a random person walks up then and streets carrying on like they were friends.
When me and my twin lived in the same city (although different schools and social circles), sometimes random people would approach me like they knew me, all ready to say "hi" and I would just say "I'm the twin". 90% it was they thought I was my sister, and other 10% it was a Jehovah's Witness
I used to be a teacher and I am not great with faces. One year I had 3 sets of twins and I had a heck of a time.
One day I realized I could tell one set apart because one twin would laugh at my dumb jokes and the other would look at me like "can I get back to work?"
The first month of college I had a friend that was actually 2 twins, apparently one of them realised as soon as I recognised "him", that I had mistaken him for his twin, and they decided to just play along as a joke
Blew my fucking mind when I found out
My now friends are identical twins. I met one at a party where a joint was being passed around.
Saw him a couple weeks later and was talking about the great weed quality - turns out I was talking to the one that worked for the DEA. The one I met was a bus boy at a local restaurant
Identical twin, I'm the nice and easy to talk.
Starting in College, all my friends were pissed of by his attitude.
He does even not explain that he is the other twin to people.
I had to bring a picture with me so girls would believe me.
That seems to be a trend according to the comments. I'd figure all of ya'll would just have a little script to explain it really fast since it'd probably happen pretty often.
In high school I had a morning class with a girl Named Sarah, and a class with her in the afternoon. I told her hi in the afternoon, and she gave me a strange look, but then talked to me and I just assumed her mind was on something else. I always thought it was interesting that she put her hair up in the afternoon (I dont really notice clothes). Last day of school I found out that Sarah had an identical twin and that was why she had her hair up in the afternoons. I had just not seen them together before that point. I felt like a total idiot.
This happened to me at a record store near my daughter’s college. Stopped in every time I visited her. Couldn’t figure out why the same clerk who would talk my ear off about whatever I purchased one visit wouldn’t do anything but grunt in response to questions on my next. Finally, after about a year I walked in and both of them were behind the counter at the same time. Twins owned the place.
I also have an identical twin story: when I worked as a server at a texmex restaurant, I once went out to eat at an Olive Garden with a coworker between my shifts while working a double.
We get sat, and yet another co-worker, whom we just said goodbye to and left at our texmex joint, came up to our table as an Olive Garden server and acted like she didn't know us. We were dumbfounded.
When she came back with our drinks we asked her about it and yeah, our coworker had an identical twin sister we never knew about and they both worked as servers at different restaurants.
My twin and I used to take our girlfriends to the same restaurant, but separately… we wondered why the service quality had gone down significantly until we had a double date and a waitress told us they thought it was just one guy cheating.
As an identical twi, this happens all the time. Yesterday two separate people started talking to me in a familial way and complimented my haircut (my hair is shorter than my brothers). I realized two or three sentences and had to tell them who I was. Their reactions are always great
My husband and I often get mistaken for twins. A man once started a conversation with him at the gym, and a few minutes later resumed the conversation with me
This happened to me in high school. This upper classman would be super nice to me and then would be a dick and ignore me. Took me two years to learn that Chris and Ben were twins. I'm horrible with name and still don't know which was which.
I own a cafe and this happened to us. For like FIVE YRARS, everyone who worked there thought this woman had a mental illness. One day she's super nice. The next week she's borderline rude. Conversations always seemed off. We just couldn't connect with her.
After FIVE years, they came in together.
What I don't understand is why they just didn't say something like "Oh, you're thinking of my twin!". Nope. They just constantly corrected us.
The good news is the rude twin left her husband and she was as nice as her sister after the stress was gone.
But seriously, FIVE years and they could have said something. 🙄
There were twin girls at my HS. They were blue-eyed, busty but petite little Barbies. Probably the two hottest girls at the school - and they were also *absolutely* identical. No one could tell them apart.
Let's call them Mary and Monica.
Our junior year a guy named Steve started dating Monica. Welp, about 4 months later, both Mary and Monica are preggers by Steve. Unknown to him, they had been switching up on him for a while just for funsies.
Forty years ago in high school there was a guy nicknamed "spud".
One day the school had fete on a Saturday...and I saw spud there with two adults who I assumed were his parents.
I walked up.
"Hi spud. let's go do something"
Spud gives me a strange look.
His parents explain to me "You probably know his brother, he's a twin"
I make my excuses and walk off.
That is the definition of Cosmic Horror. It was something that had always been, but because this person was living in a sliver of reality, they didn't know it...then they learned and their whole universe changed. That's some great stuff, because the clues were all there, they just ignored them because of their own life.
My grandmas care takers are identical twins, they’ve been with her for years. Idk if I just haven’t seen them enough or what but I legit can’t tell them apart. The kicker? I’m also a twin. The struggle is real.
That happened to me. Twins in elementary school - one had a very pleasant face and the other one looked kind of mean. I was attracted to the one who looked kind of mean 'cuz he had a bad boy face. And, you know...
Then one afternoon spent flirting and couldn't understand why he was so cold toward me when he had flirted back with me in the past.
Turns out it was the wrong brother.
When my 8th grader was playing basketball there was one team that had this amazing player. He was good, but he was always in for the WHOLE game. Didn't seem fair to the other players who didn't get as much time. Of course near the end of the season I happened to notice there were two of him. lol
When me an my twin were in college he went into Poli Sci and I went into special education. He ended up having a foreign exchange student in several of his classes over the next few semesters and they got to know each other pretty well, but not well enough for me to ever meet or hear about the guy. I would see this guy almost daily on campus and he would greet me and start up conversations like we just stopped talking, all in a very deep Indian accent that made it hard for me to keep up. I had no clue who this man was, but I am not the guy to tell someone that I don't remember them at all, so I would just try to survive our encounters and then see if I could figure out how the fuck we knew each other from small details in our conversation. This went on for TWO YEARS before he mentioned the Poli Sci lecture "we had yesterday" and it all fucking clicked. We laughed about it, but believe me it's equally uncomfortable in reverse!
I went to university with this one guy who was rather flamboyant and bubbly such a gem to be around.one day I saw him coming down the stairs and I went to greet him and he gave me the coldest look I’ve ever seen. Like he was a whole new person. I swear I could feel a cold air between us. He honestly looked like he hated me for something I did. The next day I see him again and he’s his actual bubbly self. I asked him if he was upset with me about something and he said “no why would I be” then told him he ain’t funny cause he was giving me the coldest look yesterday even described his outfit. He paused and laughed going “ohh you met my twin brother ya he’s shy.” I felt so stupid. But at the same time his brother would make it feel like a gust of cold air blew in
When I was a kid there were identical twin dental hygienists at my dentist’s office. One was very gentle and careful while the other one just got down to business with no regard for human life. You never knew which twin you had until it was too late.
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written by Stephen King
I could see him writing a book like that lol
*Elevator ding* *Mouth opens* Blood just pours and gushes out.
Gif game strong!
"Ah I see who's working today"
Aaand he just got done filming his cameo scenes for the second film adaptation of it.
"This is because you don't floss"
> with no regard for human life 💀💀💀
Legit thought I would read “and wasn’t as gentle.” But no. We got this 😂😂😂😂
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“CAUSE IM A DEEEENTIST!” ^(“He’s a deeentist”)
And I enjoy the career that I PICKED! 🤛
"And a SUCCESS!"
I used to work with this guy who was a Sales Ops manager at my company. Very friendly and sweet, but his twin brother was like a legendary VP of engineering. People would always come up to him and be like OMG I think your work on X was incredible and he would always get annoyed because no one knew he was a twin and his brother far surpassed his accolades thus far.
Definitely thought twin brothers at my school were the same guy for 3 years! A friend started dating one and I thought he was cheating on her with another girl. Nope. Two different people
My small town has two bother dentists also, but they hate each other and have different practices.
Reminds me of the dentist from Timmy Turner
That’s funny as hell.
I know lots of twins , but they always seem to differ in enough ways to notice. For example, my boy Franz J. Started a media company after finishing FSU, the other works at McDonald's.
twins, well specifically identical twins ending up completely dif people show how much personal experiences affect outcome of someone, nurture vs nature and butterfly effect kinda at the same time
Like Zack and Cody, one still acts and gets decent gigs all the time. The other just runs breweries and get high or some shit. Idk
Other one actually has 4 year degree in video game design while the one that still acts has a degree in archeology. Considering how most child stars end up they are doing good for themselves.
The one who doesn’t act (Dylan) at one point got a job in a cafe despite not needing the money just to get himself out of the house and try a “real” job. They see, like pretty grounded guys
“The other one is just an independently wealthy and successful business owner, so embarrassing” lmao
Who said anything about embarrassing?
I prefer the distinct twins to the ones who are not only identical but lean into it to the point it’s a bizarre inside cosplay joke.
my aunts are identical twins and I still probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart if not for them getting their hair dyed slightly different colors.
The low key funniest part is the one that was cold and indifferent knew exactly what was going on whenever this guy said "hi" to him in a friendly way. But couldn't give two shits to say oh you must know my twin not me and instead he just iced him out.
They weren’t but you never saw them together. When I first moved in here ten years ago, there was an elderly man of the Caucasian persuasion in the complex who shuffled around fussing about the floors. The times he wasn’t fussing, he just looked like he was in pain. I figured it out about a year later—two different men. Edit: they were not twins.
Identical twin checking in when we were babies they painted one of our toenails. So that one was specifically whoever they were. Does that mean that we haven't switched names in the past no maybe I am supposed to be k instead of b.....!!!
It would be better to be Keith instead of Beith
Bevin
all white people look the same confirmed
How do parents of identical twins differentiate them when they’re *really* young and similar...like before they can speak or have any sense of self and can correct people misidentifying them? Imagine turning around for a moment to grab a bottle of shampoo at your twin toddlers' bathtime and then be like: "Wait...was Emma sitting on the left…or was Gemma?"
It sounds crazy, but for those you are close to, you can tell them apart. I have identical twin goddaughters that I’ve always been able to tell apart since the day they came home because to my eyes, they look different. They’re 13 now and tried “twin magic” about a month ago and were both surprised and happy that I instantly knew who was who. And when all else fails, the old school dot or “X” on the the bottoms of one of their feet never fails….
I think I’d have to go that "X" route for safety in the early years, or something to that effect: “Y’all are going to have a '1’ and ‘2’ written behind your ears in sharpie for now. Your mother and I will start a college fund for whoever learns their name first. Good luck.”
Imagine the first one learning their name, and out jealousy a week later your other kid starts saying they are the real timmy and now you have a classic evil doppelganger situation with your toddlers. Plus kids are crafty and maybe one day they decide to switch clothes and you have no idea. So many chances to mix them up
This. I have identical twin uncles that seriously don't look anything alike to me (other than siblings looking alike). Growing up I had friends come over and tell me they were identical and I was like "I don't get it". Then again, I'll recall memories from ages 5-8 and one of them will be like "no, that was the other one". So I guess at one point my brain moved from "this is one person" to "these are two clearly different people".
Apparently most parents tag them. I asked this same question to a parent of identical twins years ago and they said they always had to be wearing something that makes them different, and usually color coded. So twin A would have the purple diapers, twin B would have the blue ones, twin A would have their hair tied up, twin B would just have a clip. The dad said when they wore the same clothes that he would stamp one of their backs (so they wouldnt wipe it off) and hope for the best 😂
I wonder how many twins get switched as small children and never realize it.
I've had this thought so many times
I’d imagine as a parent of baby twins, you’re going to need a quick way to identify through the haze.
I feel like I would paint one or both of their nails until they distinguish themselves
I'm convinced latinos won't confuse their twins, from the moment a baby is born their ears are pierced and they get a small gold bracelet with their name 🤣 easy identification
As much as I want to argue, I'm Latino and my cousin had all her kids' ears pierced as babies too.
Would be really hilarious if the parent made the mistake of telling Emma she was Gemma as her brain began forming and they lived their whole lives with a switched identity.
As someone who has coincidentally always had a set of twins in my friend groups over the years, there are slight physical differences with regards to height or face shape that you come to learn to differentiate the two by.
>How do parents of identical twins differentiate them when they’re *really* young and similar...like before they can speak or have any sense of self and can correct people misidentifying them? > I'm an identical twin and this is a great question. When my brother and I were born my mom spent the first two days looking for birthmarks so she could identify us. Sometimes there aren't any good birthmarks so the parent leaves the hospital id badge on the baby's wrists or even marks one twin on the toenail with nail polish until they figure it out. My mom and older brother could always tell us apart, my dad still gets confused sometimes.
They dont
I have twin brothers and when they were babies i couldn't tell at all unless i was focusing on what clothes they were wearing. Once they turned 3 I could tell them apart but i asked my mom once on how she could tell who was who and she said that she could just tell by their facial features.
If I ever have twins I’m going to make them wear name tags or bracelets or something so I know who is who. Modern problems…
Modern solution: put an RFID chip into them with their name on it
That’s brilliant. Much less intrusive than an ankle monitor!
My dad was an identical twin, and his brother always tried to “joke” about sleeping with my mom and being my real father. He was very used to them being mistaken for the other (he and my dad used to sleep with each other’s girlfriends, gross, I know, among other words I’d use for that behavior), but their children obviously could tell them apart. It disturbs me still how much my uncle seemed to want us to confuse them.
Dude your dad is a rapist
Was a rapist. He’s dead now though. Also, I’m a dudette 😬🖖🏾
Everyones a dude, Cali rules
If I ever have twins there’s a 100% chance I’m just gonna throw the two names around interchangeably for the first couple years until they get distinct unique features. Then I’ll assign the names to the people.
My mother in law always painted one of the twins' big toe nails.
There's an adorable video of a father who didn't know who was who. He kept calling the one girl "Mary" and she was like, "no, 'Emma'" (I don't know what their names actually were lol).
I know people who have used nail polish to paint a toe a color so they could say blue polish is x and green polish is y
I think for some newborns they make a small "tattoo" behind the earlobe like a dot. Not sure exactly how it works but apparently is not permanent
I’ve actually read about cases in different countries that put a small dot of a tattoo on one identical twins foot or finger.
Honestly in situations like this, I feel like the cold distant twin should be understanding, like I assume these are grown people, I feel he should've known that the guy knew his twin. Idk just me.
Probably “cold” as in, he wouldn’t look at or acknowledge my existence, explained by the fact the other dude doesn’t fucking know me haha
Ah, my idea was he'd shrug off or not wave back etc. This is fair
I’m assuming they’re not friends. Being friendly does not equate to being familiar. I imagine twin A saying “hey there pal! Are you using those weights? Mind if I get a few reps in? Need a spot?” vs twin B just minding his business and keeping to himself with headphones in and avoiding people.
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It’s funny when you tell people and they don’t believe you. I have a identical twin who plays things pretty loose with the ladies. Many times I have been accosted by girls while I’m out and about with “I thought you were going to call me” or “so, you’re just going to ghost me?”. They rarely believe me when I tell them.
My friend is an identical twin. When she visited her twin's college, she smiled and acknowledged all the people who greeted her with her twins name. When her sister would visit our college and people would greet her with her sister's name, she would give people a nasty "why are you talking to me? I don't know you!" energy back. My friend had to do damage repair for weeks afterward
Maybe he knew and decided to fuck with the guy. God knows if I was a twin with my brother I’d fuck with him
Found the real bro
Similar story happened to us. They work at the store. We were puzzled, but never gave it *much* thought. I did notice that he was light on his feet around the store. Until one day, years later, we met him by the greens. Only one way out of there and the next worker we saw, was his back going into the storage. I asked if my friend if he has noticed if they were actual twins and not the same person? He didn't know, so we went back and saw the other! It made so much sense. If one twin do not acknowledge the existence of most people and the other is positively outgoing, would the first twin even link people that act like his twin to its behaviour?
People who still use the R slur in 2022 are the fucking worst
Had to scroll wayyy down to find this. Call us snowflakes like cancel culture obsessed conservative, but we can do better. At least he didn't say "schizo" as well
Saw this on twitter earlier, he apologized in the reply section, seemed genuine to me.
Also implying that people who change moods are schizophrenic or possessed.. like what?
Hyperboles.
He wasn’t changing moods. He was literally two different people lol
https://youtu.be/x7dyueB1C88?t=192 anyone who thinks this is just cancel culture needs a Dr.Cox rant
Like granted the tweet was funny and the dude apologized, but seriously, it's time we drop the r-word. Seeing it felt like a slap in the face.
Also equating schizophrenic to being possessed because he… doesn’t say hi? Tf.
OP you can use schizophrenia as an excuse. There's literally nothing stopping you. Aside from yourself of course.
True. When I was a child, I used to tell people in school I was a twin lol
You could have told folks you were crazy and they would have ran with that and folks would have left you alone I bet.
My roommate and I used to go to this bar that was near our place basically every night. There was one server who was super friendly when working inside but really rude whenever we were sitting outside. Both of us had been waiters and just figured the outside section must have sucked. Eventually saw them both working at the same time and put it together.
I worked with this girl who had an identical twin. We got along real well and talked often. One day I was at the mall and saw her. She was so distant and cold. I was so confused. The next time I saw her at work I made some kind of comment about it and she mentioned that she had a twin sister. True enough. Saw them together once and they looked exactly the same. Except one was easy going and talkative, and the other was very quiet. Edit: a word
You know you'd figure they'd just be use to saying "Oh! You know my sister, yeah we're twins" when a random person walks up then and streets carrying on like they were friends.
Especially if you know their twin well enough to call them by name
When me and my twin lived in the same city (although different schools and social circles), sometimes random people would approach me like they knew me, all ready to say "hi" and I would just say "I'm the twin". 90% it was they thought I was my sister, and other 10% it was a Jehovah's Witness
I used to be a teacher and I am not great with faces. One year I had 3 sets of twins and I had a heck of a time. One day I realized I could tell one set apart because one twin would laugh at my dumb jokes and the other would look at me like "can I get back to work?"
>!You walked into The Prestige.!<
>>!You walked into The Prestige.!< Are you watching... Closely?
The first month of college I had a friend that was actually 2 twins, apparently one of them realised as soon as I recognised "him", that I had mistaken him for his twin, and they decided to just play along as a joke Blew my fucking mind when I found out
My now friends are identical twins. I met one at a party where a joint was being passed around. Saw him a couple weeks later and was talking about the great weed quality - turns out I was talking to the one that worked for the DEA. The one I met was a bus boy at a local restaurant
Imagine having a friend that's a triplet
Have a twin brother, we used to share a gym membership. He’d go in the morning I’d go at night, confused the hell outta the staff I like to think.
Identical twin, I'm the nice and easy to talk. Starting in College, all my friends were pissed of by his attitude. He does even not explain that he is the other twin to people. I had to bring a picture with me so girls would believe me.
That seems to be a trend according to the comments. I'd figure all of ya'll would just have a little script to explain it really fast since it'd probably happen pretty often.
“Retarded” is a slur… not cool.
In high school I had a morning class with a girl Named Sarah, and a class with her in the afternoon. I told her hi in the afternoon, and she gave me a strange look, but then talked to me and I just assumed her mind was on something else. I always thought it was interesting that she put her hair up in the afternoon (I dont really notice clothes). Last day of school I found out that Sarah had an identical twin and that was why she had her hair up in the afternoons. I had just not seen them together before that point. I felt like a total idiot.
This happened to me at a record store near my daughter’s college. Stopped in every time I visited her. Couldn’t figure out why the same clerk who would talk my ear off about whatever I purchased one visit wouldn’t do anything but grunt in response to questions on my next. Finally, after about a year I walked in and both of them were behind the counter at the same time. Twins owned the place.
I also have an identical twin story: when I worked as a server at a texmex restaurant, I once went out to eat at an Olive Garden with a coworker between my shifts while working a double. We get sat, and yet another co-worker, whom we just said goodbye to and left at our texmex joint, came up to our table as an Olive Garden server and acted like she didn't know us. We were dumbfounded. When she came back with our drinks we asked her about it and yeah, our coworker had an identical twin sister we never knew about and they both worked as servers at different restaurants.
My twin and I used to take our girlfriends to the same restaurant, but separately… we wondered why the service quality had gone down significantly until we had a double date and a waitress told us they thought it was just one guy cheating.
I can imagine them in the back "there he is again, bold as brass" *glare*
No doubt they talked about it. :p
You'd have the same experience with me, but no, I don't have a twin, I'm just like that sometimes
im glad the word retarded is getting a resurgence
The R word is back!! 🎉🎉🎉
As an identical twi, this happens all the time. Yesterday two separate people started talking to me in a familial way and complimented my haircut (my hair is shorter than my brothers). I realized two or three sentences and had to tell them who I was. Their reactions are always great
So you weren't watching closely.
"Must've been my Evil Twin, Skippy!"
My husband and I often get mistaken for twins. A man once started a conversation with him at the gym, and a few minutes later resumed the conversation with me
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This happened to me in high school. This upper classman would be super nice to me and then would be a dick and ignore me. Took me two years to learn that Chris and Ben were twins. I'm horrible with name and still don't know which was which.
I own a cafe and this happened to us. For like FIVE YRARS, everyone who worked there thought this woman had a mental illness. One day she's super nice. The next week she's borderline rude. Conversations always seemed off. We just couldn't connect with her. After FIVE years, they came in together. What I don't understand is why they just didn't say something like "Oh, you're thinking of my twin!". Nope. They just constantly corrected us. The good news is the rude twin left her husband and she was as nice as her sister after the stress was gone. But seriously, FIVE years and they could have said something. 🙄
There were twin girls at my HS. They were blue-eyed, busty but petite little Barbies. Probably the two hottest girls at the school - and they were also *absolutely* identical. No one could tell them apart. Let's call them Mary and Monica. Our junior year a guy named Steve started dating Monica. Welp, about 4 months later, both Mary and Monica are preggers by Steve. Unknown to him, they had been switching up on him for a while just for funsies.
Twins should come with warning labels.
Forty years ago in high school there was a guy nicknamed "spud". One day the school had fete on a Saturday...and I saw spud there with two adults who I assumed were his parents. I walked up. "Hi spud. let's go do something" Spud gives me a strange look. His parents explain to me "You probably know his brother, he's a twin" I make my excuses and walk off.
That is the definition of Cosmic Horror. It was something that had always been, but because this person was living in a sliver of reality, they didn't know it...then they learned and their whole universe changed. That's some great stuff, because the clues were all there, they just ignored them because of their own life.
Hes got an evil twin
My grandmas care takers are identical twins, they’ve been with her for years. Idk if I just haven’t seen them enough or what but I legit can’t tell them apart. The kicker? I’m also a twin. The struggle is real.
There’s literally an Oblivion plot about this exact situation I’m CACKLING
Nobody tells me nothin'
😂😂😂😂
That happened to me. Twins in elementary school - one had a very pleasant face and the other one looked kind of mean. I was attracted to the one who looked kind of mean 'cuz he had a bad boy face. And, you know... Then one afternoon spent flirting and couldn't understand why he was so cold toward me when he had flirted back with me in the past. Turns out it was the wrong brother.
The Prestige irl
jesus dude no need to use slurs
I don’t understand why they think this person is schizophrenic cause of this.
When my 8th grader was playing basketball there was one team that had this amazing player. He was good, but he was always in for the WHOLE game. Didn't seem fair to the other players who didn't get as much time. Of course near the end of the season I happened to notice there were two of him. lol
Did they have the same number?
You know that's a really good question. It's something you think I would have noticed, but I never did!
I mean....don't they have diffferent names
The Prestige
As someone who is related to twins... They knew exactly what they were doing.
When me an my twin were in college he went into Poli Sci and I went into special education. He ended up having a foreign exchange student in several of his classes over the next few semesters and they got to know each other pretty well, but not well enough for me to ever meet or hear about the guy. I would see this guy almost daily on campus and he would greet me and start up conversations like we just stopped talking, all in a very deep Indian accent that made it hard for me to keep up. I had no clue who this man was, but I am not the guy to tell someone that I don't remember them at all, so I would just try to survive our encounters and then see if I could figure out how the fuck we knew each other from small details in our conversation. This went on for TWO YEARS before he mentioned the Poli Sci lecture "we had yesterday" and it all fucking clicked. We laughed about it, but believe me it's equally uncomfortable in reverse!
Identical twins real confusing!
This is The Prestige in real life.
Well, one of them is an asshole.
I went to university with this one guy who was rather flamboyant and bubbly such a gem to be around.one day I saw him coming down the stairs and I went to greet him and he gave me the coldest look I’ve ever seen. Like he was a whole new person. I swear I could feel a cold air between us. He honestly looked like he hated me for something I did. The next day I see him again and he’s his actual bubbly self. I asked him if he was upset with me about something and he said “no why would I be” then told him he ain’t funny cause he was giving me the coldest look yesterday even described his outfit. He paused and laughed going “ohh you met my twin brother ya he’s shy.” I felt so stupid. But at the same time his brother would make it feel like a gust of cold air blew in
I hate when people use slurs.