Sharing family, sharing a bedroom, sharing toys, and sharing a birthday are just some of the weird things I had to do growing up with my twin brother. People often ask questions like: “Is it weird being a twin?”, “Do you hate having to share a birthday?”, “Do you have twin telepathy?” My brother and I are often found laughing in the faces of absurd people who ask these questions. We don’t think it’s weird being a twin because we’ve never known what it’s like not to be one. We’ve never not shared a birthday with someone so we don’t know if we hate it or not. We definitely can’t read each other’s minds, or talk in a special language without using words, so no we don’t have twin telepathy. Most people don’t understand most parts of our lives and we can’t really explain it either.
My mom and dad have never been around twins before they found out they were having them so they never knew what to expect or how to deal with us. One thing that I wish more than anything is to have twins of my own one day because I know what to expect, how to deal with different situations they will face, and I know just about everything there is to know about twins.
One thing I never really understood was how twins ‘skip a generation’, which inhibits me from knowing if I will have twins of my own or not. Through research, I have found that fraternal twins, like my brother and I, do in fact run in families. It is in fact a myth that twins skip a generation though. This probably came about because of men receiving the gene and not being able to have kids so he passes it on to his daughter, resulting in a skipped generation. So as a twin what is my likelihood? Since I am a fraternal twin, my chances go from 1 in 38-90 down to 1 in 17. I guess I have to wait a couple years to find out, but my twin future looks bright.
http://www.twinstwice.com/twins.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/health/02real.html?_r=0