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My dad has an identical twin. Until I was about four years old they’d sometimes pretend to be the other to mess with me. After that age I could pretty easily tell them apart, but I couldn’t (and still can’t) really articulate how to do it to other people. It was just like “it’s easy, my uncle has a softer face.” They have identical-looking noses, cheekbones, jawlines, facial hair, etc. Neither is really noticeably fatter than the other or anything. Looking at them side by side there’s not really anything that actually looks softer on my uncle’s face than on my dad’s face. But if I’m pressed to describe how to tell them apart that’s the only way I can come up with to describe it. My mom and brother and sister and aunt and cousins all agree with that too. But if you try to objectively find what about his face is softer you can’t do it. —frumpy_teapot
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My mom is an identical twin (mirror twins), her twin lives across the country but when they get together they find it hilarious to get the same haircut, dress the same and even record voicemails for each other (her twin has a slightly stronger accent). There was nothing more frustrating as a teenager than coming home and lamenting to my mom and suddenly she goes “I’m not your mom HAHAHAHA”.
When they were kids, they often swapped dates with each other and my mom even tricked her twin’s date into buying her chocolate, teddy bear and flowers on Valentine’s Day. They also took tests for each other. Growing up, my grandmother would get confused because as infants and toddlers they’d always somehow end up in the same crib or bed and she would confuse who was who. To this day, they still have their own language from childhood and get “feelings” when the other is in emotional turmoil. —squidnaay
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Am father of identical twin toddler boys and a 9 month old so think I feel qualified to answer this one. Since my wife feels its soooooo cute to dress them the same (“until they will tell us they dont want to”) this happens a lot more than one may think acceptable. There are some very small tells that I can find on each, like one has a slightly different head shape and another has a vein on his forehead in a more distinct pattern from the other. Still hard to tell in dim light.
For the most part now I usually try to get them to turn themselves in, almost like a jedi mind trick. For instance, when one gets in trouble and is looking guilty (pretty obvious for a 2 yo), I ask who did it and he inevitably names first the baby, then the dogs, then his brother’s name first, conveniently leaving out his own. —Wtf_another_throw
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On my highschool swim team we had a pair of identical twins.
For anyone that doesn’t know how swimming works, there are four different strokes: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. An IM (individual medley) is when all stroke are put into one race
One of the twins (A) was better at backstroke than twin (B). Meanwhile, B was better at breaststroke. At this particular meet, our coach decided to put them together in an IM relay where A would swim breaststroke and B would have to swim backstroke.
The only way you could tell the twins apart was by their swim caps. They decided to switch swim caps and swim for each other on the relay. None of us noticed until the year after when they told us. —purplechicken17
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In third grade I had twins that bth didn’t like their teacher so they just switched. They switched sometime in the first semester, and some kids knew but none of the staff or their mom who worked at the school ever found out, at least not in that year. They definitely bragged about it the next year, but thinking about it it was kind of messed up that some people never noticed and some people think they have memories with one person and it’s just the wrong person lol —ChappedPenguinLips
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My first year teaching there were a pair of senior girls who were identical twins in his class. One was in 1st period, the other in 4rth. The twin in 1st period took a test for 4rth period twin because she already saw the test. However she fucked up and wrote her own name on the test. —Ol_Man_Rambles
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My Dad was a identical twin. As a small kid the first time I met his twin my Dad wasn’t there, i jumped into my Uncles Arms and immediately sensed something was wrong. According to my mother I jumped down and ran away and hid. —Trussmagic
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Obligatory “Not me” post… but…. my aunt had identical twin boys. One Thanksgiving we were teasing them and her that they could very well be the wrong one. My aunt swore up and down that it never happened and she knows for sure which one was which at all times. After the kids went outside, it was quiet for a minute, and my aunt took that BIG GULP of wine before saying… “Yea, totally possibly. I used to mark one of their feet with a marker and one day after a bath I couldn’t find the mark anymore. Just don’t have the heart to tell them.” Much laughter ensued. —IPoopedAFishy
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My best friend’s dad got drunk one night and confessed that while they know the older twin is named “Gary” and the younger twin is named “Bill”, he was giving them a bath when they were a month old or so, and he lost track of which one was which. He never told the mom, just put one back in the “Bill” outfit, and the other in the “Gary” outfit. This happened two other times before they were two years old, and he says by this point he has no fucking clue if he’s the original Bill or not, or who is older. Both answered to both names when they were young, so he’s pretty confident he fucked it up at least once. —MyHandsAreSalmon
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My grandmother is an identical twin and there’s a couple stories.
At my grandparents wedding, my grandfather was dancing with my grandmother’s twin sister and she said “you know, this is the first time we’ve ever danced together” and he said “really? I never knew which one of you I was dancing with at the high school dances”
Also at my grandmother’s funeral my girlfriend at the time nearly shit her pants when she saw my grandmothers sister because she didn’t know she was a twin. —CorvenusDK
