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AIBU?

to expect that people seeing two wildly differently sized children who happen to bear a resemblance to each other

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 21:46

might say "are they brothers?" not "are they twins?"

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FlameParakeet · 29/07/2007 21:47

lmao

They do have the same face though....

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SlightlyMadSpider · 29/07/2007 21:49

Thast Ok. DPs cousin has 2 redheaded children.

She was out walking with my DTDs in double pushchair (and they were prem so v small for age) and her 2. She was asked if she had triplets (My DTDs and her youngest - 2years older than DTDs). She was shocked as they look nothing alike and certainly did't look the same age.

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 21:50

Well, yes, they're pretty much peas in a pod, but it's not unheard of for siblings to resemble each other, is it?

I was first asked this when DS2 was 5mo. DS1 was 2.2yo...

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FlameParakeet · 29/07/2007 21:55

I get it with Psychomum... we put our DC in a shopping trolley together (ok they are the same size) - but DD looks like me, her DS doesn't look much like either of us.

Two women... two children... why assume that they are one woman's twins rather than a child each?!

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Miaou · 29/07/2007 21:55

Oh yes I used to get this all the time when the dds were little - aged 2 and 4, they both had their hair in a bob. I used to get fed up of being asked if they were twins

hello hunker

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Miaou · 29/07/2007 21:57

I remember once taking bensmum4's two kids round the supermarket with my two dds (this was before each of us doubled our output ) - they were both blonde, like my dds - more than one person asked if they were all mine

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tortoise · 29/07/2007 21:57

I get asked this too. dd1 is 4 and dd2 is 3.

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 21:58

How's edible Euan?

I expect it'll happen more and more as DS2 gets older. My mum and dad used to be asked if DB and I were twins (he's 2.6 years younger than me).

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 22:00

I can understand it when the children in question are 4 and 2, but not 5m and 2. That's just unobservant or bonkers.

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Tortington · 29/07/2007 22:00

i never get " are they twins" and they are! they dont actuallylook like they come from the same family.

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 22:01

There's irony for you, Custy! I used to know twins who were MADLY different in appearance (one was just shy of 5', the other just shy of 6' - both girls!).

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littlelapin · 29/07/2007 22:02

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FlameParakeet · 29/07/2007 22:02

I think that is what irks me more Miaou... the fact that never does anyone assume they are MY babies - out with another friend last week, and someone thought all 4 were hers, rather than 2 mine

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sweetkitty · 29/07/2007 22:03

I get it a lot too especially when DD2 has no hair and DD1 had loads of wild curls. Yes they are twins that one hasn't learned to sit up yet!

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Peachy · 29/07/2007 22:04

Ah come on

ds1 and ds2 were aways accused of being twins, even when ds2 was 4 weeks old and ds1 walking alongside pmsl, there's 13.5 months between them.

DS3 is always beinga ccused of being the twin of his fellow mindee when the CM is out, they do have very similar looks though

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Tortington · 29/07/2007 22:04

ever better...when they were babies - some old person said in disgusted tone " youhad them close together didn't you!"

" err yes 15 mins apart said i"

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FlameParakeet · 29/07/2007 22:06

pmsl Custy!

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WanderingTrelawney · 29/07/2007 22:20

Once upon a time, I was a nanny to a white baby and a black baby, 4 months apart in age.

"Aaah, is it twins?" some dimwit would say.

"Yes," I would smile.



Sometimes I used to say they were identical, too.

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SleeplessInTheStaceym11House · 29/07/2007 22:28

pmsl @ custy!

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potoroo · 29/07/2007 22:35

I was out with a friend and her DD who is same age as my DS. Two mums, two children.
We got asked if they were twins... fair enough because they are the same age, but friend's DD has blonde hair and blue eyes and my DS is 1/2 Chinese...

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LyraBelacqua · 29/07/2007 22:37

I thought I was the only one who got asked this
Mine are 22 months apart, with a very clear size difference, and not that similar looking imo, and I still get asked if they're twins. Gah!

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edam · 29/07/2007 22:42

Doesn't only apply to children. Shopping for my friend's wedding dress, assistant asked if we were sisters.

Friend is 5'11, straight auburn hair, boyish figure. I'm 5'7 on a good day, curly dark brown hair, with a very curvy figure. In what way, exactly, do we look like sisters?!

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unknownrebelbang · 29/07/2007 22:46

22 months between my younger two, and yep we're often asked if they're twins, and from quite an early age.

They do look alike (in fact all three lads are similar) but they're a different build - DS2 has a very athletic build, and DS3 is tall but chunky with it.

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hunkermunker · 29/07/2007 22:56

See pic on my profile - are they twins?!

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unknownrebelbang · 29/07/2007 22:58

No...but they are gorgeous.

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