Personal Narrative: My Twins

Tamia was the name I rarely had growing up. One of the challenges that I still continue to face in my everyday life is defining my individuality. With having an identical twin sister people constantly compared us since the day we were born. As we got older and our personalities developed people still grouped us as the same. They would always look past that we are two different people. It became frustrating at times because we were always placed in the same school and programs up until high school. At times people wouldn’t even get the chance to remember our names and instead call us “Twins”. My sister, Tiara and I always hated it. It’s frustrating knowing that no matter what I do; I would never be seen as myself rather than “the twins”. In school we would try to do different hairstyles, wear different things even if we both liked it, just so people wouldn’t think we were the same. People always wanted us to fit into the cliché term of twins from trying to determine whom the good or bad twin was. People didn’t realize that just like everyone else we have our own personality. Why does one of us have to be the smart, nice twin? I remember when I was around 7 this lady told me that I was going to be the skinny twin and Tiara was going to be the fat twin …show more content…
Growing up we would always try to pick different things just so people could acknowledge the fact that we are our own person. We were accepted into our high school, we were placed in different schools. At first I was disappointed because we didn’t want to go to those schools but we just accepted. At first it was different not having the person that you are used to seeing every day, but I liked the change. The majority of the people didn’t even know I had a twin sister or even a sister. I got to feel what it's like to never be called “twins” and I got to be seen as Tamia. Thinking about it now I am glad this happened to