That’s why I tattooed my twins initials on their foreheads backwards at birth, that way if they ever forget who they are, they can just look in the mirror.
/s
There are identical twins out there whose parents confused one with the other and now they living their life with the name of the other sibling, never noticing because it doesn't make any difference.
Submitted 1 year ago by Shunned_Marble4378@feddit.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 year ago
It’s had to have happened at least once.
Chefdano3@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As someone who has 14 month old identical twins, I was almost positive this would happen. We painted their tiny toenails to try and avoid that. At this point we they are different enough we can tell them apart. Everyone else struggles, but we can tell easily
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see, you choose the michael scott approach
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Can confirm. Had to go back to check prints. Were then color-coded for life and I still don’t wear reds or browns.
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, that’s why they mark them on the head with permanent marker! /s
MrSlicer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Write initials in the soft spot
Merulox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Relativity
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 year ago
What I’ve found is that after a week socializing with twins, it’s pretty much impossible to confuse one with the other, especially if they’re older. There’s always some little quirk that differentiates the two. The parents who raised them would have to be out of the world shitty if they can’t tell apart their children.
ShustOne@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I could see this happening when they are babies though. Like 6 weeks in Bob becomes Tom and Tom becomes Bob and you might never know. I don’t think that would be harmful at such a young age though.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Where I live, birth certificate registration require footprints taken by a nurse. I imagine identical twins still have different footprints pattern?
Imagine when you’re old and tried to compare your footprints out of curiosity only to find out your identity has been swapped this whole time.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yeah I can’t recognize my own daughter in the first few weeks/months of her life even if I look at the pictures and know its her.
JDubbleu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As long as they don’t have different allergies or had biometrics recorded and assigned to them at the hospital it arguably wouldn’t even matter.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Having had twins, I can’t imagine it happening 6 weeks in for more than a few minutes. 6 hours, definitely. 6 days, maybe. But by 6 weeks, you know who is who. Even identical twins are pretty easy to tell apart after having spent significant time with them. It’s actually pretty common for parents of di/di identical twins (which are the type that could be fraternal) to not think their twins are identical only to have everyone else notice they are.
Pandantic@midwest.social 1 year ago
Yeah, there was an episode of full house with this idea - they used their footprints to tell them apart. I can imagine you couldn’t be doing that all the time tho.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have siblings who are twins. Can confirm. In fact growing up with them it was weird to me that people got them confused with each other at all given how different they really are
Noxvento@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This. I know identical twins, at first glance they look exactly the same, but with a little time it’s pretty easy to tell them apart. Even in older photos it’s not that hard to tell which is which.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Me and the clone argue about old photos about who is whom. Like, WE don’t know who WE are in some photos.