There are so many good benefits of being an identical twin, and not so good benefits, during childhood years, teen years and present. Tricking our teachers and taking each other exams in the respective subjects we both good in. A shoulder to cry on, and someone to laugh with. However, it is also apparent that there are some kids can get freaked out, and lack of individual identity, embarrassing questions.
Being an identical twin as a kid, our family members and parents could never tell us apart or get our name right, so they decided to call us twin's. We always dressed alike same color dress with same color shoes and our hair have the same style. Our mom had to put nail polish on my sisters' toe nails to be able to tell us apart. My mom …show more content…
Having a twin doesn’t make me any more special than someone who doesn’t have a twin. Some occasions, I feel that having a twin makes simple things difficult. Like walking down, the street we're swing the same arms and walking with the same foot. We can sometime finish each other sentences she'll already knows what I’m going to say. We can be at home watching a movie and we both turned to give each other a look with raised eyebrows at the exact same time. Something just clicks. We’ve found ourselves thinking of the same thing or having the same dream and sitting the same, with our right leg crossed and left hand on our lap. We were pregnant at the same time; our first born was girls. One born 02/03/1997 and the other 03/02/1997. We lived six hundred miles away and go out shopping, we come back the same outfits for our girls. The not so good benefit is the whole creepy twin thing, being follow around constantly by different people staring at us. Some guys make crude jokes about wanting to “share” you with your sister. There have been times our friends considered my sister and I to be just one person, that’s hurtful. We look the same but we our own person. It still bothers me to this day someone calls me by my sister's
Being an identical twin as a kid, our family members and parents could never tell us apart or get our name right, so they decided to call us twin's. We always dressed alike same color dress with same color shoes and our hair have the same style. Our mom had to put nail polish on my sisters' toe nails to be able to tell us apart. My mom …show more content…
Having a twin doesn’t make me any more special than someone who doesn’t have a twin. Some occasions, I feel that having a twin makes simple things difficult. Like walking down, the street we're swing the same arms and walking with the same foot. We can sometime finish each other sentences she'll already knows what I’m going to say. We can be at home watching a movie and we both turned to give each other a look with raised eyebrows at the exact same time. Something just clicks. We’ve found ourselves thinking of the same thing or having the same dream and sitting the same, with our right leg crossed and left hand on our lap. We were pregnant at the same time; our first born was girls. One born 02/03/1997 and the other 03/02/1997. We lived six hundred miles away and go out shopping, we come back the same outfits for our girls. The not so good benefit is the whole creepy twin thing, being follow around constantly by different people staring at us. Some guys make crude jokes about wanting to “share” you with your sister. There have been times our friends considered my sister and I to be just one person, that’s hurtful. We look the same but we our own person. It still bothers me to this day someone calls me by my sister's