• @Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
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    261 year ago

    I feel like if I ever have twins, I’m going to stress about that more than is necessary. Like, documenting freckles or using a sharpie or something.

    • Why should it even matter? Once they’re old enough to know their own names, they’ll remember. And until then, it doesn’t matter who is who.

      • @Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee
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        21 year ago

        Causes some issues.

        Like when they start vaping at 1 y/o and their first words are about taking a “gap year” after Pre-K?

    • @avocadobaby@reddthat.com
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      321 year ago

      We painted their toe nails for the first month but even after about a week could tell them apart pretty easily. Their position in the womb and the birth means they can have quite different head shapes from one another. Also as another comment said, differences in personality are big and start surprisingly early.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        181 year ago

        My best friend is a mirror twin. His brother cried a lot more as a baby. When they became toddlers his brother complained a lot more. Now as adults, his brother still complains and argues a lot more. I don’t understand how they can be genetically identical, have the exact same upbringing, and be so different from the moment of their birth, but they are.

          • SokathHisEyesOpen
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            1 year ago

            That’s not how identical twins are formed. An egg, fertilized from a single sperm, splits into two, creating two people with identical DNA. You’re thinking of fraternal twins, where two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperm.

      • DarraignTheSane
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        51 year ago

        Yeah was going to say, one or the both of them is going to have a ‘tell’ right from birth - head shape, a birth mark, hair differences… something.

        • @avocadobaby@reddthat.com
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          31 year ago

          It’s a lot of stress especially at first, you’re thrown in the deep end, but there are really nice moments that I think just increase as they grow older and can play together and interact more.