+119 Twins: When people find out about your sibling and ask, "What's it like to be a twin?" it annoys you. How are you supposed to answer that if you can't compare it with the experience of a single birth, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

or triplets

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This is true, for any situation. Like, I get people ask "What's it like in Australia?" - I only really have New Zealand for comparison. Also, I was reading a list of dumb questions twins get asked, and one of them was "Do you ever forget which twin you are?"

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ahaha what? That's ridiculous!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'll try and find it. Have the questions were retarded, and I'm not even a twin and I know that.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

http://multiples.about.com/od/familyissues/tp/aatpquestions.htm http://www.raising-twins.com/stupid-twin-questions.html http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/twins/annoying_twin_questions.html These pages were more about questions mothers of twin babies get asked, then the one I was reading about questions adult twins get asked.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Thanks, bro. Those are so dumb. It's really annoying when people say you don't look like twins. Fraternal twins are just siblings born at the same time.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah, I think the word "identical" confuses people, because in a language sense it means appearances, like if two apples were identical, but in the biological sense, it means one egg was split as opposed to two eggs fertilised, and that twins being identical or fraternal as nothing to do with looks. I think identical twins sometimes do look more different, because the egg very rarely splits evenly, which is why one may be significantly larger than the other.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That is true. You're a smart guy.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

THANK YOU! I hate when people ask my twin sister & I if we are fraternal. When I say we are identical they always give me a weird look because we don't look exactly alike.

by Anonymous 14 years ago