My family compliments my twin sister incessantly and not me

[xxbabeechick]

3 years from now you'll be talking about the good ol' days and how men used to like you before you became washed up looking like me.

[nyanna]

I don't have a whole lot of men liking me though. It'll just be another year that has gone by

[sweetchas]

Op just assume that they dont like you and go on about your life.

[imcurious]

Sibling rivalry. And if you're fraternal, you are not "pretty much one person."

[xxbabeechick]

Originally Posted by imcurious

And if you're fraternal, you are not "pretty much one person."

Why? You have a twin and can offer your comparative experience?

[imcurious]

You shared a womb. Your DNA is the same as any other sibling . . . you are not "one person." You may be close, but I think you are confused about your identity, maybe?

[xxbabeechick]

Good you know the definition of a fraternal twin? Yes, so do I. And I can tell you the biggest part of creating a shared identity is having all the same experiences, at the same time. My twin sister and I sucked each other's faces as infants for comfort. When she learned to walk, and I couldn't yet (they didn't know I had a connective tissue disorder til much later), she dragged me along. We had our own neologistic language. We wrote books together and made up stories and pretend plays that we wove the story of over years. We had two beds but slept in one.

[ImCurlybelle]

If you didn't care, you wouldn't be posting about it.

If I were in your shoes, it would bother me ... I would probably not stay as quiet though ... I'd probably say to them, "You know, your words are pretty hurtful - we're twins and you are always dwelling on one and leaving out the other".

It's in insensitive.

[MsAnnThrope]

Originally Posted by xxbabeechick

Hmmmm...we wore the same clothes and did our hair the same way up until the time we were 14 years old...and when I was younger it was worse, imo...I'm leaning towards the idea they just like her better.

Me too.