Comments on yes and yes: True Story: I'm an Identical Twin

My brother Randy and I are identical twins but we ...

2011-01-01T07:40:06.123-06:00

My brother Randy and I are identical twins but we always behave and dress differently.Both of us always try to be individual and different.No one seems to have any trouble telling us apart either.

My mom and aunt are identical twins. We lost my fa...

2010-08-02T08:13:48.650-05:00

My mom and aunt are identical twins. We lost my father, uncle and my cousin (Aunt's husband and son) in a car accident when I was two. Since that tragedy, my aunt lived with us. From two broken families we formed one new one. So since then I always felt like I had twin moms.
They got along ok before the accident but it was amazing how much closer they got afterwards.
They do a lot together and still get the same haircuts, buy similar clothing, say similar things on the phone and like almost the same stuff etc, so it was difficult for me to tell them apart when I was young.
Living with them though I noticed differences between them as I got older.
It can be rough, two moms equalled double the attention since I they said was the only man left in their lives.
So needless to say it was hard having two identical nagging mothers.
Still, I love them both very much and to me, they're both my darling mothers.

Hello, I'm a fraternal twin and my sister and...

2010-07-11T02:09:52.208-05:00

Hello,

I'm a fraternal twin and my sister and I are very close. Our other siblings said that we act as if we are only children.

We are very different, but yet close.

We live on opposite sides of the town due to jobs.

I do miss her though....

I'm an identical twin and what I'm most in...

2010-02-20T23:16:57.362-06:00

I'm an identical twin and what I'm most interested in is the sexuality component.
My sister is gay and I am not, I was just wondering if anyone else had this situation as it seems to be unique to us at the moment?

It definitely gives great debate about the nature vs nurture argument...

Nice! I'm not a twin, but my sister and I are ...

2010-02-13T07:37:39.544-06:00

Nice! I'm not a twin, but my sister and I are a year apart, and a lot of the twin things work for us. Nowhere as close as a twin-connection of course. But we had our abbreviated language, could read each other's minds, crack jokes that only we'd get while our friends looked on confused etc. Much much fun. Also much, much annoying as we grew up. :)
Really nice read.

Ohhhh...listen to this! I am a twin! I have a twi...

2010-02-07T19:49:59.782-06:00

Ohhhh...listen to this!
I am a twin! I have a twin sister. Our younger brothers are also twins! My parents had twins twice NATURALLY! In fact, they had NO idea they were having twins with my sister and I because that was before they did ultrasounds!
Not only am I a twin sister and a sister of twins, I am an auntie of twins and a cousin of twins! I have had two children but (very thankfully!) I am not the mother of twins! Adorable YES, hard work YES! :D

I'm an identical twin! It's not really lik...

2010-02-05T19:38:03.811-06:00

I'm an identical twin! It's not really like having 24/7 competition, because you do develop your own personalities and goals. (Though sometimes the fact that we are so similary annoys me.)

People ask what it's like being a twin, and I really don't know how to respond. We don't have any other siblings that we grew up with, so we don't really have anything to compare our experience to. But we do usually know more or less what the other is thinking.

I think other people see mostly the similarities in twins, but we notice the differences before the similarities. :)

-Melissa

Shiying! ahahahaha! When ever I'd encounter o...

2010-02-04T20:38:03.268-06:00

Shiying! ahahahaha! When ever I'd encounter one of the twins around campus, I'd be all "Poehler!? Hey!"

And then they'd usually be "I'm Carrie, Sarah."

XD

I liked this one, twins are so fascinating. That s...

2010-02-04T20:23:12.476-06:00

I liked this one, twins are so fascinating. That sounds a bit strange I guess. I've always wanted a twin though (because I was obsessed with the Sweet Valley books as a kid).

I had a friend who was a twin in grade school. Unf...

2010-02-04T20:20:56.430-06:00

I had a friend who was a twin in grade school. Unfortunately, her identical sister didn't like me so much. Conversations usually went one of two ways:

1) "Hey!" "Hey!"
or
2) "Hey!" "Don't talk to me"

After a while, I just let her start our conversations...

Twin = 24/7 Competition Don't think I'll b...

2010-02-04T16:25:31.567-06:00

Twin = 24/7 Competition
Don't think I'll be happy with that!

My dad has a twin brother and although they are no...

2010-02-04T16:02:36.500-06:00

My dad has a twin brother and although they are not identical, there were a lot of things they did similarly. I specifically remember one time when my uncle visited and was sleeping on the couch. I walked right up to him thinking it was my dad because it was the same way my dad sleeps on the couch.

The last part of this article really made me happy...

2010-02-04T15:52:31.485-06:00

The last part of this article really made me happy. I can relate to not needing to make friends because my best friends are already my siblings.

so, this may sound completely odd and unreal, but ...

2010-02-04T12:34:29.254-06:00

so, this may sound completely odd and unreal, but my best friend and i, who i met just a year ago, call each other "twin" and after reading this True Story, my mind is blown. although lisa and i have only known each other for a short amount of time, we have become literally inseparable, we share thoughts, feelings, have our own abbreviated language, the whole nine yards. reading this interview kinda creeped me out seeing as I related to every single statement, besides not being identical to my "twin."

now, i know what you're probably thinking. people become best friends for a reason-- because they have so much in common and they relate so well. well, let me tell you, i've had plenty of great/wonderful/best friends in my life and nothing has been the same as the twinship of lisa and i.

yes it's weird, yes, it doesn't make sense, but could it be possible to have a soul twin?

that is so cool :) i've known a couple sets o...

2010-02-04T11:59:11.504-06:00

that is so cool :) i've known a couple sets of twins, but they are all soooo different from each other.

when i first read the subject line i thought OMG sarah von has a TWIN???

Carrie's answers sound just like my two older ...

2010-02-04T11:53:04.752-06:00

Carrie's answers sound just like my two older cousins who are twins. They totally have their own language, feel each other's pain in a unique way, have a special bond and are each other's best friend. It's been particularly interesting in the last two years as their lives have become profoundly different. The older twin is a high school Spanish teacher living with her boyfriend not far from home. The younger got married a year and a half ago, moved to Florida and just had a baby two months ago!

I've known many twins: two sets of my mom's siblings are twins, my cousins above, a set of girls a babysat for, a set of boys I babysat for. I'm surrounded by them, but that's ok because I find them fascinating! I hope to have twins when I finally have children.

I think I'd hate to have a twin. Maybe it'...

2010-02-04T09:59:32.532-06:00

I think I'd hate to have a twin. Maybe it's because I'm an only child so I tend to be a quite fiercely independant anyway but still...no ta.

Did you ever go through the phase of dressing exactly the same? Or rebelling and trying to dress as differently as possible? See, I know one set of female twins, and everything is such a huge competition between them! Do you two ever feel the need to out do each other like that?

I'm a twin! Identical. We live in separate sta...

2010-02-04T07:26:20.093-06:00

I'm a twin! Identical. We live in separate states now and although we are similiar in many ways, we are completely opposite in other ways. I miss seeing her as often as I used to, but it has helped us develop our own individuality.

My husband, who best friends are also twins, always says...twins are sooo weird.

2010-02-04T07:24:33.072-06:00

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The hubs is a twin. I don't know the first th...

2010-02-04T07:06:38.934-06:00

The hubs is a twin. I don't know the first thing about growing up with a sibling, let alone a TWIN sibling, so I am constantly asking questions about twin-dom. This was a really interesting True Story and surprisingly different-yet-similar than the version I hear.

Questions for Carrie: was it, or has it been, harder to date because of having an identical twin? Do you two live together now?