Twin Questions

Posted on February 10, 2012 by No Comments

Another day, another set of stupid twin questions! I don’t mind to be honest but sometimes I think maybe the children feel a little uncertain about the attention, particularly our youngest. Our eldest are fraternal boy and girl aged almost 10 so often people don’t even realise they are twins immediately but our youngest are identical twin girls currently aged 4 and they are very similar to those outside of our family and friends circle and even then friends can confuse them!

Today the first lot of interest came from the man at the cash till in a shop whilst paying for our goods.  He wanted to know if they did everything at the same time. Do they get sick at the same time? Do they laugh at the same time? Now, I could have turned on my heels at the mere lack of rationale behind these questions but I realise that the subject of Twins really does still interest people to the point that all logic goes out of the window prior to the questions. So, I stayed and of course I said No and he went on to explain that he had heard stories of Twins being brought up separately yet when they discovered they had a twin and analysed their lives they found that they were living very similar lives.  I’ve heard these stories too and I am sure there is much truth in them but I am also sure that if you look close enough there will always be difference; after all twins are individuals as well as being twins.  They are still affected separately by external influences which can mean many things.

I politely explained that whilst my girls are indeed identical they are also very different and they do not always do everything at the same time and sometimes they do go off in separate directions in many areas of their lives. He complemented the girls calling them “little angels” and made a fuss.   All was fine with this, no harm done.

But then waiting for us at the end of the counter, another shop worker had joined us and looked at both my girls scrutinising them both claiming that she could definitely tell them apart.  I humoured her once again and said well one is slightly bigger than the other and she said NO quite adamantly that there was something very different about their faces.  I think to myself “OK, cool., now just bog off!” The girls are now looking at me wondering what the hell the fuss is all about and my husband feels it’s turning into some kind of freak show.

We leave the shop……

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