Realizing Twins are two completely different people

[Anonymous]

This is the hardest part of being a twin. Being your own person. You're constantly referred to as "The Twins" and "so and so's twin" I've had a hard time developing since I was a baby for this reason.

My brother would do everything just in time, and maybe a little sooner. I was a problem child. I didn't walk until I was three, talk until I was in preschool. I was in the hospital constantly.

My brother would wing his tests and get a perfect A, while if I studied all night I'd be lucky to get a C. The result of this was the loss of my fathers attention.

He'd always say "well you're twins, you can do it if he can. you're not even trying"

I have always lived in his shadow, and even if i escape everyone who makes me feel this way, i'll never truly escape it. It's already taken a toll on my emotional state.

Think about the way you treat and regard twins, it's not uncommon for a twin to feel this way.

[Sherrymoua]

You know, I myself have a twin, and I'm the same as you, but only that if she were to fall, I would fall harder... or if I were to get lucky then she'll get really lucky the next day or in the following week... it's hard you know when we get bad luck, and every month we do, because my twin keeps track of everything, like when we're going to get bad luck or when we need to becareful like this one time she almost fell off a cliff, it's a good thing she told because if she didn't my sister would have never saved me when I was rolling down a cliff... It's hard... also when we get hurt we warm each other just in case to get ourselves a heads up... It's a good thing we do

[Anonymous]

I'm going out with a twin. :) I'm thinking I shouldn't mention too much about her twin status, but treat her just like a normal girl with a normal sister, and even apply the same younger/older sibling cliches. I don't mention similarities, only the differences haha.

[BaileyisDarcy]

I know one chick who's a twin who is actually three years older than her twin brother.

I wanna see if anyone can tell me how that works. (I do know, I'm just curious what people will say)

But yeah that is stupid, what makes it worse is parents dressing up their twins to look exactly the same. I mean come on!

[CheerGirl38139]

I'm a twin and I have no idea what you mean. Unless it was a split frozen embryo or something.

[lifes_curve_ball]

I'm no twin but yeah that's just idiotic. Everyone is his/her own person and you gotta treat him/her as an individual.

[YourFutureEx]

Some people even treat twins as one unit. This is stupid.

[Michael_Rc46]

Sound exactly like me and my twin. The most annoying thing was people asking if we knew what the other was thinking -_-

[JackTyler]

I'm a twin and I can relate to this. My sister was usually the brighter one and I sometimes felt like I had to compete with her. Nice take.

[chocolateismylover]

Yeah. One thing I really hate about being a twin is having people constantly compare you.

[creepycreeper]

I bet you'd love Gravity Falls.