Twin things

Since always I have had a twin sister who is very similar to me (how is logical) although in the last years maybe we are more different that when we were little. Even so, there ate a lot of people, overcoat when they first meet us, that easily confuse us. 

Over the years, I have noticed that there are some “questions” or “myth” around twin brothers that everybody ask when meet some pair of twins. 

The most common is not a question, it is a test to prove that we are true twins. It consist in say: “oh, can you get together to see you?” and then they concluded that we really are twins. There are some variants of this practice. Sometimes, taking advantage of we are already close, people start playing to “find the differences”. I think this is quite absurd because we end up saying how they can difference each one, so the game doesn’t work well. 

Then there is another variant of the play, and I think this is which I hate most. I call it “who is who”. People want to prove they really know our difference and they want to practice their ability to distinguish us. So they turned occur and make my sister and I move and change our position to try to hit who is who. 

One of the more frequent strategies that people follow to differentiate us is trying to establish relations between what we wear. For example they say: ah ok, who wear red t-shirt is Andrea and who have these rings is Berta”. And then when they want to call one of us they start to for our rings or to remember hoe wear what color. For example, in my football team our teammates or the public to guess who we are in the field have to look at football boots, but still failing.  In my opinion, this isn’t a good method because it only can works for one day if we change our clothes. 

I have adopted the habit that when I listen to the name of “Andrea” I turn as if they call me. And I have to say that the majority of times they are calling me. 

When we have already passed the first part of differentiation, start the habitual questions about myth and theories. One of the most popular is: “And when your sister cries you cry, too?” Absolutely no. Like when one of us gets hurt, the other one doesn’t notice anything. 

There is another one that it is also very typical and there are different theories for the answer. They ask us who were the first to born (me) and the rule says that who born first is the little one. I don’t know the real answer to this question, but I used it to resolve conflicts with the argument of the older. 

And finally there is a last question with which we have to answer always: “Is it cool to have a twin sister?” I don’t know, I always have had one. And then everybody wants to have a brother like him. 

The true is that a pair of twins is a little strange and I don’t blame people for their curiosity. Have a twin sister is like have another sister, but this is your age, wear the same cloth of you, it’s your course and shares your birthday day.