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30 Hidden Perks Of Having A Twin That You Haven’t Thought About Shared By People Online
Having a person that looks just like you may seem weird to most of us, but for identical twins, it’s their reality. And if you have an identical twin, you can’t resist the temptation to prank people from time to time or switch places at school. In addition to that, you always have a friend by your side who understands you like no one else would.
It’s not that often that you meet twins, but it does make you wonder what it’s like to have a copy of yourself. A Reddit user named OnidaKYGel also was wondering that and asked redditors: "In what ways did you take advantage of having a twin?" Twins and people who knew twins responded with some interesting stories and here are some of them.
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#1
I visited my identical twin brother at his college where a lot of his floor didn't know he was a twin. That night he had some people over in his apartment and I hid in the bedroom. Note, he has a beard and I don't. While they were hanging out (and me hiding), he announces to the group that he's tired of his beard and is gonna shave it off, so he escapes to the bedroom where I'm hiding as if to shave. We switch clothes and I walk back out to the group with my bare face. Everyone takes note and, while it's generally an unusual thing to do at a party, nobody thinks much of it. After a bit I announce, "ya know, I kinda miss my beard. I think I'm gonna grow it back". At which point I go to the other room where my bearded twin was hiding. We switch clothes back and he walks back out to the group immediately re-bearded. People lost their freaking minds.
Rolie_polie&people 4 years ago
I actually did this with MY twin once! Fooled the heck out of my dad
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#2
I'm not a twin but have identical twins. One year, one of them got tired during a shopping trip for school clothes. She said to her sister, "Try this on. I want to see how it looks on me."
Crochet lady 4 years ago
My identical twin boys were getting dressed for a wedding and one of them said he was going to go look in the mirror to see how he looked in his suit and then he turned to look his twin and said "oh, I don't need to, I look great". He could just look at his brother to see how he looked. Haha.
Autumn 4 years ago (edited)
Then you are also genius. Also I love your profile pic. Kiri is awesome!
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#3
My dad is friends with identical twins and he told me this funny story. He was with them at an open house for their aero club (my dad and the two twins are all pilots and were supporting the event). Someone was really curious and asked the twins if there was any truth to the stories about twin telepathy (where twins have some sort of psychic connection). They were both quiet for a few moments and it started to get uncomfortable. The man looked a little embarrassed and said something along the lines that he was just curious and it was a silly question. One of the twins looked him in the eyes and said, "Oh it's not a problem, we were just discussing how we were going to answer." There was a moment of confusion on the man's face and the twins busted out laughing saying they had been waiting for an opportunity to try that joke out.
Anthony Goldstein (female) 4 years ago
As a twin, not really. I've been around my brother so long I can kinda tell how his mind works, and sometimes I can guess what he's gonna say, but we can't have conversations.
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alex cosgrove 4 years ago
I’m a twin, I’ve had plenty of times where we’ve shared the same dreams, texted each the same joke or thought the other was thinking. We live far away from each other but our moods run pretty similarly.
M.C. 4 years ago
My identical twin cousins have this party trick where you tell one of them a celebrity, and a few moments later the other one can tell you. We've sent the other out of the building, but it's always the same; half a minute after her return she'll blurt out whoever it is. Three years after they've started nobody has figured out how they do it.
PineappleQueen 4 years ago
I, as twin, think telepathy is real between us. Although he’s a boy and I’m a girl, I rly don’t think that effects it because at random points in time we’ll both look at each other and shout the exact same thing at the exact same time. It’s so funny but sometimes we even do it on accident
#4
Am a twin. (If you're reading this twin brother-hi!) Inside jokes. My twin brother and I have so many inside jokes even now at 30 years old. And the best part is our minds work alike that we only have to say one or two words and the other one is busting up laughing. Our other brothers and each of our wives look at us like we're nuts but most people don't get it. There's a connection there that normal siblings just can't have. He was my first roommate after all.
KatHat 4 years ago
I love this, but I don't think that "normal siblings" can't have it. My brother and I - two years apart - have this kind of shared humour. It baffles my mother but we just know what will make the other laugh.
Yes, I’m a Bookworm (she/her) 4 years ago
Same here, my brother and I, (four years apart) have this same kind of thing. I also have this with my best friend, we’ve known each other for so long and we have the same sense of humour that one of us will say one word (usually something like “remember?”) and the we will both burst out laughing. This also is useful because we have a lot of male friends in our friend group and if we don’t want them to know something we can say it with facial expressions.
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Steve in Denver 4 years ago
I've read of twins knowing when something is wrong. ///// A twin knew her sister was in trouble and told her parents they have to find her. They were able to traace her cell phone and her car had gone off the road into a creek and passing cars couldn't see her. ///// A brother knew his twin had died in the war. ///// Two twins separated as babies, didn't know about each other until an online DNA test in their 30s. They led almost identical lives, had similar haircuts, eyeglasses, clothing, and WIVES.
DancingPig 4 years ago
I've always wanted to do that. Unfortunately I am more likely to swallow Mars than to be able to.😑
#5
I make absolutely every mundane task into a two-man job if I can. No matter how easy it would be to do on my own, if I can rope my brother in, I do. Grocery shopping, dishes, mowing, cleaning- no matter the job, I ask that he pitches in or makes me pitch in if he started the job. I always include him with my friends and social obligations when possible. Same goes for him with me. I always include him in every co-op game when possible, we try to tackle every game together. I always seek his input on writing, on jokes, relationships, work, musical discoveries. The cumulative effect is, absolutely everything is easier. I always have someone in my corner, someone who cares, my best friend is always there for me and he brightens up every moment of my life. I could not ask for anything more. Love you Jim.
Rolie_polie&people 4 years ago
Imma go in the corner to hug my sis real quick-
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Donna Leske 4 years ago
Will you break this down for me? How much of this post did each of you write?
Abigail S 4 years ago
Gah I feel so bad yesterday my twin was going to go shopping with her friend who is my friend too and I wanted to come, and she literally said that i couldn't use her as a get in free card to get to stuff. I just wanted to go with my friend too!
#6
I can unlock his phone with facial recognition and send stupid messages to other people from it. Edit: we are 37 Edit 2: wow thanks for all the awards, who knew being a jerk to your brother could pay off? Phone was a Pixel 4 and yes Facebook confuses the two of us when it suggests that we may be in a photo Edit 3: For all of you who asked, no the finger print scan does not work.
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
I use the fingerprint on my phone. So, if I have a secret evil twin brother that I don't know about, he can't unlock my phone.
Johnny 4 years ago
My niece found out that she can unlock her 1 year older brother's phone using face unlock -- he usually wears a hat, and when she wears a similar hat, she can unlock his phone. If you cover up the hair, they do look an awful lot alike. It doesn't work the other way, the nephew can't unlock his sister's phone... this is on an Android phone, not sure if it would work on Apple.
#7
Damn there are very few actually upvoted stories from first hand twins. Some of them are just plain boring. This is probably too late. But here are some of mine: Grade school. I took science period 1 and my brother had it period 2. I took a test and at the end the teacher goes over the answers. I took the test, walked out of class switched my sweater and walked back in to ace the test for my brother. Multiple times i've forgotten my ID for bars or w/e. We regularly just had each other our ID's to get passes. It's come in handy when we were making films in HS. We utilized the ability to make it look like 1 person playing 2 people. I've switched classes in Highschool to ask a girl out for my brother. Didn't really work, and i was forced to take his class all week to convince the teacher we didn't switch. Had an ongoing bet with my Physics teacher that we could switch on him without him noticing. If we succeeded I would get an A on the final. So for months i would come in acting confused where I sat and kind of just made it seem normal. On the day we were TAKING the final, we switched. It's easy. Everyone is not interacting it is face down looking at a scantron. He filled out the scantron with his name, and turned it in. Moments later i walked in being like "God damn it you took my test!". Got an A. Edit: Fun one for all. I literally have no clue which one i am regularly in old photos and videos. It could be the worlds most dangerous drinking game. Old home videos and no one in the family knows and kinda just guesses until someone in the video shouts our name. Old photos i've gotten confused, even of me in highschool. Probably not something talked about much. My brother did post a good story below. Where my at the time fiance got like creep pictures of my brother on a date. She thought she busted wide open a cheating scandal You also get pretty lucky as far as healthcare. Turns out we got the same problems. So downsides? Our fico reports have been a constant headache when buying houses.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Hahaha starts post with "the other posts are boring" then proceeds with long series of average "I'm twin so we switched in school" anecdotes.
Parmeisan 4 years ago
Very interesting about the old photos! Not something I'd thought of, but it makes sense I guess. Small differences in the present day might make it not-a-problem most of the time (e.g. if the twins have different haircuts) but 5 years later, who remembers? So, neat. I really need more info on the "at the time fiance" though. Did she somehow not know you were a twin? Is she "at the time" fiance because you're married to her now, or because you broke it off when you learned she has trust issues, or what? Need more! :)
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Twin sisters when I was in high school used the same photo for the yearbook every year. It really stands out.
#8
My brothers are twins and the only thing I remember them talking about that they took advantage of is one twin would take spankings for the other twin. One of my brothers is a marine, whose always been pretty “tough” I guess you’d say. And the other brother is a very feminine guy who gets very emotional and wouldnt take a punishment easily. He’s gay, although I am not saying it’s because he’s gay that he’s like that it’s just who he is. So basically, the first brother told me when we were kids he would always take spankings for his brother because getting spanked only hurt for a second and didn’t really bother him and it would save our “weaker” brother from having to endure something that would seriously effect him.
6two nerd 4 years ago
I would get spanked as a child but only if I was in serious trouble (there were a few not good things I did as a kid) it only happened a couple times and I learned from my mistakes so I wouldn't get spanked again. Not every parent who punishes their child is evil (though I think a majority do abuse it)
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KermitZeFwog 4 years ago
lol would love to have a twin like that tbh. When I was younger, whenever my siblings and I got in trouble, we would get spankings. Brings a lot of funny stories because one of our favorite things to do to protect our bums was doubling up on underwear
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
That's really loving and thoughtful. I hope the gay twin got his brother hooked up. We gays often know super hot girls, but we're gay.
#9
This may get lost in the 1000s of responses but it was so special, and something I didn’t realize until late in my adult life: we always had a ‘built in best friend’. I never had to worry about having someone to sit with me in the lunch room, never stressed about attending a new school; going to summer camp or a new environment wasn’t as stressful as so many introverted children(and we are both introverts). We are both on the autism spectrum but never got diagnosed as children bc we were each other’s coping mechanisms. Having a connection with each other hid the fact we weren’t great at social norms with others. We always had someone to do school work with and excelled academically by helping each other. Looking back we had more confidence than many of our peers bc we had security in each other. To this day we’ve never replicated the connection we have with other people, though we both have happy fulfilling marriages with amazing partners. The advantage is someone who absolutely understands you and what that does for your confidence, psyche, and perseverance in life.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
I went to school with a set of triplets. Our school purposefully separated them into different classes so they'd be forced to make friends rather than relying on each other.
Mo Poppins 4 years ago
Really lovely to have a built-in support system, but for both of their sakes, I hope one doesn't outlive the other. Seems like it'd be devastating...though I assume they'd likely experience what old married couples do, if they've had a close, (co)dependent relationship with one another for many, many decades, or in this case, since birth: the other twin may die mere hours or days later, wherein they'd be reunited, depending on what one knows or believes to occur when our mortal selves cease to be.
Katrijn Vermeiren 4 years ago
I have exactly the same experience. Only got diagnosed at 35. We're not identical twins and always had different interests but my sister was always there for every new thing we had to do. The first time I really had to do an unfamiliar situation on my own is when I went to university. We still shared a room though.
#10
I was good friends with identical twins in college. My favorite story with them was one night at the bar, one of them was hooking up with a girl, and walked away to either go to the bathroom or get a drink or something. At that very moment, his brother showed up and walked into the bar, and the girl just grabbed him and started kissing him. The look of shock/happiness on his face was hilarious.
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
I knew a guy, tall, redhead, glasses, very distinctive. I saw him at a concert. Then I went upstairs to the balcony bar and there he was with two beers. I grabbed one and took a sip. He said, "What do you think you're doing?" His girlfriend came back and asked if he got her a beer. He pointed to the one I was drinking. I asked, "Mitch?" He said, "Mark, Mitch is my twin." I bought her a beer and went downstais. Mitch was standing by my friends. He smiled at me and I said, "I just met Mark." He laughed out loud.
#11
Identical twin here. To be honest I wish I’d done more with it growing up but it has come in handy. For example, when visiting my brother at his college I got approached by a random guy at a bar/party who asked if I was ready for that drink he owed me. Yes please! On the subject of parties, one downside of being a twin that I haven’t seen mentioned is the weird near out of body experience of seeing your twin looking like a fool as they’re busting moves on the dance floor and thinking to yourself “oh god is that what I look like”? It genuinely makes me so self conscious/is an absolute vibe killer.
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Should have made a joke of the dancing, joined his brother and said, "We share a lot of traits."
#12
I have a twin brother. The advantage is always having some one to talk to. No matter how good or shitty our days were we’re there for each other.
Niaxa King 4 years ago
That's just sibling dynamics I think. My sis n I are 4 yrs apart n I wud say the exact same. We go through everything together.
#13
Not me, but my brothers. Not identical, but pretty close. Names changed to protect the guilty. When they were young, 16 or 17, Bob was out driving and got pulled over for speeding. He only had a couple points left on his license, so he said he forgot his license at home, and gave the cop Jack’s name. Cop goes, pulls up the record, gives ‘Jack’ his ticket and off they go. Being a good bro, Bob told Jack, and of course paid the ticket. Warned him he better be careful because now he only has a couple points left on his license too. Funniest part of the story. Bob is now a police officer!
#14
2 cakes on our birthday 🎂🎂
Couldnt_Find_A_Good_Name 4 years ago
Well, my younger brother has his b'day exactly a week after mine, so instead of having two parties in one week, we decided we will have both on either my b'day or his, sooooo... pretty much the same thing?
Anime SImp 4 years ago
same with me and my sister , my mom was scared we'd have the same birthday , but we always celebrate both of our birthday on the same day when some one like our cousins or grandparents come over , but we still celebrate both birthdays seperate on the actually day of our birthday
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Julie Daly 4 years ago
I feel hard done by; having to share my birthday cake with my twin. Lol
Marc Carroll 4 years ago
my family early on tried to give my twin and i one cake on our birthday. we ended that. including my twin, i have eight siblings. two cakes not going stale.
A Random Panda 4 years ago
Me and my uncle's birthday are two days apart, but we shared a cake.
PineappleQueen 4 years ago
My birthday is next month and we are getting two cakes but only because i want a pineapple upside down and he wanted chocolate
#15
my twin and i used to switch classes to take exams for each other in middle and high school. it was pretty fun, but we started to differ in looks as we got older so it probably wouldn’t work anymore lol. although, our voices still sound exactly the same, so we can often trick our parents on the phone and stuff like that. also not trying to say we have telepathy, but when you spend literally every waking second of your life together, we can always kind of know what each other is thinking. it’s like we’ve developed our own language
Glory The Rainwing 4 years ago
That is really cool! I wish I had a twin... omg she would look like me and we would switch classes all the time!
Emo Sloth 4 years ago
But... she could turn invisible or change her colors to not look like you, assuming she is a rainwing. Although identical poison-death-spit is pretty cool
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CheshireMitsu 4 years ago
definitely not twins with my sister, we arent even biologically related, but its always fun knowing what the other is thinking. brothers will say some stupid stuff (like last night; "A DYED CRACKER") and then well look at each other and have a whole conversation in a one-second glance
Sarah Simons 4 years ago
Actually, I heard that some twins DO develop their own language when they're young, and actually sometimes develop speech problems because they're used to speaking their own made-up language with their twin. Of course, I don't know where I read this so don't call me a liar if I'm wrong.
#16
Super naughty, but if we had a history test covering two chapters, I would read one chapter and he would read the other chapter. In the middle of the test, I would get up to sharpen my pencil, and he would go ask the teacher a question, and we would then sit at the others desk and complete the test. We are identical and the teacher couldn’t tell us apart so we never got busted. We both for 5s on the AP test so it obviously didn’t affect our learning too much. And no, we didn’t do this on the AP test.
#17
I have a twin brother but we never did a switcheroo or anything. It’s probably much more mundane than people think. To me he’s just my brother. One great thing though is I don’t have to try to remember the names of random acquaintances because no one remembers ‘which one’ I am.
Lisa Mardak 3 years ago
My husband is a twin & they ALWAYS did the switching thing! Even their jobs (one - Electrical Engineer & the other a Computer Engineer) & NO ONE knew or realized! LOL He would not agree with the mundane thing...
#18
One year in middle school, I ran the mile for my twin sister in gym class. She didn’t want to run and I didn’t mind going again. We swapped outfits after my first mile and I went back out pretending to be her. I remember worrying that the gym teacher would notice and we would get in trouble but they never noticed. Also, borrowing anything from her closet is always nice.
#19
I know of a pair of twins, and when they were younger they developed their "own way of speaking". Not with different words and phrases, but they meshed their words in such a way that they're difficult to understand. They have a sibling who's able to understand most of what they're saying, but is "not fluent", so to speak. Around other people their words don't mesh, but around each other they revert back to their speech patterns.
#20
I have an Identical twin brother. Basically any time there’s a “one per person” limit, I get a second time through with a different sweatshirt. If they say I’ve already gone through, I just say I have a twin brother and talk about how crazy it is that we both went though there without knowing it and show them a picture or two of us. Also a bonus for all places that give freebies for birthdays, I get two free items or orders if he’s out of town or isn’t planning on going to that place
#21
I have a twin sister. We went to the same school, different classes. Sometimes we would want to repeat a class because we felt it necessary for a recap, and so would just swap with each other as our schedules were different . For example if my sister wanted to repeat a language class, she would check with me on my schedule and I would allow her to use my language lesson if I felt I didn’t need it. Or if I didn’t feel like doing PE that day my sister wouldn’t mind putting on her sport clothes and pretending to be me . It was quite handy, like a get out of jail free card. The best scenario was if one of us was late to show up to a meeting. One time I had to present to be her for one of her society meetings in university as she was out of town and forgot about it. She just briefed me on what to do and it went so well it was hilarious. You can feel like a double agent
#22
(English isnt my native language so there may be mistakes) I feel like he understands me in a way no one does. I won't go talk to him about stuff as I would to my best friend, yet he always knows when I am upset and how to cheer me up and make me laugh. We have each others backs no matter what, which really helped us cope with emotional abuse/ neglect from our parents. We always had someone who gets and understands the other on a different level. Also kind of unrelated but is somehow: (Pre covid) me and my brother love movies, we used to go with friends to the premiere of any movie we thought we would like and be able to avoid spoilers and what not. One time my twins friends cancelled on him last moment so he went with me and it became a tradition. We love watching stuff together and nerding over movies.
#23
Identical twin here. Some "twin-isms" that I have taken advantage of: One time I couldn't find my driver's license so I used my identical twin brother's. Who would know better? In high school, my brother's girlfriend came up to me and started rubbing my back. Lucky for her, she figured it out in time... My twin and I did the same degree in college, so having a "built-in" study partner/group member was highly advantageous. Even our family has a hard time telling us apart on the phone, so it's easy to impersonate each other with or without caller ID. On the flipside, there are some caveats to being a twin: In high school, my twin and I worked on a project for the same class completely independently of each other. However, the end products were so similar that the teacher made us redo the entire thing, despite absolutely zero collusion. My twin and I are extremely close and love being twins (it's all we know), but being referred to with each other constantly (e.g. "the twins" or "the last_name twins") has in some ways amplified our want to have unique identities. Wouldn't trade being a twin for anything in the world, though!
Diana 4 years ago
The last point is what makes me hate to be a twin. Sure it was nice to have someone havibg your back through high school bullying but as i am "older" and my sister does everything I do and we are always just seen as "the twins" it is really really hard to feel like your own person. And it is SO hard to have people understand that being twins is not nice or the best sibling experience
#24
I have a twin brother (I’m a girl) and it sucked. We went to the same class for 8 years and shared the same bedroom, shared the same friends and were always compared. I always wished we were one year apart so that we didn’t have to see each other 24 hours a day. When it’s 2 boys or 2 girls it’s different. Those 8 years were hell. He was always mean to me, hit me, wouldn’t let me hang out with “his” friends even though we were all in the same class... We are 22 now. I don’t think there is a single advantage in my case (that doesn’t mean it’s bad). We’re grown up now. The problem was that they made us go to the same class and that made us grow apart. When you’re forced to do something, you want to do that less. They shouldn’t have forced us.
MusicalCatTroll 4 years ago (edited)
In my school twins are made sure that they are never in the same class. Now I sees why
Lorraine R 4 years ago
There was a set of non-identical girl twins in one of my elementary classes. One was a delicate blonde and the other a robust brunette. You would never have even known they were sisters except that they had rhyming names and always dressed alike.
#25
I once got lost at the beach.. Mom took my twin and walked around asking people if they saw someone who looks just like her I believe my parents are the ones who took advantage of the twins thing.. Always getting discounts and such Fun Fact: For some reason people are impressed by identical twins.. They'll usually hand out candies and stuff just cause we looked so cute in our matching outfits
PrincessTheSiameseKat 4 years ago
im a triplet and everyone is so shocked like we're a freak show sometimes
#26
Taught a set of triplets, two of which were identical. One was a jerk, literally stole a kid's money in front of his friends and walked off to buy ice cream with it. When caught out, he tried to claim his parents gave it to him when both his brothers denied getting any ice cream money. The other identical was as sweet as could be, very sensitive and always wanted to help. Nice triplet always got yelled at until someone figured out they got the wrong one. Poor kid always ended up crying over it, while his triplet shrugged and went off to go break rules in whatever area he hadn't been kicked out of.
#27
Yep, this. There was ONE time when I had my brother’s ID so I could pick up a food order he’d paid for with his credit card over the phone, but they didn’t even ask to see it when I got there.
#28
In my high school there was an unusually high number of twins. As in, minimum 3 sets of twins per 90-person class. One class had 6 sets. A common prank was for twins to "switch" classes for a period or day. Most of the time the teachers caught them (they were very used to it), but there were two brothers that always got away with it. They were just too identical in looks, voice, and mannerisms. One of those guys had a crush on me and to this day, I still don't know which one it was lol. All the twins got a special group photo in the yearbook every year, too. Edit: I'll address some common questions here: This was in poor, rural West Michigan. Very few folks in the whole county could afford IVF, so I don't think that's much of a factor. By "90-person class," I mean grade. Like 9th, 10th, 11th grade, etc. This was an average grade size for that high school (the biggest in the county). Again, rural Michigan. To the folks saying I should have given it a shot with one of the twins and taken that 50% chance of getting it right, you're giving a lot of credit to high school SassiestPants.
Deborah B 4 years ago
All these trading places at school stories are weird. In the (NZ) schools I attended, it was always policy that twins be in the same class together, so they couldn't swap. In test situations, only one could leave their seat at a time (no one could move without permission).
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
From Wikipedia, always a great source of information: IVF is a type of assisted reproductive technology used for infertility treatment and gestational surrogacy. A fertilised egg may be implanted into a surrogate's uterus, and the resulting child is genetically unrelated to the surrogate. Some countries have banned or otherwise regulate the availability of IVF treatment, giving rise to fertility tourism. Restrictions on the availability of IVF include costs and age, in order for a woman to carry a healthy pregnancy to term. IVF is generally not used until less invasive or expensive options have failed or been determined unlikely to work.
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#29
Twin here. This questions answers vary vastly based on if they're identical or fraternal. My twin brother and I are fraternal so the main advantage was always having something to do with someone. We are very different personally, so it was more akin to a life long best friend than having a copy of myself walking around.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I met the fraternal twin of a guy a knew. Immediately adored the guy. Later told his brother, "I met (Jeff)! He's nothing like you! I think he's great!
#30
My twin brother is into buying nice fashionable clothes. I'm not. They eventually end up in my wardrobe when he gets new stuff, same size fits all! We could also pool resources and buy friends/family much bigger gifts at Christmas than a normal present, from the both of us. We worked in the same restaurant for a long time and would constantly send each other in to do each other's shifts if we needed a day off, basically decided our own timetable to an extent, boss didn't care as long as one of us showed up. As kids we would have a long pre-arranged list of numbers in our heads if someone asked about twin telepathy, "twin telepathy?! Never heard of it, maybe if I say a number in your ear and you ask my brother what it was". Never really worked... When we went to different universities (in the same city), it was nearly the first time we had significant different groups of friends. Having a classmate ask me "why did you ignore me on the street the other day?!" became a regular occurrence! No pranks or anything, just mundane utilitarian things......
#31
My twin brother and I grew up with a love of pranks and excellent poker faces. Hilarity ensued. We once convinced someone at school that we were cousins that happened to look alike (looking back he probably thought our dad was messing around...) We convinced someone in college that we had never met before orientation and were randomly assigned to the same room (kinda similar to Parent Trap) We turned in each other’s papers and sat in on classes when the other was sick For a year, I pretended to be my brother because I was too shy to admit we were twins. We’d meet up after classes and swap stories of how each other’s friends were doing, and that’s how we kept up with our friends at school until I finally broke the news in sophomore year 🤣
#32
I have a twin! I'm a woman, and he's a man, and by far the most common question I get if I tell someone I have a twin brother is "are you identical?" So, I'd say the greatest advantage is alerting me to people who don't think before they speak. No really, now that we're adults, we are more like close siblings than anything, and we both lead lives in different professions in different states. But when we were kids, I would say the biggest advantage to having a twin is always having a friend and not being alone when the world is scary to a little kid. When I see friends posting pictures of "little X's first day of preschool!" my reaction is always "oh my God, you're sending that three year old into the world alone?!" and then I remember most of you poor sods had do do it all alone, even when it was scary, and it was so nice that we always knew we had a friend. :) We actually opted to be together in classes until 3rd grade despite protests from the school, after which we tried different classes, and from 6th grade we were in different schools altogether. So not like we were joined at the hip for life, just for those formative years.
BlockDog02 4 years ago
Awww, I wish I had a twin, it was kind of hard for me to start school as I barely knew English then and live in Ireland, it would have been way easier if I had a twin or even a sibling 1 year older than me, (small school, so two class classrooms), it would have been way easier.
#33
I'm half of an identical twin. We never really did anything with this fact BUT we agreed to not donate any organs or stuff in case the other one needs it (organs which you can donate and keep living). No search or waiting list for these kind of organs since I've got my twin. We also have other medical search advantages
#34
My grandfather was one of a set of twins, and they were both in the navy together. Didn't get a chance to ask him because he died when I was young, but apparently he sucked at swimming and his brother didn't, so his brother would take his swim tests for him.
#36
My brother and I swapped one day in middle school when the teacher stepped out for a minute. At the end of the class, every one of our classmates were dying laughing and she refused to believe every single person in the room when they told her what was so funny.
#37
Was in Vegas with twins and one had her wallet stolen. How to get thru TSA at the airport to get back home? I went thru security with one twin, took her ID back out to the non secure area, went back thru security with twin 2.
Memere 4 years ago
That wouldn't work now - the name on the ID has to match the name on the boarding pass, and they scan the boarding pass so their system 'knows' who has gone thru.
#38
Ultimately it's so much easier to pretend to be the other person. Advantages my twin and I my twin have done: I've used his driving licence to drive. He has used my ID to get into clubs he was banned from. We can pick up each others parcels and take each others tests. When I got an injury during a sporting tournament I'd sneak off, swop gear and he would play for me. As we got older we played pranks each other friends to see how long it would take for them to realise.
#39
Mainly playing in bands really helped. I played guitar and he played drums. We synced together really well and were able to write some cool stuff together. Being a twin is awesome because you’ll forever have their back and they’ll always do the same for you. Also it was easy to confront other people about grievances because of the amount of times you confronted each other.
JennyBee 4 years ago
"Backstreet Twins" "One Twin-rection" "The Matching Stones"
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#40
It’s hard to talk about “taking advantage” of being a twin because there aren’t really opportunities to do that. I guess people think of the movies where you do pranks and trick people into thinking there is just one of you or something but real life isn’t really like that since even identical twins always look distinguishable to people who know them. One cool thing about having a twin is you are in the same classes together so if you are the irresponsible one and don’t remember what the homework is your twin probably remembers. Also you can have a wider friend group. But that’s all I can think of really.
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TheReader19 4 years ago
It must be really nice having someone whom you can depend on. The only negative thing I've ever found with twins is when adult twins still dress alike. This freaks me out ; and now the down voting begins
CheshireMitsu 4 years ago
at +3 upvotes, and yesm adultos twins dressing the same really is creepy!
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Hermitbunny 4 years ago
As an identical twin this list makes me feel weird. I haven't met other twins so I really don't know, but to me it's just like having a regular sibling. I think the thing is you're the same age, so it's more likely you'll like similar things. It's not nice to grow up with someone who looks exactly like you, you become a thing to be gawked at and compared, not just two separate individual people. There's no psychic link, we just liked a lot of the same things and got along well for a while. There was no special bond, no more special than regular siblings can be anyway.
SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
That's what I'm thinking too, the list was "hidden perks of having a twin" not "all aspects of having a twin" so I think people were romanticizing it a bit. Having a twin doesn't create an exclusive bond that no one else has, 99% of the time they're exactly like any other sibling and there are still ups and downs in the relationship.
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howdylee 4 years ago
As a parent of young identical girls, question to the older twins out there... do you think it's better to be in the same kindergarten (and possibly beyond) class, or in separate classes? How do YOU feel about it as a twin?
Cookie Monster 4 years ago
I am a twin and I have always been in the same class as my sister. We were separated in first grade, just one class apart, but we were traveling between classes every few hours to say Hi to the other twin and make sure they were ok. Also, being in the same class means the same homework, the same teacher, and the same projects. As in, One class may be on a different math lesson than the other classes, and trying to help your children understand 2 different lessons at once, could be hard. I hope I helped! 😊
Load More Replies... Cookie Monster 4 years ago
I have a twin, and it's one of the best things ever. I love having a bestie to always depend on whenever.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
I work with a set of twins. They're almost identical but when I first started working with them no one told me they were twins (they work in a different section than me but I'd see one of them about) or even that we had twins working here. I got fairly friendly with one of them and we shared a love of heavy metal music and talked about that a few times. However I noticed he'd be hot and cold with me. Some days we'd say 'hello' to each other and other days he'd just blank me and ignore me. I'd been working there a year before anyone told me that his brother worked here and not only that he was a twin! Turns out we have more twins working for us than we knew too although they're the only set who both work here. We have 5 other people who work here who have a twin working elsewhere.
Crochet lady 4 years ago
My identical twin sons were about 4 years old, holding hands and walking along, chatting. A little girl was approaching us, maybe 5 or 6 and I could see her looking at them, doing a dramatic double take. She ran right up to them, studied them for a quick second and let out a shriek and said " Mommy, they have the same face!!! She was completely horrified, must have felt like she was in a horror movie, the poor girl.
AnnaB 4 years ago
I lost my identical twin to cancer in 2011. She was the other half of me. I'll never stop missing her.
Mz Phit 4 years ago
One drawback of identical twindom in the intimacy department - in college I had a massive crush on an identical twin but I was too worried about disclosing my adoration to the other twin by mistake . The twin I was crushing on was a scowling introvert (just my type), who was crushing too, but couldn't approach me (I was a slightly intimidating artpunk ) so we ended up with an unrequited romance... sullenly smoldering silently separated by shyness
TheReader19 4 years ago
It must be really nice having someone whom you can depend on. The only negative thing I've ever found with twins is when adult twins still dress alike. This freaks me out ; and now the down voting begins
CheshireMitsu 4 years ago
at +3 upvotes, and yesm adultos twins dressing the same really is creepy!
Load More Replies... Hermitbunny 4 years ago
As an identical twin this list makes me feel weird. I haven't met other twins so I really don't know, but to me it's just like having a regular sibling. I think the thing is you're the same age, so it's more likely you'll like similar things. It's not nice to grow up with someone who looks exactly like you, you become a thing to be gawked at and compared, not just two separate individual people. There's no psychic link, we just liked a lot of the same things and got along well for a while. There was no special bond, no more special than regular siblings can be anyway.
SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
That's what I'm thinking too, the list was "hidden perks of having a twin" not "all aspects of having a twin" so I think people were romanticizing it a bit. Having a twin doesn't create an exclusive bond that no one else has, 99% of the time they're exactly like any other sibling and there are still ups and downs in the relationship.
Load More Replies... howdylee 4 years ago
As a parent of young identical girls, question to the older twins out there... do you think it's better to be in the same kindergarten (and possibly beyond) class, or in separate classes? How do YOU feel about it as a twin?
Cookie Monster 4 years ago
I am a twin and I have always been in the same class as my sister. We were separated in first grade, just one class apart, but we were traveling between classes every few hours to say Hi to the other twin and make sure they were ok. Also, being in the same class means the same homework, the same teacher, and the same projects. As in, One class may be on a different math lesson than the other classes, and trying to help your children understand 2 different lessons at once, could be hard. I hope I helped! 😊
Load More Replies... Cookie Monster 4 years ago
I have a twin, and it's one of the best things ever. I love having a bestie to always depend on whenever.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
I work with a set of twins. They're almost identical but when I first started working with them no one told me they were twins (they work in a different section than me but I'd see one of them about) or even that we had twins working here. I got fairly friendly with one of them and we shared a love of heavy metal music and talked about that a few times. However I noticed he'd be hot and cold with me. Some days we'd say 'hello' to each other and other days he'd just blank me and ignore me. I'd been working there a year before anyone told me that his brother worked here and not only that he was a twin! Turns out we have more twins working for us than we knew too although they're the only set who both work here. We have 5 other people who work here who have a twin working elsewhere.
Crochet lady 4 years ago
My identical twin sons were about 4 years old, holding hands and walking along, chatting. A little girl was approaching us, maybe 5 or 6 and I could see her looking at them, doing a dramatic double take. She ran right up to them, studied them for a quick second and let out a shriek and said " Mommy, they have the same face!!! She was completely horrified, must have felt like she was in a horror movie, the poor girl.
AnnaB 4 years ago
I lost my identical twin to cancer in 2011. She was the other half of me. I'll never stop missing her.
Mz Phit 4 years ago
One drawback of identical twindom in the intimacy department - in college I had a massive crush on an identical twin but I was too worried about disclosing my adoration to the other twin by mistake . The twin I was crushing on was a scowling introvert (just my type), who was crushing too, but couldn't approach me (I was a slightly intimidating artpunk ) so we ended up with an unrequited romance... sullenly smoldering silently separated by shyness
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