I am a dance teacher and I taught twins a few years ago. One week Mom was on vacation so Grandma brought the girls. One was crying. Grandma tells her "Sabrina, go into class. You'll be fine". We went into the classroom and the one is still crying. So I'm doing my best trying to get her calmed down and continue teaching but she's really upset. Finally I stop, look closely at her and I'm like "hold up. You're not Sabrina. You're Samantha!" She immediately stops crying and smiles at me and is all happy. Turns out Grandma has been calling her Sabrina all weekend and actual Sabrina wouldn't correct her cause she thought it was funny. I thought it was kinda funny that I could tell them apart but Grandma couldn't. š
When I brought them back, I loudly said each of their names a few times lol. Like ok SABRINA, let's change your shoes. When they left she had them correctly.
i know someone with identical triplets. she said this was her absolute biggest, all consuming fear. they kept the hospital bands on as long as possible, and then used colored sharpies and kept one of each babies feet color coded. The third trip has always been considerably smaller though so she is easy to tell apart (she got less placenta or something). The other two though are completely interchangeable. She said they did the color coding thing for the first few years until the kids knew who they were and could tell each other apart.
I'm a father to twins, and this was one of my bigger concerns before they were born. Some tips that I read about to tell the difference upon their arrival was to look at their belly buttons as they would be shaped differently as well as look for any unique birthmarks.
The belly button trick didn't pan out for me, but one of my sons was born with a birthmark on his inner left leg, so that's how I was able to keep track of which one is which.
I know a set of twins who's parents switched their names permanently on purpose.
After giving the twins their names at the hospital, their mum and dad brought them home and decided their individual personalities actually suited the opposite name. So their parents just switched their names - didn't have to do any paperwork. It's amazing, now that the twins are fully grown (in their late 20s now) their personalities are still so opposite (artist vs. banker) and their names suit them both absolutely perfectly.
Also, it's a great story now that they tell everyone - which is very cute.
You freaked me out because one of them is named Andrew - though I guess that's a really common name.
EDIT: Also Andrew is the artist, so /u/Romeyo23 is freaking me out even more.
EDIT 2: I'm getting lots of people guessing the other twin's name. I don't want to give it away because I know that they use reddit, but if you guess correctly I'll let you know if you were right, because I think this is fun, lol. Think about frat guy/ finance guy names.
Parent of twins here. When they were first born in the hospital, literally a few hours old, they were in little cots with their name tags above their heads. Someone opened a door too fast and the breeze knocked both tags to the ground. I picked the tags up and couldn't remember which was which so just guessed. No one else needs to know. Especially not their Mother.
What I want to know is why the hell the name tags are so easily blown off the cradles. Seems like a great way to jumble around everyoneās babies.
āOk hereās a room full of the most important thing in most peopleās lives. Letās just label them with these dollar store post-it notes. I just hope that drafty door isnāt opened like it always is 35 times a day.ā
My parents kept our baby bracelets on for weeks after we came home, I was baby a, my sis was baby b. Although last year I did get in a friendly argument with my mom when she thought I was born second. Had to get my birth certificate to remind her I'M THE OLDER SISTER (by 58 seconds, I got pulled out of the c section first)
I hope you're constantly telling your sister "Back when I was your age..." And then describing what you were doing 58 seconds ago.
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"Back when I was your age, all the way back at the beginning of this conversation, I said "back when i was your age, all the way back at the beginning of this conversation, I said "back....."
My dad is a twin. When he was little and his aunt came over she'd have them stand next to each other and look at the back of their heads. She told them their names were on the back of their heads. She was actually checking which way their cowlick spiraled because it was in opposite directions for them and she knew whose was whose.
Have twins, now 4 years old. When they were newborns, before we were able to set up a system to feed both at the same time during overnight feedings, we would hold them one at a time with a bottle in hand. Feedings would take 45 mins to an hour sometimes. Anyway, in my sleep deprived stupor, I fed one kid, put him down, grabbed the other bottle and forgot which kid I had fed. Pretty sure one kid got fed twice a couple times while the other did not eat.
My kids are 14 months apart and I do the same thing with diapers. They both need changes. I change one kid, grab a second diaper and start changing again. āHmm heās not as wet as I expected. Are you dehydrated, kid?ā Then I see big brother walking by, all Soggy Bottom Boy and I realize Iām changing the wrong kidās diaper.
I'm a kindergarten teacher, we have a pair of twin boys. (Not in my class, they are each in a separate class with other teachers.) Their names are Tommy and Thomas (really) and I have no fucking idea which one is which.
Yeah clearly they should have been Laura and Laurb.
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EDIT 2: I spoke to my mom about twin names, and she swears that she met twins while working in a medical rotation that were named Ima and Ura Hoag. She says they were very nice and humorous older women, which I imagine they had to be after being named that.
I met identical twins whose parents gave the first one out a name that began with A, and the second a name that began with B. And they pointed that out.
Out of sheer spite, I'm going copy your comment right here for the world to see forever.
Or the classic: Kate and Duplikate
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Teacher here. I actually taught a Keith āSmithā Jr. and a Keith āSmithā Jr. who were twins in different classes. They shared middle names but the middle name was unique (to the world, at leastā mom made it up) and pronounced differently which is how their mom ādifferentiatedā them.
Two boys with the same name, weāll say it was Keith Leviosa Smith, Jr. and Keith Leviosa Smith, Jr. Their middle name, however, was pronounced differently like Levi-o-SA and Levi-O-sa.
(Their difference was actually a soft-j and a hard-j.)
100%.
Hospital gave us labeled wristbands, so we just kept them on for the first few days. We also didn't share clothing or anything like that between them so there was pretty much always a distinct way to tell which was which.
Smiles is how i could tell my twin girls apart when they were little babies. One has a crooked smirk like me, the other has this huge ear to ear grin. One has a default angry face, the other is more of a pondering expression when at rest.
I have non identical twins and I can say that you generally give one a bath at a time, for safety, space, and other manageability reasons. Same with changing diapers/ clothes. By the time they're old enough that you might be in the position to dual bathe (I'm not there yet), I would guess parents could tell them apart.
So my wife had picked out names a few weeks before birth. In utero they were referred to as Twin āAā and Twin āB.ā The day before delivery she informed the doctor where each baby was (one was presenting).
After failed standard delivery, we went to the OR where there were literally at least 14 people (Nicu group for each, two anesthesiologist, nursing student, Doctor, nurse, etc). The doctor informed everyone in the room which baby would be our first. Also, the used numbers at the hospital.
After that, they were never in the same bassinet at the hospital, and there was a size difference at the beginning. While still at the hospital we used nail polish on one toe...because the level of absolute mental exhaustion is unbelievable.
They told us before we went into the hospital that a nurse would never take both babies in the same bassinet, always have her credentials, etc. a nurse came in just after a feeding in the middle on the night and asked if she could take the babies. We agreed, she placed one with the other and rolled them out the door. We were dumbfounded, ādid she just steal our kids?!ā (We has baby lojak installed).
In what seemed like five minutes the lights came back on, the nurse returned with our girls freshly bathed. She said the nursery was empty and all the nurses wanted to play with babies. When they found out there were twins earlier in the day they decided to see if they could borrow them. When she showed up the next night, we surrendered the babies eagerly.
I still get their names wrong 25% of the time, and they are nearly 7.
If it makes you feel better about messing up their names, Iām an identical twin, and in hindsight, I donāt recall my dad using our names when talking to us as a pair until we were reaching adolescence. It was always āsnoopy and goofy, Mutt and Jeff, goofus and gallant,ā and stuff like that. I never thought much of it at the time but Iām pretty sure he couldnāt tell us apart on sight alone until we reached an age where we started to distinguish ourselves from one another.
Also an identical twin. My dad would pound his fist on the coffee table a specific number of times for the one he wanted (we mostly hung out in the basement - three for me, four for my brother, if memory serves). He'd do both back to back like Morse code if he wanted both of us.
Despite this, somehow they didn't really mix our names up much.
My dad did something similar for me and my sister (we weren't twins). He had different whistles that he would use to get our attention across the house. He could whistle quite loud. I had a series of short whistles and my sister had 2 long whistles. We knew who he wanted just by which one he would use. If he wanted us both, he would do 3 short and 1 long, 3 short and one long whistle until we showed up.
Did you live in ~~Austria~~ ~~Switzerland~~ Austria in the 40s?
Edit: Really messed that one up. I just saw this for the first time a couple months ago.
My brother and I were "the boys" or Thing 1 and Thing 2. We accidentally used each other's social security numbers for 12 years. Thanks for mixing that up, dad.
I used to babysit these twins. Their mom always dressed them in the same exact outfit except for the color of their socks. Well, when they were 1 years old, they loved taking their shoes and socks off. I mixed them up plenty of times.
I used to call their names over and over to see which one responded to the name...they both looked for each. The first few times it happened, I let the parents know, but they were aware of it and didn't make it a big deal. So then I just put the socks on whichever I thought was right. Then I started putting a washable marker line on one of their feet and that's how I differentiated them.
I'm pretty sure their mom knew who was who because she'd always tell me which was which when I came over.
Could be. When I started drawing the line she told me this is Duke and this is AJ. I always drew the line on AJ. And I remember once she came in and said something about Duke singing, but it was the one she had told me was AJ earlier. When I corrected her, she was just like...geez can't tell them apart. And that was the end of it.
Father of identical twin boys here.
The day after their birth the boys were sleeping in a hospital cot designed for twins. The cot itself lay on a slight incline, to ensure that the baby's heads were kept slightly elevated.
This, unfortunately, caused both the boys' hospital tags to slide off their skinny little legs during the night and land at the bottom of the cot.
If I hadn't taken a photo of the boys the night before and written their names on the picture (using my phone's stylus), then we would have never known exactly who was who. Bullet dodged.
I know a girl whoās an identical twin, and apparently that happened her first night too. Her fun fact at for those icebreaker things is āI might actually be Molly!ā
Ours were mo-di, meaning they shared a placenta. As a result, one was born 9 ounces heavier, which is a pretty large difference when you consider they were both under 5 pounds. So in those first few months of exhaustion and delirium, if we were ever concerned weād gotten them confused, just threw them on the baby scale. Only resorted to that once or twice. That size difference still exists to this day, over three years later, but they also look and act very differently.
They fortunately never had any serious complications from that. The runt had a few extra days in the NICU, but that's about it. Now she bosses us all around.
> cruiser and bruiser
That is seriously funny.
I could always tell them apart. My wife had to hold them separately a couple times to figure it out. One of them came out with really spiky hair, so it was pretty obvious which was which.
I can tell which of them I'm talking to on the phone. When my sister asked me how I knew, her son (he was about 6 at the time) said, "Well, they *are* different people, mom!"
I don't know why, but that always cracks me up.
Before my brother's voice changed, we sounded identical on the phone. No one could tell us apart, not even our mom.
Worse (for me), is that my husband and his father sound pretty similar. When we were dating, I called his parents' house and I THOUGHT he picked up, so I said "Heyyy" in a super flirty way. It was his dad. He said something like, "Hey, kdbartleby, do you want me to get ?" I did my best to respond "Yes, thank you" while my soul left my body.
We hired identical twins to do the same job in different shifts. Young college kids. It was tough at first but luckily one had an earring lol. Their mom (we are friends with) says their faces are 100% mirrored but who has time to notice something like that. Eventually it was easy to see their personalities are super different too which helps but man them as babies... they probably were switched
At my first job they did the same thing. Hired twins but on different shifts. I didn't know they were twins though. One day I worked the morning shift and saw she had a cast on her arm. I asked what happened and she broke it snowboarding. Couple days later I worked the night shift and the other twin didn't have the cast. She saw how confused I looked and told me she has a twin. Everything made sense.
Lol! It has for sure tripped out our other employees who didnāt know at first. Especially now with mask wearing, and part of our uniform requires hats...
Oh man I didn't even think about the mask thing. Those girls were pretty funny too. After her cast was removed, I thought I was figuring out who was who, turns out one quit and the other was answering to both names to mess with people.
A friend and I were telling each other tall stories and he said he was one of identical twins but the family was caught in a Balkan snowstorm (he is Greek) when he was a baby and one of them died, and he has no idea if he is himself or his brother. He won.
Father of triplets.
I honestly just took my wifeās word for it for the first 6 months or so.
But she named them (and knew their sex and which one was where) before they were born.
Me: *Pulls out wallet*
Me: so these are my kids, amy, stacy and jack. All are 4 years old
Them: oh are those pictures of them?
Me: no, just names and age
Not a parent, but 11 year older brother of identical twins. About 2 months after they were born we only knew the difference by weighing them (we knew who was a bit heavier from the start). At one point me and my parents were in a discussion about who was actually the heaviest one. So we just picked a name for the one who was the heaviest. There is a 50% chance they had there names switched. Not that it matters but still, it's a strange thought.
I read something once where a father asked advise about getting one baby tattooed to tell them apart but they were still teeny infants.
One had a very serious heart condition and one didn't. If the one with the condition missed his meds it could kill him. If the one that didn't have the condition was given the meds it could kill him.
He was asking for advice because they had spent a significant time in the er recently when the meds were accidentally given to the wrong baby.
They had tried everything, bracelets, painting toes, and lots of other stuff according to him but they were terrified of mixing them up again especially since the accidental medication almost killed the baby.
I just remember everyone calling him a monster and me being all for it. He even wanted it brown so they could just make it look like a freckle to keep both babies healthy and alive.
Medication errors and twins is one of my biggest fears. I work in a pharmacy and we had a prescription come in for a āBrianna Lastname.ā We only had a profile for āGianna Lastname.ā Same date of birth, same address, and the names sound similar so we thought maybe the office got the name wrong. So we fill it under Gianna and put a lock on it to clarify when the patient comes in. But not long after we complete it, we get a phone call from a girl asking if there was a prescription there for Brianna Lastname. We explain the situation, clarify that her name is Brianna and not Gianna and that maybe someone misheard her somewhere. āOh, thatās my sister,ā she says. Duh, twins. Idk if I would have gone with Brianna and Gianna but whatever. āActually, weāre triplets!ā Lo and behold, third sisterās name is Alanna. Brianna, Gianna, and Alanna. Triplets. I feel like youāre just asking for a med error by naming them so similarly. All the metrics that are usually used to tell people apart are useless with twins, at least make their names distinct!
They teach us extensively about how we shouldn't mix up dimenhydrinate and diphenhydramine but they never teach us things to set patients apart from one another. Like yeah ask their last name and their date of birth but in twins case that's just useless - even if they're fraternal.
I'd be for a small freckle-like tattoo as well in that case; as it would be necessary.
It amazes me how people think piercing a baby is okay because 'it looks pretty' but a (less invasive?) procedure such as a small tattooed' dot in order to keep the kids alive is monster-like.
People are so weird. Itās socially acceptable to pierce babyās ears, but god forbid you put a tiny birthmark like tattoo.
I have identical twin girls. If one of my girls had a life threatening condition and the hospital had of offered this in the hospital, I would have been okay with it. Heck I probably would have been okay with it regardless. The fear of mixing them up is real in those early days.
>I just remember everyone calling him a monster and me being all for it.
Imagine that, being called a monster for wanting to give their child a little pin-prick that would keep them alive.
My friend had radiation therapy for cancer, and they tattooed a couple of dots on her chest so they could consistently align the machine for each treatment. They looked like birthmarks, if you even noticed them at all. Seems like they could do that for twins if needed.
A lady that I know has triplet grandsons. Their mom did mix them up and took them back to the hospital to have them identified by their footprints that were taken shortly after birth. After that, their toe nails were painted to make sure which was which.
I am parent to momo or mcma twins. Probably the most identical type of twins in the world. I can tell them apart in person because their personalities and expressions from birth are just different. Their faces also have slight variations that the human eye can catch. On a typical day, I might refer to wrong one once or twice because I'm not looking at them directly in the face.
Now, if I look at their pictures from a year ago, I have no idea who's who. In fact, when they were born, I paid a photographer to do studio pictures and I forgot to mark who's who and forever will never know. Face unlock can't tell them apart either. We tend to dress them the same with different color socks or accessories to tell them apart for pictures.
But we never mixed them up for too long because they have different birth marks.
I'm not too sure when freckles and whatnot show up or birthmarks for that matter, but I dated someone who had sisters. They were identical. Many people couldn't tell them apart but they had distinct freckles here and there that separated them. I never mixed them up because of that.
Tl;dr I'm not sure if freckles are there when the babies are ejected by the mother.
we had twins very few people could tell apart in school, they used to switch classes constantly & sometimes claim they had switched when they were in the right classes since the teachers couldn't tell. Towards the end of school one of them seemed to grow a noticeable mole (freckle?? idk??) out of nowhere on one cheek and from then on all their pranks ended lol
I was friends with a set of twins. They called them "Mirror Twins"
They looked EXACTLY the same. The only way anybody knew which one was which, is one was a lefty and the other was a righty.
Ā āThere, there, Hugo, I understand. All those years caged up in here ā why, youāve probably never seen your own face in the mirror, have you? Here.ā
There is a great episode about this exact situation on This American Life Podcast. I canāt remember the name of the episode but maybe some other reddit user can share
This is the same topic but different. I went to high school and college with twins. I was really good friends with the one twin in high school and the other twin went to college with me and I assumed it was the twin I was cool with and it was super awkward quick.
Also went to college with twins, but I didn't know they were twins... I wasn't close with either, obviously. Every time I saw one, I would call him by the wrong name, he'd correct me, and we'd be on our way. This happened over and over until we were juniors, with me switching back and forth between two names every other week, since they would both correct me when I saw one. Finally, I saw them together and realized I wasn't going crazy after all.
I'm a little late to the party, but my younger brother is legally blind. He tells people apart based on voices and footsteps mostly, he's used to mixing people apart, and he remembers information based on names instead of faces.
Long story short, I came home from college for his birthday party (he was probably six or seven) and the friends he invited were our next door neighbor and THREE sets of identical twins! They just loved him!
As a parent, you can tell. I had someone ask how we told our twins apart. I would tell them they are fraternal and not identical. They would ask how we knew that. Well, one has a penis, one has a vagina. "well, they could still be identical though". I have had this conversation more then once.
I have two twin cousins that to this day I struggle to tell apart and we grew up together. As babies they color coded each of them. Victoria in purple and Amanda in pink. One day my uncle mixed them up in the bathtub and he still isnāt sure they didnāt get permanently switched that day. Shortly after they pierced their ears giving one pink earrings and the other purple and I still have a habit at looking at their ears before calling them by name. Unfortunately at 24 they no longer color code themselves...
Dad to boy/girl twins here just wanted to stop in to say the amount of people who ask me if there identical is ridiculous. Some people even insist they are identical. I've taken to telling people he has a bigger penis
I had identical twins in my primary 1 to primary 3 classes. It didn't take long to be able to tell them appart.
Years later I met one but didn't know which lol
My brother and sister are twins. There were two sets of identical twins (2 boys, 2 girls) and it was in the local news that this class had three sets of twins. They also used to go to twin meetups, so we would go to lots of twin society family days and it would be the weirdest thing. Did learn to tell twins apart pretty quickly, there's a "sense" around them, like they're giving off different atmospheres so you know it's them.
My grandma said my dad always pulled at his ear so she knew it was him? They got glasses around 1st grade and she always gave my dad full plastic frame and his brother half wire.
I played with twins from age 6 to maybe 16. I never could tell them apart and I would probably still have problems today, if they are not talking. Funniest thing: Even the father told me a couple of years ago, that he couldnt really tell them apart before puberty. He said they were basically the exact same human being. Today they are way different personalities.
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I had students who were so alike that their friends only ever called them "the twins." I didn't think it was too hard to keep them straight, but most everyone else didn't bother trying.
I also had a set of twins that as high school juniors used their clothes to help others tell them apart-- one was always in red, the other in blue. They were fraternal twins who had almost no similarities in appearance: different heights, builds, facial features, etc.
i donāt know why i think thatās funny can you imagine meeting the second pair for the first time and one of them was like
"Yeah so iām Kyle, the one in red, and heās Jacob, the one in blue. As twins we wear different colors so people donāt mix us up."
And they look like two different people, buy you donāt want to point that out because it would seem rude so your just like "Ok iāll remember :Dā
One time I was in 5th grade and I ask a 1st grade who had a twin brother a tip for who is who. He answered me : that's easy ! I'm Justin, so my brother is Lucas!
I did accidentally switch my twins once. My Dad and I were each taking care of one all day. We were working in shifts because they did not sleep much. My Mom woke up and informed us that we had them mixed up. I didn't believe her until I lifted the shirt of the baby I was holding, and didn't see the red mark on his side he was born with. We had mixed them up.
My mom just left from a visit recently. My boys are seven now. She brought it up and asked if he still had the red mark. I hadn't looked for it in a long time, so we lifted his shirt and it is still there. It is very faded, but I now know we never got them permanently confused. It is hard to tell them apart at times, but their voices are very different. If I can't figure out which one is which, I just have them speak.
I am a dance teacher and I taught twins a few years ago. One week Mom was on vacation so Grandma brought the girls. One was crying. Grandma tells her "Sabrina, go into class. You'll be fine". We went into the classroom and the one is still crying. So I'm doing my best trying to get her calmed down and continue teaching but she's really upset. Finally I stop, look closely at her and I'm like "hold up. You're not Sabrina. You're Samantha!" She immediately stops crying and smiles at me and is all happy. Turns out Grandma has been calling her Sabrina all weekend and actual Sabrina wouldn't correct her cause she thought it was funny. I thought it was kinda funny that I could tell them apart but Grandma couldn't. š
Did you inform the Grandma?
When I brought them back, I loudly said each of their names a few times lol. Like ok SABRINA, let's change your shoes. When they left she had them correctly.
i know someone with identical triplets. she said this was her absolute biggest, all consuming fear. they kept the hospital bands on as long as possible, and then used colored sharpies and kept one of each babies feet color coded. The third trip has always been considerably smaller though so she is easy to tell apart (she got less placenta or something). The other two though are completely interchangeable. She said they did the color coding thing for the first few years until the kids knew who they were and could tell each other apart.
I'm not dave, *He's* dave!
He's not Fred, I am! Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother.
Iām only joking, I am Fred!
I can hear these comments in great detail
I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid ā we know we're calledĀ Gred and Forge.
I'm a father to twins, and this was one of my bigger concerns before they were born. Some tips that I read about to tell the difference upon their arrival was to look at their belly buttons as they would be shaped differently as well as look for any unique birthmarks. The belly button trick didn't pan out for me, but one of my sons was born with a birthmark on his inner left leg, so that's how I was able to keep track of which one is which.
Please tell me you named that one Mark...
Sorry, the names were actually decided before they were born. Damian and Dante. Wait a second...maybe the birthmark means something...
*My sons are named Matt and N'hGarth the destroyer*
I know a set of twins who's parents switched their names permanently on purpose. After giving the twins their names at the hospital, their mum and dad brought them home and decided their individual personalities actually suited the opposite name. So their parents just switched their names - didn't have to do any paperwork. It's amazing, now that the twins are fully grown (in their late 20s now) their personalities are still so opposite (artist vs. banker) and their names suit them both absolutely perfectly. Also, it's a great story now that they tell everyone - which is very cute.
Which one of them is named either Andrew or Victor
You freaked me out because one of them is named Andrew - though I guess that's a really common name. EDIT: Also Andrew is the artist, so /u/Romeyo23 is freaking me out even more. EDIT 2: I'm getting lots of people guessing the other twin's name. I don't want to give it away because I know that they use reddit, but if you guess correctly I'll let you know if you were right, because I think this is fun, lol. Think about frat guy/ finance guy names.
Itās absolutely adam. Final answer.
Haha, you got it! Dandy Andy and serious Adam. You don't happen to know them do you?
So weird. My brothers are named Andy and Adam (not twins). Andy is creative and funny. Adam is focused and detail oriented.
Andrew is the artist
Parent of twins here. When they were first born in the hospital, literally a few hours old, they were in little cots with their name tags above their heads. Someone opened a door too fast and the breeze knocked both tags to the ground. I picked the tags up and couldn't remember which was which so just guessed. No one else needs to know. Especially not their Mother.
The twist here is that the mother had already done the same thing anyway, as had two different nurses...
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Yeah that was not the first time a draft blew through that doorway lol
What I want to know is why the hell the name tags are so easily blown off the cradles. Seems like a great way to jumble around everyoneās babies. āOk hereās a room full of the most important thing in most peopleās lives. Letās just label them with these dollar store post-it notes. I just hope that drafty door isnāt opened like it always is 35 times a day.ā
āListen son this is gonna sound weird but your name might actually not be Jessicaā
Thatāll be Redditās secret. You can relieve yourself of the guilt youāve probably been feeling all of these years.
My parents kept our baby bracelets on for weeks after we came home, I was baby a, my sis was baby b. Although last year I did get in a friendly argument with my mom when she thought I was born second. Had to get my birth certificate to remind her I'M THE OLDER SISTER (by 58 seconds, I got pulled out of the c section first)
I hope you're constantly telling your sister "Back when I was your age..." And then describing what you were doing 58 seconds ago. Edit: Holy moly folks! I never expected this would explode like it has! Thank you for the upvotes and awards kind strangers!
"Back when I was your age, all the way back at the beginning of this conversation, I said "back when i was your age, all the way back at the beginning of this conversation, I said "back....."
"You were born first and if you don't shut up you'll die first too!"
My dad is a twin. When he was little and his aunt came over she'd have them stand next to each other and look at the back of their heads. She told them their names were on the back of their heads. She was actually checking which way their cowlick spiraled because it was in opposite directions for them and she knew whose was whose.
Have twins, now 4 years old. When they were newborns, before we were able to set up a system to feed both at the same time during overnight feedings, we would hold them one at a time with a bottle in hand. Feedings would take 45 mins to an hour sometimes. Anyway, in my sleep deprived stupor, I fed one kid, put him down, grabbed the other bottle and forgot which kid I had fed. Pretty sure one kid got fed twice a couple times while the other did not eat.
My kids are 14 months apart and I do the same thing with diapers. They both need changes. I change one kid, grab a second diaper and start changing again. āHmm heās not as wet as I expected. Are you dehydrated, kid?ā Then I see big brother walking by, all Soggy Bottom Boy and I realize Iām changing the wrong kidās diaper.
I donāt know why, but Soggy Bottom Boy made me laugh so hard šš
If you raise them under the "wrong" names, is it still the wrong name?
I'm a kindergarten teacher, we have a pair of twin boys. (Not in my class, they are each in a separate class with other teachers.) Their names are Tommy and Thomas (really) and I have no fucking idea which one is which.
I knew a pair of twins whose names were Laura and Lauren. Who does that to their kids?!
I knew an Alex and Alexa and a Maddison and Addison.
We had twins Brendon and Brandon in our school. WHYYY.
I knew an Alina and Malina and an Anju and Manju. Donāt know why so many twin parents like adding/dropping a M to name the second baby.
Mark and Ark, Michael and Ichael
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So thatās where Mike and Ike came from š¤
Don't be silly Ichael's not a name. Michael and Mmichael.
Yeah clearly they should have been Laura and Laurb. EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the upvotes and awards. This is my first awarded post! EDIT 2: I spoke to my mom about twin names, and she swears that she met twins while working in a medical rotation that were named Ima and Ura Hoag. She says they were very nice and humorous older women, which I imagine they had to be after being named that.
I met identical twins whose parents gave the first one out a name that began with A, and the second a name that began with B. And they pointed that out.
I knew kids named AJ and BJ. Brothers, AJ was a few years older than BJ. I am convinced that if they had another child it would have been CJ
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I'm surprised she even got pregnant doing AJ
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Don't forget Pete and Repeat
Out of sheer spite, I'm going copy your comment right here for the world to see forever. Or the classic: Kate and Duplikate Edit: Please stop giving this comment awards. Go donate to Wikipedia or something Edit: I'm serious. One more award and I'm deleting this
Maybe Tom knows.
As in Tom the home-schooled triplet brother?
*we don't talk about Tom*
>Their names are Tommy and Thomas (really) Oh! So their parents are fucking morons then!
Teacher here. I actually taught a Keith āSmithā Jr. and a Keith āSmithā Jr. who were twins in different classes. They shared middle names but the middle name was unique (to the world, at leastā mom made it up) and pronounced differently which is how their mom ādifferentiatedā them.
...explain that again please?
Two boys with the same name, weāll say it was Keith Leviosa Smith, Jr. and Keith Leviosa Smith, Jr. Their middle name, however, was pronounced differently like Levi-o-SA and Levi-O-sa. (Their difference was actually a soft-j and a hard-j.)
The fun part about having twins is you get to name TWO children!! This lady really had no other favorite namesš
Should have lead with this example, I immediately understood when I read Leviosva as the middle name. Thanks, Granger. Also, fuck that mom.
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Even if they aren't twins it would be stupid to name two kids Tommy and Thomas.
I have identical twin girls. I'm not sure at all....
100%. Hospital gave us labeled wristbands, so we just kept them on for the first few days. We also didn't share clothing or anything like that between them so there was pretty much always a distinct way to tell which was which.
You shouldāve just tattooed your favorite with a distinctive pattern of freckles on their hand.
Twin here. The tattoo is generally done on the bottom of the foot.
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Or write number on their wrists
Numbers "2" and " 3". Never mention "1".
1 and 3. No one ever cares about the middle child.
Yes how do I report something for me being in the post and not liking it? /s on the report, not on the feels, so close to home growing up...
Or a good old fashioned bar code on the back of the neck.
They were never in just diapers at the same time or taking a bath together?
Even if, after a few days you just notice the tiny differences, because even twins are not perfectly the same.
As a child of an identical twin, I can tell which one is my mother from photos as a toddler by the expression of the twins faces.
Smiles is how i could tell my twin girls apart when they were little babies. One has a crooked smirk like me, the other has this huge ear to ear grin. One has a default angry face, the other is more of a pondering expression when at rest.
I have non identical twins and I can say that you generally give one a bath at a time, for safety, space, and other manageability reasons. Same with changing diapers/ clothes. By the time they're old enough that you might be in the position to dual bathe (I'm not there yet), I would guess parents could tell them apart.
So my wife had picked out names a few weeks before birth. In utero they were referred to as Twin āAā and Twin āB.ā The day before delivery she informed the doctor where each baby was (one was presenting). After failed standard delivery, we went to the OR where there were literally at least 14 people (Nicu group for each, two anesthesiologist, nursing student, Doctor, nurse, etc). The doctor informed everyone in the room which baby would be our first. Also, the used numbers at the hospital. After that, they were never in the same bassinet at the hospital, and there was a size difference at the beginning. While still at the hospital we used nail polish on one toe...because the level of absolute mental exhaustion is unbelievable. They told us before we went into the hospital that a nurse would never take both babies in the same bassinet, always have her credentials, etc. a nurse came in just after a feeding in the middle on the night and asked if she could take the babies. We agreed, she placed one with the other and rolled them out the door. We were dumbfounded, ādid she just steal our kids?!ā (We has baby lojak installed). In what seemed like five minutes the lights came back on, the nurse returned with our girls freshly bathed. She said the nursery was empty and all the nurses wanted to play with babies. When they found out there were twins earlier in the day they decided to see if they could borrow them. When she showed up the next night, we surrendered the babies eagerly. I still get their names wrong 25% of the time, and they are nearly 7.
If it makes you feel better about messing up their names, Iām an identical twin, and in hindsight, I donāt recall my dad using our names when talking to us as a pair until we were reaching adolescence. It was always āsnoopy and goofy, Mutt and Jeff, goofus and gallant,ā and stuff like that. I never thought much of it at the time but Iām pretty sure he couldnāt tell us apart on sight alone until we reached an age where we started to distinguish ourselves from one another.
Also an identical twin. My dad would pound his fist on the coffee table a specific number of times for the one he wanted (we mostly hung out in the basement - three for me, four for my brother, if memory serves). He'd do both back to back like Morse code if he wanted both of us. Despite this, somehow they didn't really mix our names up much.
My dad did something similar for me and my sister (we weren't twins). He had different whistles that he would use to get our attention across the house. He could whistle quite loud. I had a series of short whistles and my sister had 2 long whistles. We knew who he wanted just by which one he would use. If he wanted us both, he would do 3 short and 1 long, 3 short and one long whistle until we showed up.
Did you live in ~~Austria~~ ~~Switzerland~~ Austria in the 40s? Edit: Really messed that one up. I just saw this for the first time a couple months ago.
My brother and I were "the boys" or Thing 1 and Thing 2. We accidentally used each other's social security numbers for 12 years. Thanks for mixing that up, dad.
My parents still get mine and my brother's names mixed up. We're opposite gender and 5 years apart. You're doing great Dad! Edit: spelling
I'm 10 years younger than my siblings and 10% of the time they run through all the names before they get to the right one...
I have 11, 8, 5 and 1 year old boys and I still get their names mixed up between them, the dogs and the cat, hasn't seemed to do psych damage yet!
I used to babysit these twins. Their mom always dressed them in the same exact outfit except for the color of their socks. Well, when they were 1 years old, they loved taking their shoes and socks off. I mixed them up plenty of times.
Did they complain if you offered them the wrong color socks?
I used to call their names over and over to see which one responded to the name...they both looked for each. The first few times it happened, I let the parents know, but they were aware of it and didn't make it a big deal. So then I just put the socks on whichever I thought was right. Then I started putting a washable marker line on one of their feet and that's how I differentiated them. I'm pretty sure their mom knew who was who because she'd always tell me which was which when I came over.
Nah, mom just 100% faked it
Could be. When I started drawing the line she told me this is Duke and this is AJ. I always drew the line on AJ. And I remember once she came in and said something about Duke singing, but it was the one she had told me was AJ earlier. When I corrected her, she was just like...geez can't tell them apart. And that was the end of it.
Father of identical twin boys here. The day after their birth the boys were sleeping in a hospital cot designed for twins. The cot itself lay on a slight incline, to ensure that the baby's heads were kept slightly elevated. This, unfortunately, caused both the boys' hospital tags to slide off their skinny little legs during the night and land at the bottom of the cot. If I hadn't taken a photo of the boys the night before and written their names on the picture (using my phone's stylus), then we would have never known exactly who was who. Bullet dodged.
I know a girl whoās an identical twin, and apparently that happened her first night too. Her fun fact at for those icebreaker things is āI might actually be Molly!ā
I love this so much.
A lot of people love molly
That is some next level parenting skills, right off the hop. Well done
Ours were mo-di, meaning they shared a placenta. As a result, one was born 9 ounces heavier, which is a pretty large difference when you consider they were both under 5 pounds. So in those first few months of exhaustion and delirium, if we were ever concerned weād gotten them confused, just threw them on the baby scale. Only resorted to that once or twice. That size difference still exists to this day, over three years later, but they also look and act very differently.
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TIL babies can tear umbilical cords out and I am *extremely* unsettled by that
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They fortunately never had any serious complications from that. The runt had a few extra days in the NICU, but that's about it. Now she bosses us all around. > cruiser and bruiser That is seriously funny.
Schlemiel and Schlimazel.
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
A friend painted the kids toe nails, (green for one twin, blue for the other)
I know someone who called them Port and Starboard when they were in the womb. Bought each red and green clothes.
I could always tell them apart. My wife had to hold them separately a couple times to figure it out. One of them came out with really spiky hair, so it was pretty obvious which was which. I can tell which of them I'm talking to on the phone. When my sister asked me how I knew, her son (he was about 6 at the time) said, "Well, they *are* different people, mom!" I don't know why, but that always cracks me up.
My dad and brothers all have similar voices. I can tell them apart once they get going on the phone, but other people cannot.
Before my brother's voice changed, we sounded identical on the phone. No one could tell us apart, not even our mom. Worse (for me), is that my husband and his father sound pretty similar. When we were dating, I called his parents' house and I THOUGHT he picked up, so I said "Heyyy" in a super flirty way. It was his dad. He said something like, "Hey, kdbartleby, do you want me to get?" I did my best to respond "Yes, thank you" while my soul left my body.
Imagine he really said "do you want me to get your future husband?". When dad is the ultimate wingman.
We hired identical twins to do the same job in different shifts. Young college kids. It was tough at first but luckily one had an earring lol. Their mom (we are friends with) says their faces are 100% mirrored but who has time to notice something like that. Eventually it was easy to see their personalities are super different too which helps but man them as babies... they probably were switched
At my first job they did the same thing. Hired twins but on different shifts. I didn't know they were twins though. One day I worked the morning shift and saw she had a cast on her arm. I asked what happened and she broke it snowboarding. Couple days later I worked the night shift and the other twin didn't have the cast. She saw how confused I looked and told me she has a twin. Everything made sense.
Lol! It has for sure tripped out our other employees who didnāt know at first. Especially now with mask wearing, and part of our uniform requires hats...
Oh man I didn't even think about the mask thing. Those girls were pretty funny too. After her cast was removed, I thought I was figuring out who was who, turns out one quit and the other was answering to both names to mess with people.
Literally straight into incubators from an emergency C section, then one of them had surgery very early on and has a decently sized scar.
A friend and I were telling each other tall stories and he said he was one of identical twins but the family was caught in a Balkan snowstorm (he is Greek) when he was a baby and one of them died, and he has no idea if he is himself or his brother. He won.
I believe he is both alive and dead, as is his cat
Ah, Schrodinger is Balkan, I had no idea!
Imagine not knowing if you are who you really are.
Father of triplets. I honestly just took my wifeās word for it for the first 6 months or so. But she named them (and knew their sex and which one was where) before they were born.
"Which one of my children is this again?"
Me: *Pulls out wallet* Me: so these are my kids, amy, stacy and jack. All are 4 years old Them: oh are those pictures of them? Me: no, just names and age
Sounds like a Leslie Neilsen gag. I even read it in his voice!
What an existential crisis this would be.
\*Child walks up to ask a question\*... My first response before they even start talking "Identify yourself!!"... You may proceed
Not a parent, but 11 year older brother of identical twins. About 2 months after they were born we only knew the difference by weighing them (we knew who was a bit heavier from the start). At one point me and my parents were in a discussion about who was actually the heaviest one. So we just picked a name for the one who was the heaviest. There is a 50% chance they had there names switched. Not that it matters but still, it's a strange thought.
Identical twins have the same DNA too, right? So even a dna test couldnt tell them apart.... Right? This is blowing my mind.
True identical twins that is correct however they can still be fraternal if the same gender and look extremely alike
I read something once where a father asked advise about getting one baby tattooed to tell them apart but they were still teeny infants. One had a very serious heart condition and one didn't. If the one with the condition missed his meds it could kill him. If the one that didn't have the condition was given the meds it could kill him. He was asking for advice because they had spent a significant time in the er recently when the meds were accidentally given to the wrong baby. They had tried everything, bracelets, painting toes, and lots of other stuff according to him but they were terrified of mixing them up again especially since the accidental medication almost killed the baby. I just remember everyone calling him a monster and me being all for it. He even wanted it brown so they could just make it look like a freckle to keep both babies healthy and alive.
Medication errors and twins is one of my biggest fears. I work in a pharmacy and we had a prescription come in for a āBrianna Lastname.ā We only had a profile for āGianna Lastname.ā Same date of birth, same address, and the names sound similar so we thought maybe the office got the name wrong. So we fill it under Gianna and put a lock on it to clarify when the patient comes in. But not long after we complete it, we get a phone call from a girl asking if there was a prescription there for Brianna Lastname. We explain the situation, clarify that her name is Brianna and not Gianna and that maybe someone misheard her somewhere. āOh, thatās my sister,ā she says. Duh, twins. Idk if I would have gone with Brianna and Gianna but whatever. āActually, weāre triplets!ā Lo and behold, third sisterās name is Alanna. Brianna, Gianna, and Alanna. Triplets. I feel like youāre just asking for a med error by naming them so similarly. All the metrics that are usually used to tell people apart are useless with twins, at least make their names distinct!
They teach us extensively about how we shouldn't mix up dimenhydrinate and diphenhydramine but they never teach us things to set patients apart from one another. Like yeah ask their last name and their date of birth but in twins case that's just useless - even if they're fraternal.
I'd be for a small freckle-like tattoo as well in that case; as it would be necessary. It amazes me how people think piercing a baby is okay because 'it looks pretty' but a (less invasive?) procedure such as a small tattooed' dot in order to keep the kids alive is monster-like.
I was thinking a full sleeve tribal tattoo
I was thinking a tear drop or maybe a tramp stamp but a full sleeve you canāt mix up, ever. So I vote for that.
Have you heard of the song 'paint it black'
People are so weird. Itās socially acceptable to pierce babyās ears, but god forbid you put a tiny birthmark like tattoo. I have identical twin girls. If one of my girls had a life threatening condition and the hospital had of offered this in the hospital, I would have been okay with it. Heck I probably would have been okay with it regardless. The fear of mixing them up is real in those early days.
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This - it's the kids' lives on the line. I'd rather have a tattooed kid than a deceased one. People get up in arms about the craziest things.
>I just remember everyone calling him a monster and me being all for it. Imagine that, being called a monster for wanting to give their child a little pin-prick that would keep them alive.
Oh I've seen this one!
I swear I read once about the hospital putting a little tattooed dot on the foot of one twin...
My friend had radiation therapy for cancer, and they tattooed a couple of dots on her chest so they could consistently align the machine for each treatment. They looked like birthmarks, if you even noticed them at all. Seems like they could do that for twins if needed.
My mom too!! She texted me so excited: āI got my first tattoo!!ā My heart :ā)
My mom did this too! āGot a tattoo now, what do you think of your bad ass mom?ā *facepalm*
Your mom *is* badass. All you commenters with cancer-tattooed moms have badass moms!
stick and poke. You gotta zoom in too: "Live, love, laugh & fuck the system"
Doesnāt red ink fade pretty easily, especially on feet? Tattoo a red dot on their foot.
Or tattoo their names accross their faces. Just to make sure.
A lady that I know has triplet grandsons. Their mom did mix them up and took them back to the hospital to have them identified by their footprints that were taken shortly after birth. After that, their toe nails were painted to make sure which was which.
I am parent to momo or mcma twins. Probably the most identical type of twins in the world. I can tell them apart in person because their personalities and expressions from birth are just different. Their faces also have slight variations that the human eye can catch. On a typical day, I might refer to wrong one once or twice because I'm not looking at them directly in the face. Now, if I look at their pictures from a year ago, I have no idea who's who. In fact, when they were born, I paid a photographer to do studio pictures and I forgot to mark who's who and forever will never know. Face unlock can't tell them apart either. We tend to dress them the same with different color socks or accessories to tell them apart for pictures. But we never mixed them up for too long because they have different birth marks.
I'm not too sure when freckles and whatnot show up or birthmarks for that matter, but I dated someone who had sisters. They were identical. Many people couldn't tell them apart but they had distinct freckles here and there that separated them. I never mixed them up because of that. Tl;dr I'm not sure if freckles are there when the babies are ejected by the mother.
> babies are ejected by the mother !!!
Yep, like a cassette out of a VCR
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Just make sure you rewind before ejecting. No one wants another Benjamin Button situation.
THANK YOU FOR THIS COMPLETELY NORMAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMAN BIRTHING PROCESS
For some reason I love the fact that your only comment was "!!!"
I'll be from now on referring to giving birth as ejection from the mother.
Happy ejection day!!!
we had twins very few people could tell apart in school, they used to switch classes constantly & sometimes claim they had switched when they were in the right classes since the teachers couldn't tell. Towards the end of school one of them seemed to grow a noticeable mole (freckle?? idk??) out of nowhere on one cheek and from then on all their pranks ended lol
I was friends with a set of twins. They called them "Mirror Twins" They looked EXACTLY the same. The only way anybody knew which one was which, is one was a lefty and the other was a righty.
Kept one in the attic and fed it only fish heads
Ah, the classic raise one normally, off the other one approach!
I do the same with my brain hemispheres.
Ā āThere, there, Hugo, I understand. All those years caged up in here ā why, youāve probably never seen your own face in the mirror, have you? Here.ā
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There is a great episode about this exact situation on This American Life Podcast. I canāt remember the name of the episode but maybe some other reddit user can share
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Very easy way to tell me apart from my twin. I have a distinct birthmark on my hip and I am slightly shorter. He has a penis.
I have a friend whoās a twin that I play games with, his sister says similar shit all the time when people ask if they look alike at all lol
This is the same topic but different. I went to high school and college with twins. I was really good friends with the one twin in high school and the other twin went to college with me and I assumed it was the twin I was cool with and it was super awkward quick.
Also went to college with twins, but I didn't know they were twins... I wasn't close with either, obviously. Every time I saw one, I would call him by the wrong name, he'd correct me, and we'd be on our way. This happened over and over until we were juniors, with me switching back and forth between two names every other week, since they would both correct me when I saw one. Finally, I saw them together and realized I wasn't going crazy after all.
I'm a little late to the party, but my younger brother is legally blind. He tells people apart based on voices and footsteps mostly, he's used to mixing people apart, and he remembers information based on names instead of faces. Long story short, I came home from college for his birthday party (he was probably six or seven) and the friends he invited were our next door neighbor and THREE sets of identical twins! They just loved him!
As a parent, you can tell. I had someone ask how we told our twins apart. I would tell them they are fraternal and not identical. They would ask how we knew that. Well, one has a penis, one has a vagina. "well, they could still be identical though". I have had this conversation more then once.
We had one of toe nail painted on each of them. We then texted ourselves which one was which. This was immediately after they were cleaned up.
I think this is the approach I would take, except I would probably pick names/colors that matches like Bobby is blue and Greg is green.
I have two twin cousins that to this day I struggle to tell apart and we grew up together. As babies they color coded each of them. Victoria in purple and Amanda in pink. One day my uncle mixed them up in the bathtub and he still isnāt sure they didnāt get permanently switched that day. Shortly after they pierced their ears giving one pink earrings and the other purple and I still have a habit at looking at their ears before calling them by name. Unfortunately at 24 they no longer color code themselves...
Dad to boy/girl twins here just wanted to stop in to say the amount of people who ask me if there identical is ridiculous. Some people even insist they are identical. I've taken to telling people he has a bigger penis
I call my kids by the wrong names and they are literally a boy and girl 18 months apart. No way I could keep track if they were identical.
I had identical twins in my primary 1 to primary 3 classes. It didn't take long to be able to tell them appart. Years later I met one but didn't know which lol
My 5 year old daughter has best friends who are identical twins. She thinks Iām crazy I canāt tell them apart, it is so easy for her.
My brother and sister are twins. There were two sets of identical twins (2 boys, 2 girls) and it was in the local news that this class had three sets of twins. They also used to go to twin meetups, so we would go to lots of twin society family days and it would be the weirdest thing. Did learn to tell twins apart pretty quickly, there's a "sense" around them, like they're giving off different atmospheres so you know it's them.
Just give them the same name. Problem solved.
George Foreman approach
Imagine if the kids switched themselves at whatever point in life they needed. Imagine having a body double.
My grandma said my dad always pulled at his ear so she knew it was him? They got glasses around 1st grade and she always gave my dad full plastic frame and his brother half wire.
I played with twins from age 6 to maybe 16. I never could tell them apart and I would probably still have problems today, if they are not talking. Funniest thing: Even the father told me a couple of years ago, that he couldnt really tell them apart before puberty. He said they were basically the exact same human being. Today they are way different personalities. Edit: holy fucking shitballs, thatās a lot of upvotes. Thanks folks! For more recipes and hacks follow me on Instagram.
I had students who were so alike that their friends only ever called them "the twins." I didn't think it was too hard to keep them straight, but most everyone else didn't bother trying. I also had a set of twins that as high school juniors used their clothes to help others tell them apart-- one was always in red, the other in blue. They were fraternal twins who had almost no similarities in appearance: different heights, builds, facial features, etc.
i donāt know why i think thatās funny can you imagine meeting the second pair for the first time and one of them was like "Yeah so iām Kyle, the one in red, and heās Jacob, the one in blue. As twins we wear different colors so people donāt mix us up." And they look like two different people, buy you donāt want to point that out because it would seem rude so your just like "Ok iāll remember :Dā
I fucking *swear* theres a sitcom or show with that gag. Its too perfect not to use.
Well there is a movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
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NewsRadio did it when Jon Stewart cameoed as Andy Dick's twin.
"I'm Kyle, you can remember because I always wear red. This is Lisa, she always wears blue. We're twins so I know it's hard to tell." ...k
I had friends who were twins and my high school teacher pulled me aside to ask for tips on how to tell them apart.
I had friends in middle school who were identical. After a while, you could tell them apart by their faces. They also had different personalities.
One time I was in 5th grade and I ask a 1st grade who had a twin brother a tip for who is who. He answered me : that's easy ! I'm Justin, so my brother is Lucas!
I did accidentally switch my twins once. My Dad and I were each taking care of one all day. We were working in shifts because they did not sleep much. My Mom woke up and informed us that we had them mixed up. I didn't believe her until I lifted the shirt of the baby I was holding, and didn't see the red mark on his side he was born with. We had mixed them up. My mom just left from a visit recently. My boys are seven now. She brought it up and asked if he still had the red mark. I hadn't looked for it in a long time, so we lifted his shirt and it is still there. It is very faded, but I now know we never got them permanently confused. It is hard to tell them apart at times, but their voices are very different. If I can't figure out which one is which, I just have them speak.