My twin and I are mirror twins. I'm left handed, my vision is strongest in my left eye, my natural hair whirls on the left. All of that is reversed on my twin. Also our dentist noticed that our dental x-rays are practically the same, just flip one x-ray over and they'll almost line up exactly.
@@Q_QQ_Q Luckily it seems that all of our mirroring has been mostly external. Our organs are both normal. We do have some oddities like one being allergic to certain things and the other is immune.
My father was a conjoined twin so I called his brother... my uncle on my father's side. But then they were surgically separated, so now he's my uncle once removed.
I remember hearing about a woman that had all kinds of legal problems because her children didn't share her DNA. They even had someone in the delivery room when the one child was born to be sure that she was actually the one giving birth. I don't recall all the particulars now, but they did eventually realize that she was a chimera. I've sometimes wondered when a DNA test comes back negative and the mother insists that no one else could be the father if it's a matter of chimerism.
Had to do with a divorce and establishing custody. Her kids went into foster care. Her stbx and she must have had a last fling, because she got pregnant again, and the rest is history.
@mwenyamutale1513 hypothetically there is a way for the kid to not appear as the fathers heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin. i.e. Susan and Bill have a 3way with John, and susan becomes pregnant with Bill and John's twins (Sam and Elliot) the baby's do whatever happens with a chimera, in the mothers womb, swapping cells that will become gonads. After Sam and Elliot are born and reach adult hood, they get married and have kids. because Sam has Elliots DNA, and Elliot has Sam's DNA, Sam's wife becomes pregnant with Elliot's Genetic kids and Elliots wife becoms pregnant with Sams genetic kids. if the Susan is also a heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin (ideally one with only one of her twin's ovaries), then its possible that a dna test might not even register Sam's kids as being closely related. keep in mind, heteropaternal superfecundation is incredibly rare, at about 0.25% of twin births. Chimeras are also rare, so the chances of this happening are rare.
When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
I mean, you would know it if you were a chimera, because you wouldnt have a living brother. I wonder now though whether there are cases of triplets who got out as twins and one got absorbed by one of the twins or both.
@@xxMpEGxx No not necessarily. He mentioned that some live twins are chimeras of each other (both twins have full cells from their twin with their twin's DNA)
@@xxMpEGxx They can be chimeras by absorbing their lower half only. One woman took a DNA test for government assistance and her kids DNA matched with her twin and they were taken away for kidnapping even tho she physically gave birth to them.
What about the rare cases of women with two uteri who get pregnant almost simultaneously in each uterus? Technically fraternal, but definitely a unique case.
As dissapointing as it is, they wouldn't be medically ruled as twins. They would be ruled "Multiple Singleton pregnancies". (I'm didelphys. My doctor was not laughing at my jokes during my prenatal appointment...)
I have a cousin who has 2 uteruses which is rare, but what is even more rare is that she found out one day that the second one became functional (which is super rare 1 in 25,000) and she was carrying two babies that weren’t quite twins. They were conceived at different times but ended up being born together. I don’t know if u didn’t cover this because they aren’t quite twins or u just didn’t know about this, but it’s super cool!
One of my friends sister has two uteruses too. She has had children from both uteruses. 3 from one and 2 from the other. I was wondering if they were going to mention this condition too. Now I know there are at least two women with this. Strange though that it is all hush hush in the family, I think it is amazing.
That is so interesting! I think they are only considered twins by the fact that they are born at the same time. They are more like fraternal. Other than that, they are just regular siblings. Different egg and sperm, and most likely different conception times.
Rebecca Roberts on RUclips had 'super twins' - I wasn't quite catching the full name - the rare occurrence where a woman gets pregnant while already pregnant, so they were 3 weeks different in gestational age. They were the 14th recorded case of it happening. I was expecting this to get mentioned too! Rebecca's twins were born on the same day at 33 weeks 2 days, and 30 weeks 2 days from memory, oldest first thankfully, to save confusion about who was really the eldest!!
If you’re fascinated by the guy having his twins kid, there was also a woman who had her twin sisters kids! Her reproductive organs were unknowingly from an absorbed twin, so when she had a paternity test done, the kids came back as his but not hers! Eventually it was discovered when she gave birth to her current pregnancy with legal witness present and immediate tests showed it wasn’t hers either, until they checked cervical DNA samples, which matched all the kids. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
@Steve Right. I looked that up and 1 twin has normal male parts and the other had both male and female parts since their mother's egg split weirdly. Identical twins whose genes got messed up 🤷
My mother was a triplet. My mom and her sister were identical. In fact they shared both an amniotic sac and placenta. They had a brother as the third triplet. They were born at home delivered by their father and a neighbor. They were the first triplets recorded in Waco, Tx. All 3 survived to adulthood. Something unusual in 1930.
I have family in West Texas. Some in Waco, most in Big Spring. Multiple runs in our family every generation. None identical. I have 2 sets of twins. My niece and cousin's daughter have twins. The doctor told me I'd never have another single baby again. I had to test it...
I am an indenital twin. First names Don and Ron I was born 23 minutes later, second I was on top of my twin, so I got fed first and outweighed my twin all my life. I am 75, and now my twin died in 2019 from head in jury. I miss him a lot. So I have outlived my twin, sister, wife of 50 years, both parents. It's just me and my two pets, LIttle Bit, mydog, and kitty kat, my cat. I have always resque pets. I would like to find a sweet spirited lady friend. Thanks 4 reading this. Ron 😊
This happened to my aunt and uncle. He was so small that he was hidden behind her though out the whole pregnancy and didn't show up on any of the ultrasounds.
This happened for most of my Mom's pregnancy. The doctor kept getting on her about her weight, saying she was gaining to much in till all of a sudden we both finally showed on a sonogram later into her pregnancy. I am a identical twin.
there was a women who failed a maternity test for her own kids, and it turns out she had the uterus of a twin she absorbed in the womb, so the test was only positive when sampled with DNA from her uterus. her names Lydia Fairchild
@@sdrawkcabmiay Her sister wasn't and isn't sentient inside her. It's just Lydia, and her uterus is no different than if one were to have a donated body part.
@@sdrawkcabmiay of course, that's how dna tests work and the whole point of the story. But she would have had enough DNA in common to come up as a relative which meant if there was an investigation they would know shes atleast related to the kids which should have raised some eyebrows and also made it redundant to have to test the grandmother unless thry thought she was the biological mother. The father was the father too, so that's extra suspicious too. He would have had to have slept with the same woman to keep producing these children and the woman would have had to be related to the mother. Did the police think they had a secret relative popping out babies chained in their basement?
My youngest sibling was/is a Chimeric Twin. The twin passed due to my Mum's hypothyroidism very early on in the pregnancy. (My Mum didn't even know it existed until it had passed.) My sibling absorbed his twin, but it turns out the twins umbilical code stayed in the womb. During my siblings birth the twins umbilical cord almost choked him to death. My freaked out Nanna removed the cord and did her best at attempting CPR. My sibling is now 13 and healthy. When he was younger he would play with his imaginary friend. He said she looked like him and shared his birthday. He didn't know he was a twin at the time.
I had a friend that is a chimera twin. He was male but also had his vanished twin sisters ovaries. Amd even more rare both his sperm and eggs were viable
My dad was diagnosed with "absorbing" his twin. I guess he had a surgery and the surgeon discovered he had multiple organs, some that were whole and functioning and some that were not fully developed and in odd spots. It was weird. My grandma cried because I guess she was prego with twins before she had my father but lost them in a car crash. It's a whole weird thing in our family.
@@ngirlsdiary oh my god no one wants to here this were here to learn about the science of different types of twins not repent our sins to a theoretical god
I used to be a member of Twinless Twins International, a support organization for twins whose twin has died. A woman in our group was a mirror image twin. She said something that her dentist found amazing was the fact that even their cavities were mirror image. So weird
Speaking of Twinless twins Me and my twin sister are 3 month premature My name is Presleigh, and my mom wanted to name my twin sister Priscilla because she loves the names but my Nana didn't like Priscilla so her name is Greenleigh but she died at 32 days old after birth due to her air stomach. When I learned about Elvis Presley from the movie I started to feel very connected with Elvis Presley
I'm a mirror image twin. I am left handed while my twin is right handed, and when we walk, sits, stands or something I happens to always be on her left side which means she's always on my right side, and it's wired because we do it without thinking about it! I'm proud to be identical twin!
My grandmother was the 15th generation of twins. This included fraternal and identical sets. IIRC, most or all of them were left/right handed pairs. The left handed one always passed on the twin line. My grandmother was the left handed one, but her only living left-handed child was my uncle. Difficult for a male to pass on any twin genetics. My mom theorized that he could have been a chimera or have a vanishing twin.
I'm the lefty too! My dad tried to have my teachers switch me to write right handed in kindergarten because that was what happened to him but my mom wouldn't let him. She told him that I will always look exactly like someone else, and she thought that taking away my left handedness would take away from my personal identity.
@@armodillo7447 Boy/girl twins are always fraternal IIRC. My mom theorized that right/left handedness could have to do with which ovary side the embryo originated though!
Me at the beginning of this video: ah, yes, I understand this information, I am comprehending this with my brain. Me at the end of this video: so... there’s fraternal... and identical... and conjoined... and... bell peppers...
I am a triplet and I find it very strange that people don't find us as fascinating as twins. Even fraternal twins people view as somehow an identical duo with a special bond, but I have never come across anyone thinking that about myself or triplet siblings just because there's one extra of us? Lol. It's like people view us more as three's a crowd to a pair.
@@jater242 Oh wow! So, in other words, somehow, your mom's ovaries had released 3 eggs, and all 3 eggs got fertilized, and resulted in the 3 of y'all being born? That both amazing and really cool!!!
I guess it's because twins are more common and well-known in popular culture. Personally I think triplets, quadruplets etc. are amazing and very special. I can imagine doctors or scientists would also be very interested to study you. Has this happened ?
I remember the news story. The man had no brother, just some absorbed tissue from what would have been his twin brother. No need to suspect cheating... unless he has a secret evil twin. O_O
@@danieloneal7137 Now that you said that, I think it is likely they have tested it. Poor woman (and his brother) probably had a lot going on in their lifes until a doctor had the idea to test for chimerism in his reproductive organs.
To clarify their incomplete story of a man who fathered a child with his twin's DNA,he didn't have a twin.That is,a living one(Making this also a case of a vanished twin).
Daniell Bondad a more clear way to describe it is that this person has two sets of genomes. I mean, what does the separation between your DNA and your twin’s even mean? It’s all you!
That was the story I heard too. I figured it was just a different guy. As far as knowing which set of DNA is which probably has to do with dominance, whichever set of DNA there is more of? Some of them can tell, like I saw a video of a woman who had 2 different skin tones on different parts of her body, not like the melanin condition, it was just a slight difference. But other people probably can't tell, like one mom had a set of fraternal twin, a singleton, and another set of fraternal twins. So her doctor suggested that it might be possible that she might always drop 2 eggs and the 3rd child was just a chimera. In that case he's probably mostly one set of DNA and the 2nd set is not noticeable.
I thank everyone for sharing their stories in the comments to this video on twins. I feel like even a few of your stories would make an incredible doco in itself.
The man fathering a child with his twin's DNA reminds me of this court case I heard of. Basically woman was trying to get child support for her child. They did a DNA test, paternity test came back positive but the maternity test came back negative. Questions of whether or not the woman was running some sort of scam did crop up. They did tests on the woman's parents, confirmed they were the child's grandparents. The woman was pregnant at the start of the court proceedings so they had a court witness in the delivery room who took a blood sample, DNA suggested the woman was the new baby's aunt. If I recall, it was the opposing side's lawyers that suggested the woman's lawyers look in chimerism. Some further testin, the woman's reproductive organs were genetically her twin's. So genetically she was their aunt while being their mom.
Yep. Lydia Fairfairchild in Washington state. And it was indeed the prosecution who first raised the possibility that she was a chimera, after seeing a report of a similar case elsewhere.
I remember hearing about that! So strange and confusing and fascinating. Even if she is technically having her sister's kids, they're hers, no matter what! Maybe her reproductive organs weren't strong enough so the other twin helped her... Yes, metaphysical, esoteric curiosities. I am filled with them!
My paternal grandfather was a fraternal twin. My dad's side also had identical twin girls, one of which had identical twin boys, and one of those boys also had identical twin children. My mother's side also has twins every third generation (my generation). With my luck, I'd get quadruplets or something...
I was next in line to have twins but when I found out that it was too dangerous for me to get pregnant because my pelvis is tilted then I decided that it’ll be better for me to get my tubes cut and that’s what I did
I’m an identical mirror twin. It’s the weirdest thing. We are complete opposites from birthmarks all the way to teeth and personality. I’m majority left handed except for writing, my twin is right handed all the way. Sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re related and came out of the same birth canal. We’re so different sometimes I think doctors made a mistake. Lol. The weirdest part of it all is I ended up with 2 different colored eyes and darker skin than my twin. She has pure blue eyes, milky white skin and I ended up with one green and one blue eye with one eye having central heterochromia and beigey skin. Very odd.
We had a set of twin boys in our class. They looked absolutely identical. So much so that even the mother admitted to having problems to tell them apart. The only difference in them was that one had a mole on the right cheek and the other one had the same mole on the left cheek. They really were like reflections of one another.
If they had moles on opposite sides of the face how did the mom have a hard time telling them apart? I have always been able to tell twins apart. There is always a tell I even when identical. Personalities will be different.
We had that in junior high, But in High School, One twin joined the(American) Football team, the other joined basketball. After four years of commitment, and the Puberty, they DID look like two different people
I’m actually a chimera twin! My parents told me for a long time that I had a “ghost twin”, bc at the first ultrasound there’d been two heartbeats but by the next one there was only one embryo. Vanishing twin syndrome wasn’t really well known back then so they always assumed it was an error with the first ultrasound machine. Until a couple years ago my brother gifted us all DNA kits for Christmas and mine came back really weird. It claimed I should have a different eye, hair, and skin color as well as freckles and curly hair. I thought they’d accidentally mixed up my sample with someone else’s but it also came back as a DNA match to my mother and brother. Later I took another test using a different DNA source and it came back not only as my correct phenotypes but as a SIBLING DNA match to my first test. And I don’t know if it’s this way for all chimera twins, but I have really bad autoimmune problems. The docs can’t say for sure if it’s related but considering my condition is full-body rather than localized I’d say it’s fairly likely.
Hey, I hope you don’t mind me asking but what’s the 2 DNA sources you use was it like saliva for the first one and then like hair for the second one ? Also did you use 23 and me ? I always thought those DNA tests kits let you send saliva only. Sorry for all the questions, I’m just really curious lol
@@micaella2294 it’s np. They do typically always use saliva for recreational DNA tests like ancestry or 23&me, but I’ve had medical tests done for my autoimmune issues that used blood instead, which yields different results from my spit. Funny enough some of the few things my first test (saliva) did get right was that I can taste calcium, am sensitive to sweet but not bitter, and don’t taste soap when I eat cilantro. AKA, the sample taken from my mouth was really only right about the parts of my DNA that affected my mouth.
My friends daughter is a chimera too - she has two different coloured eyes, one is golden brown, the other is really dark brown - and she has two different skin colours that swirl together in different areas.
@@tuathadesidhe1530 That sounds so awesome! I hope she learns to cherish and appreciate it later on in her life. Early on kids will be cruel though I'm sure. :( I once knew a girl that didn't have different "skin colors", but patches of pink skin like flower petals all over her body. It looked really, really cool and in a good way was as unique as her personality.
Chimera twins is one of the most interesting things I've ever seen! I think it's freakishly cool, I hope you don't have too much pain going through life! You're awesome :D
I knew a kid that was a chimera. It was hell trying to get allergies diagnosed because they got different results depending where on the body they did the tests!
I always love to amaze people with twins in my family. My fraternal grandfather had identical twin brothers that both passed when they were 8 months old. My father is an identical twin and is the oldest of the pair. He fathered my younger brothers, again identical twins. The oldest of them fathered identical male twins 6 years ago. So we have 4 recorded uninterrupted generations of identical male twins in my family. We do have a great picture of my Dad and Uncle with my brothers each holding one of my nephews when they were maybe around a year old - 3 generations of identical male twins, Twins having twins having twins!
@@sarantis1995 No, Dad's side came here in the 1800's from Germany and settled in the Kentucky/Ohio area. Mom's side is German came here in the 1900's settled in North Dakota and French also came in 1900's settled in Minnesota. My parents met when dad was stationed at the Minot AFB. I do, however no reside in the central US, in Kansas...
uh, this body isn't big enough for the both of us! no, wait, it is.... *sigh* But we save on movie tickets! Seriously, just a pita when I go to the doctors and some labs are done. I have to explain 'thats normal for me'.
Did you hear about the lady that had her kids taken away from her because her uterus was actually her sister's? Her DNA didn't match because her children had her sister's DNA.
And then there's even fraternal twins that are born at the same time but when tested it results that they've been developing a different amount of months! I've met a woman that had this happen to her, there's a condition where the body doesn't recognize the pregnancy from the 1st weeks leading even to 10-12 weeks, so she got pregnant and then after 4 weeks got her period and thought she'd had a miscarriage, and then got pregnant again and when she got her first ultrasound there were twins. It all looked normal for months and then suddenly she went into labor on her 7th month of pregnancy and delivered her twin boys but one was 9months "old" and the other only 7 and had to be put into care for a couple of weeks. My mind was blown!
I have read about that It is a very rare genetic disorder and most of the time fatal for at least 50% of the patients that's including the child developing and the carrier AKA the pregnant woman
@@christianheichel Of course! I can't even start to imagine every possible way that could've gone wrong, or even the statistics behind each and every step that took place in such an unusual pregnancy.
I met a women who had the opposite happen. She had twins and one fetus had a medical problem and was delivered early; the other was left in to cook for another month or so. They were conceived at the same time, but had different birth days and legal ages.
I had a twin that was stillborn but I didn’t find out about her until I was 32 YEARS OLD, when my mom accidentally revealed the secret I had never known. I was born 5 weeks premature in an emergency c-section because, well, everything went to hell. All three of us nearly died. But ultimately, my twin didn’t make it while I did, and thankfully so did my mom. I was only a little over 2 lbs and was in NICU for a bit, of course. And thing is, growing up, I KNEW all that, about my birth being an emergency, premature, complicated, scary, etc, but my family just never ever mentioned the whole OTHER BABY. They’d been preparing for twins, named her and everything. It’s so sad. I did get a younger brother two years younger than me. Because of my tiny size, people thought he and I were twins. My mom even dressed us alike. I realize there must’ve been some psychological and emotional pain going on. My poor family. But this news has also been a real mind f-*# for me! I keep thinking about who she might’ve been, what she might’ve been like, how different life might’ve been. And my poor parents were so devastated they never even planned to tell me about my own twin. To top it off, I have several debilitating autoimmune disorders and am physically handicapped. So I wonder, would we have both had health issues, or would she have “the healthy one”? How tough that would’ve been. Worse than the competition to be the “pretty one” or the “smart one”. I grew up knowing several sets of twins (and one set of triplets.) Now I observe twins much more closely, and wonder. I really have just been so stunned by that revelation. I don’t ask my parents more about it because it’s clearly still a deep wound for them. I grieve a little, too. A twin I never knew about, a butterfly.
The fact that she was stillborn makes me think YOU'RE the stronger one, so she might have been worst of, live life for you AND for her! You may not have known her but she's with you always! In a way she sacrificed herself for you
I know this isn't one of the above cases, but since we're all sharing :-) Because of they way they developed, the doctors told us our twins were fraternal. For 5 years, I kept telling myself I was being stupid for thinking that they sure looked a hell of a lot alike, but then my husband finally ordered a DNA test. It came back on April Fool's Day, and lo and behold, they were identical. Crazy how all these situations are possible!
shoutout to this show for using Mostly vegetable/fruit images for the multiple types of twinning. i have enough fears about pregnancy and childbirth without added medical baby body horror, thanks
My husband (63) apparently has his twin in the bone marrow in his spinal column. It causes a lot of problems. He has difficulty walking, with no balance and very little feeling in his feet. Very little movement of his feet - especially the left foot. He says he always knew he is to nice and intelligent for one. I then counter with "and too stubborn". 🤣🤣
My twin grandchildren have an unusual story. One baby (a boy) was an IVF baby and the other baby (a girl) was naturally conceived. So fraternal twins in a way but at different stages of development... a rare occurrence. The babies had separate placentas and sacs. The girl was much smaller than her brother all through the pregnancy and they were delivered by C-section at 35 weeks. He weighed 2 kg at birth and she was 1 kg. They were in NICU for many weeks but did not require breathing support, just feeding tubes. The twins have recently celebrated their first birthday and their size difference is still very obvious. He now weighs 11 kg and she is 6 kg. Being bigger and stronger, the boy reaches developmental milestones about two months before his sister. People often ask what the difference is in their ages , our reply is 4 minutes!! They are our miracle twins.
Wow, that is amazing. I know a guy who was also born very premature, and is just quite short and has dyslexia. Not sure how the dyslexia relates, it probably doesn’t, but as he said: “I’m short, can’t even read, and I still get girls, so there’s hope for everyone”. Made me laugh.
@@thiccredgyal3404 Physical milestones like holding their head steady, rolling over, sitting up etc were about 2 to 3 months apart. They got teeth about the same time, started to speak at the same time.
So I am a monozygotic twin. However my twin and I do not look “identical” at all. I am 5’8” 140 lbs my sister is 6’0” 200+ (mostly muscle and bone structure). We had different hormonal levels through pubescent developing years. People through my entire life have continually told us we can’t be twins or “oh so y’all are fraternal?” (Everyone thinks they are the expert..). We were born through a cesarian or C-Section, my father said he was present when the room when the doctor preformed the operation. He told us of how the doctor called him over saying “you don’t typically see this”. He showed that we were in the same placenta (identical twins). We even have different eye color, our eyes look so similar, yet hers are a cool tone green and mine a grey blue. I believe we are what you called semi-identical twins, one egg, fertilized by 2 sperm. Even medical professionals have tried to say its impossible we are identical, but my parents know that we come from one egg. Ultrasounds and the birthing process have proven this to them. In my 23 almost 24 years of life I have never found an answer until now! Even before this video I suspected perhaps one egg and 2 sperm. I am a biology major and this has always fascinated me. Thanks for the info :)) I have always loved this channel.
I went to school with a girl who claimed she and her brother were identical twins. I always thought she meant fraternal but now watching this... maybe she did mean identical. Or that last one...
I have a twin(identical) but we don't look identical,more fraternal (or half and half?)we both have blu eyes and brown hair(but those traits are common in my family)but my twin always looked more similar to my big brother!!So I always had the same questions as u!!. I developed 1 week later but we had 2 amniotic bags and one umbilical cord but we are monozygotic twins!!!I hope i will find answers like u!!
My sister, my unborn triplet and I shared a placenta, the triplet died and we absorved them, but we are fraternal, the placentas just... joined into a big one.
My biology teacher told me there’s a theory that all left handed people are mirror twins who’s right handed counterpart past away. It seemed not very plausible but as a lefty myself I found it interesting
Oof I’m a lefty and my sister is a righty. We’re four years apart (so definitely not twins) but we do get asked if we’re twins a lot. Lol Rip nonexistent/non born twin. I don’t think this is true though because we lefties are our own people like we used to be as common as righties, but then people thought we were devils and started killing us off and we started becoming pretty rare. Yay!
Autumn Franklin no it’s not really. I read this whole thing on it but it’s like if both parents are righties then their first child will most likely be a righty and their second child will most likely be a lefty. There were a lot more statistics and stuff but the only one I memorized was that one because that’s what applied to my family
Autumn Franklin this doesn’t entirely work for ambidextrous people like myself. My brother was left handed and when I was little I copied everything he did until one day I burned my left hand and then I was a righty... now I can use both hands. Although I usually print with my left and do cursive with my right. I do sports left handed and I eat left handed and I brush my teeth left handed but I draw right handed and I brush my hair right handed. Not sure if this is anomalous or normal? Actually all my siblings are left handed except me. My brother and my two step siblings. Oddly, not a single of our 4 parents combined are left handed.
My granddaughters are identical mirror twins. One is left-handed the other right. Hair whorls are on the opposite side. food tastes are completely different, personalities one is loud and extroverted the other is shy and quiet unless they are fighting. One tends to cross her legs to the right, the other to the left. One has been reading since she was four and the other is a talented artist. Their teeth erupted in the opposite direction.
Worse, never prepared to hear "twins" at 3 months pregnant, later during medical checkup exam and Ultrasound at 20 weeks, I asked as a joke "are there three?'" - let me see said technician "yes, here is the third fetus"..... shock! Blessed with healthy triplet boys born at 32 weeks.
@@criminyworldriseedify8962 yes they were born at 32 weeks and 3 ilbs each after 3 weeks in NICU they came home at 4 lbs each - first year was a nightmare but every year afterwards got a bit easier. They are 25 now. tkx
@@anjali4440 over 95% of naturally conceived triplets are a "pair and a spare" identical twins and their fraternal triplet. So yes two are identical and the third is not.
To anyone who has situs invertus and has had be been hospitalised for exams including an abdominal scan, just know you've made the whole medical team's day and we'll all be hoping for a rapid recovery.
I have a buddy with it. Things they don't talk about that the hàirs in there nose and ears don't fully form. He gets sinnus infections alot. He also started lactating, had to have breast augmentation to remove the breast tissue. Real messed up stuff.
I have seen quite a few documentaries about it extra limbs, adult conjoined twins , and teen girls two heads one body both normal able talk drive play sports, I have also seen a case where the one is dominant fully in control the other is mentally impaired . I think being conscious of your situation and stuck to someone would be worse then an extra limb
I know it probably was wrong of me when I was younger but I am an identical twin, but whenever I would have like a bad pimple for example I would always joke it was my other twin. I dont know where I thought to say that, I guess to make a joke out of being twins because everyone always bugged me and my sister about it. We would get stupid questions like if I hit your sister can you feel it. I guess I thought if I joked about it people wouldn't bother us as much about it. But I think the best question I ever got is how do I know which one I was. You would be surprised at how many times other kids would ask that and be serious about it, lol!
You know what would be cool? If that happened on the top of your head so you had, like, hair that was naturally two colors: brown and black, for example, or red and blonde, etc.
My twins are mirror image twins. They were facing each other in the womb. One is right handed, the other is left handed. But they have completely different personalities.
My mom is “twin” but they were actually conceived two months apart!! My grandma was on fertility meds in the 60’s and conceived my mom but still had 2 false periods. She finally realized she was pregnant after conceiving my mom’s brother. No one realized it was twins until the Navy moved them to San Diego, and at that point the doctor assumed she knew. It was what she thought was her 6 month check up when someone said “babies”, and then informed her she was actually 8 months along. When she told them she had had 2 periods they checked again and realized the second baby was too small, and that they must have been conceived separately. They tried to keep them in there as long as possible, because they were sure if my uncle would survive being so premature. They came out about 1 months and 3 months early, but luckily they were born healthy (but tiny) and only needed a little time in the NICU. I still remember my health teacher trying to make me feel stupid for saying my mom and her twin were conceived separately and my mom writing to her to tell her I was in fact not dumb, and it was true lol
This was really interesting, but it was also lovely how respectfully handled topics were. Especially when pointing out how much attention conjoined twins have been given. Thank you for informative production but also sensitive presentation.
Ever since I found out I was having twins I have been fascinated with the science of it. Still don't know if mine are identical or fraternal and now partially identical! Probably identical though...
Kewtie that’s so cool! I have two single children, although my eldest child was big enough to be twins! (10lbs 6oz, or about 4.5kg) You may be able to ask the sonographer or the consultant if they know? Sometimes they can tell by how the placenta and amniotic sacks are presented. Good luck with everything!! Have you though of names yet? I always said if I had twins I would call them Heather and Fern is girls or Paris and Cairo if mixed/boys (Paris is unisex here). But that was when I was a kid lol, I’m kinda glad I didn’t have twins because those names might not be so good lol
@@terryenby2304 Oh, mine just turned 2 today. They are Michael and Calvin. They had separate placentas so they have a 30% chance of being identical. We'll have to do a DNA test to know for sure, but we think identical because they look super similar.
He neglected to mention that when one dizygotic twin dies, they are not always absorbed by the other. One can be miscarried. This happened to me back in the pre-ultrasound days. I miscarried at 13 weeks and within about five days I was okay. Then, a week later (now, I was close to 15 weeks) the same symptoms started -- bleeding, cramping -- so I called my doctor. I went to his office and for some reason the nurse checked me first and told the doctor "uh, there's another one???" So, yeah, one does not always absorb the other. The doctor told me sometimes it happens where one twin is miscarried and the other is born later seemingly healthy.
@@Greye13 I'm *so* happy for you that you got to have one of your babies ❤!!But, I'm equally sorry that you had to experience the pain of losing one of your babies. My heart breaks 💔 for your loss. I'm so glad that you commented this. I don't think I have ever met anyone who had this experience. Almost everyone I've told, they react with disbelief. They can't fathom how something like this can and does happen. My miscarriages happened in 1983 so that's a long time to go and never find someone who has also been there. Maybe that shows it's rarity is for real. Sorry, I've gone on for so long about this. I think it's because I've never talked to other women who understand this unique kind of pain. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I appreciate you! May your daughter always bring you light, joy, beautiful smiles and happiness, have good health and a long life!
@@thecatlady6 Thank you Chaya, your response means a lot to me. It's sad that these things happen at all and I have to wonder how many others like this have gone unreported and such. My daughter has always felt like there's a part of her missing and that she was meant to have a sister. She'll be 18 years in August and watching her grow has been wonderful. I've sometimes pondered what it would be like with two of her running around my life. My answer is always double the joy and sunshine. :) Thanks again Chaya. I appreciate you too and am sorry for your loss as well. I wish you love, light, and happiness. Many blessings.
I also miscarried one twin at about 12 wks. My symptoms were very much like yours. I carried the other twin and she was born with her left hand not fully formed due to either amniotic banding or it was pressed up against her twin. I went on to get pregnant with twins again (2 pregnancies - twins twice - natural conception). I started to have the same symptoms of miscarriage but was able to keep both and deliver to healthy babies.
I once worked with a guy whose wife "double ovulated" every cycle. When she was pregnant the second time and they were told that the odds were that she would have twins everytime she was pregnant, I think she had her tubes tied during the second delivery. It seemed very scary to me because I knew that I was not a suitable caregiver of most any kind. Fortunately, they were both excellent parents and I am now a very old-maid with cats. 😁
You could be That last type of twin that shares 50 to 100% of the DNA I'm not going to try to spell that type of twin. Something with zygotes lol So you could be identical ish
I'm a mirror imaged twin, I'm right handed and she's left handed, and even for most of our lives our noses would slightly turn in opposite directions.... That is until i smacked my face against a wall and broke it......
When I joined the Navy, there was lots of confusion about my DNA. As it turns out, I'm a tetragametic genetic chimera with a near even split of male and female genetics. (Not a hermaphrodite or pseudo-hermaphrodite tho)
@@nika5318 Roughly half my DNA is male, and half is female. As it was explained to me, the egg either split, or there was two of them together (like a double yolk in a chicken's egg). Each then got fertilized by sperm, and then sometime in the zygote or blastocyst stage, they merged into one. Now I have Blaschko's lines from the patchy mashup of my skin (and the rest of my organs) with some areas being predominantly male, and others being predominantly female. I deal with both male and female cycles of hormones (yeah, it sucks twice as much, but like everyone, I have learned to live with it - mostly). And whenever there are articles or topics about how guys are or how girls are, I tend to relate to all of it fairly equally. In terms of how I feel, I'm bi-gender simultaneous (I feel, think, and identify as both male and female at the same time, 100% of the time). But since more of my male characteristics are recognized IRL, I tend to express as a male IRL, and as a female online. Feel free to inquire more if there's anything else you'd like to know, I'm quite open about it. There's also an expert's forum thread where I go into a lot of detail and people have asked me many questions too. It can be found here: forums. nanowrimo. org/t/ ask-me-about-being-a-genetic-chimera/ 117826 (Minus the spaces)
Jeska so because of the skin mashup do you have more darker and visible hair on the male skin and less on the female skin? Are the hormones only affecting the bodyparts and cells to their gender or is the whole body Influenced with both hormones the whole time. Thank you for elaborating.
@@nika5318 Due to the migraines I suffer and my sensitivity to sunlight which aggravates them, I tend not to go out into the sunlight very often. However, when I do, the male patches of my skin tend to tan quicker and change their texture to be a bit tougher (for lack of a better way to put it) while the female areas tend to burn a bit more and stay softer. This is the only time when the differences of the skin are easy to notice. Other than that, the majority of my chest has female skin and is smooth, soft and hairless, while the majority of the skin on my legs is tougher, and has more hair. My face on the other hand is... odd. I have facial hair like a man (mostly), while there's a distinct line on my scalp near the hairline which almost always seems like it's at war for which set of DNA dominates. My hair then looks, feels, and acts like female hair does, as opposed to male hair (as many barbers, hairdressers, and a couple makeup artists have commented on when working with my hair). One interesting bit to know is that I have both types of ear wax in my right ear, with the dry flaky kind for the majority of it and the sticky goopy kind only near the ear drum, while the left side has mainly the goopy kind. As for the hormones, they effect my entire body. I don't have a uterus, so I don't get periods, but I still get the cramps which would come with them as if I did. As for the emotional swings, I get all of that. Also, many guys think that guys don't have hormone cycles the same way girls do (which simply express differently due to it being a different dominant set of hormones), and that idea is predominant only if they are woefully unaware of themselves. People could learn a lot just by paying attention to when they feel more or less "angry at everything" or "chill". Sadly, there's so little education for guys that helps them understand or learn how to deal with their hormone cycles. I think a lot of good could be done if more self-awareness and skills to help deal with and handle these cycles and the feels that come with them were taught to people (guys and girls, tho girls get some of this, which I think helps overall). [Edited to correct some syntax]
As a side note, I see in some of the other comments that there are stories about mix-ups and problems about children with chimera parents. I've had some of these problems myself. (Warning tho, that part of my life is a very real and personal tragedy - So while I'm okay sharing some of it and answering questions, it may not be something everyone will feel okay reading about.) That said, if there are questions about that, feel free to ask.
Interesting! I’m a male with a twin sister, and she had a teratoma cyst on one of her ovaries a few years ago, that needed emergency surgery. She needed a blood transfusion and I immediately realised why it was important for me to donate blood over the years (we’re the same blood type). After watching this, the teratoma could have been any manner of things!
My brothers twin was also a miscarriage, but idk if that has to do with his current condition either cuz my brother came out Albino as well with some mental learning disabilities. Idk if those are related at all but it always poked my mind whether it's connected or not
My twin brothers are monozygotic. They had one placenta, and one amniotic sac (although the placenta was abnormally large). However, they look very different, and have different blood-types. It is my theory that my brothers are mosaic/chimeric, due to the fact that my mother had a miscarriage less than 2 weeks prior to falling pregnant with my siblings. It is my belief that some cells from the miscarried embryo were still present and were absorbed by my brothers. That, or they have a vanished triplet.
Or maybe your mother was still pregnant. Maybe she lost a twin and then got pregnant again(it’s possible to ovulate more that once.) Very interesting story!
My daughter had a vanishing twin. I’ve always wondered if her primitive neuroectodermal malignant brain tumor began as leftover cells from her twin. If so, she bears evidence to her twin in all her disabilities resulting from the cancer. It’s like her nonexistent sister beat her up. We’ve named the twin and I count her in my pregnancies.
Imagine having legs sticking out of your chest for your entire life and then you find out those legs aren't technically a part of your body. Like, just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger, it does.
Want to see an image of this? One of the kids who had this condition was Deepak Kumar from India. Just search for his name and twin or parasitic twin and you will see. He was hailed as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu.
My fiancé had a fraternal twin, but he looked more like his older brother than his twin brother. When he found out that he had lymphoma, and needed a stem cell transplant, both brothers were tested for possible stem cell donors. The twin brother was ranked 4 out of 10 for an ideal match, but the older brother ranked 10 out of 10 and was a perfect match.
yea, a fraternal twin is no different than any brother genetically, it's just gestation at the same time. So theres an equal *chance* for either bro to match him. all 3 brothers got a toss up of a random 50% of ec parents genes. It just so happened that the two that match got the exact same 50% from ec parents, but the 2nd twin didnt.
I'm a twin, have a twin sister, but my mom's medical papers say I was conceived a month after my sister. Apparently 1 in a million sets of twins are like this.
@@minervatanhua2387 I'm going to, you know, use my brain, something which you in theory should also have - you being able to type on this phone and comprehend language would suggest that - and say probably not. Most likely both were born at the same time and the younger went into NICU.
In 9th grade, I talked to my mom about genetics we were studying in school. She told me my twin & I were identical. I corrected her, pointing out all the major differences between us. She said the doctor said "one sac, identical". Did some research, (pre-computer days) & learned identical twins that look nothing alike is possible but rare. (He's a "leftie", I'm a "rightie", he had straight hair he lost in his 20s, I had curlier hair which I still have in my 60s. He was inches shorter with a totally different personality.). Since you did not cover this, can "identical" twins be so polar opposites? (He moved, so DNA test is out) Also, if one twin does something & leaves trace DNA, can an identical twin be also implicated as they share the same DNA after a split?
That has actually been a defense and there has been a case where someone got off because they could not tell which twin committed the crime of two identical twins when they were both in implicated but things like fingerprints are unique so DNA is the only thing you could leave behind That wouldn't be able to differentiate identical twins if there's any pictures of the side of your head your ears are unique finger prints foot prints if he's a different price as you pointed out I would not suggest trying to commit a crime because you have a identical twin because that's just one thing but if that's all they have then technically you could get off with lack of Evidence reasonable doubt
@@shellnet411 actually, I'm curious because he's the one likely to commit a crime. Have read a few cases where that defense was used. Even heard about one with triplets.
Here’s the clip I saw. ruclips.net/video/80ubet6Aml8/видео.htmlsi=bGdbk36YX_JSu9tv There’s another clip from The Atlantic about another set of non-identical identical twin! ruclips.net/video/V0Hp3HnS8M4/видео.htmlsi=386N015uhDCCvYPQ
As a father of twins, I really liked that joke. We had a type of fertility help that often leads to twins, but has a small but realistic chance of more than 2. When my wife had her first sonogram, the doctor said: I see 1 baby, 2 babies... And I immediately said: No more than that, right?
LMAO! I have friends that got in vitro fertilization, and as a result, despite hoping to be lucky enough to just have one baby, they got fraternal twins. It was the same with them, haha. As an aside, I have two kids, and they're not twins, except in the Irish sense... But when I was pregnant with my daughter, I got so big, so fast, that my ex-husband's first breathless words when they were first doing the sonogram, were... Lay it on me Doc, how many are there? Thankfully, there was only one, my daughter... but nevertheless, his response reminds me of yours, LOL.
Hahaha oh my god I feel that. Totally different backstory but I remember the lady doing the ultrasound saying "yes I see a heartbeat ..... And there's another heartbeat" We were like what?... And I can't remember what she said but it sunk in and she handed me a box of tissues and I yelled "Tissues aren't gonna help me now!!" Good times...
@@charlottegrace6656 That reminds me of Monica and Chandler's twins where the birth mom thought "both heartbeats are strong" meant the baby's and hers, not two babies.
My mother had twins, me and my brother. When she was pregnant the next time and went for the ultrascan, she said, if its twins, I'm leaving. Well, she shouldn't have jinxed it, for she was li icky enough to get a buy one get one free sale the second time. That's right folks, four kids under the age of four. Luckily for me, shes done a good job raising us.
My mom’s cousin had twin girls. She and her husband wanted to try to have a son. They got one! And two more girl... That’s right, she had twins and triplets... Twins were barely 3 when triplets were born. They aren’t trying again, because after twins and triplets you get quads, and they don’t need 7 kids...
My father when he visited with us in his remote home town used to delight in asking his old friends which two of his children were identical. His childhood cronies who didn't know his children very well would always pick my 2 sisters as the twins even though they were born 2 years apart. My youngest sister was the same height as my middle sister and about the same build. My twin brother and i were very different from each other. I was a lot taller than he was. Probably a ft taller all through elementary school. I finished growing about grade 8 at 5 ft 10 inches tall and he kept growing until he was about 6 ft 4 inches tall by grade 13.
I’m a fraternal twin, AFAB, and I’ve *always* looked more like my 3-years-younger brother than my actual twin sister. And now everyone says I look just like my mother! Genetics are, indeed, wild.
Yep, I'm friends with a family like that. There's fraternal twins, ones dark brown haired and dark browned eyed, big and tall and puppy dog like with tanner skin. The other one has almost white hair, pale skin, is super skinny and also tall, and blue eyed and kind of mean and agressive. Their older sister looks and kind of acts like the gender bent version of the first one down to the T.
Because fraternal twins are simply just siblings born together... they don't share the same DNA. I know someone who is Caucasian and her husband is black... they have fraternal twins who look so opposite. One looks black the other looks white. But they had another child who look more related to the black twin than the other...and through blood test all the kids are the husband's kids ....genetics are crazy
I had mono/mono twins last year in July.. they’re now nearly 18m . I wonder what and if they’ll have some kind of mirroring. They both also have a mark on the side of the face above their eyebrow that Mirrors each other & I wonder why. Like maybe it happened when they spilt in my body. Miracle babies . They survived cord entanglement and all
I am a twin and mirror image of my sister. I have a non pigment mark on my upper thigh, and my sister has a darker mark on her opposite upper thigh, as if she took my pigment from me.
Very very lucky ! They didn’t have you in the hospital watching for that since about 25 weeks? At the first sign of entanglement they should’ve done a C section. I find mono mono fascinating but very dangerous and yes, it sounds like they are mirrors also ! So cool !!!!
My sister and I are identical mirror twins. I’m left handed and she is right handed. It’s kinda weird, when we were losing our baby teeth, I would lose one on the right side and she would lose a tooth on the left side! She will even feel when I get hurt, only it’s on the opposite side that I actually got hurt on, just like looking into a mirror!
i also got hurt one time on my elbow and my sister said her elbow also hurt despite not injuring it on the opposite side lol!!! i think i'm the right twin
Me and my twin sister use different hand too, but we are not identical twins.. although we do look very similar so it takes a moment to learn to tell us apart.
There’s one set of twins you missed: fraternal twins with different fathers. It has even happened where one child was white & the fraternal twin is biracial, with a black father. The woman ovulated with 2 viable eggs, one being fertilized by one man, & the other egg being fertilized by a different man within a short duration of time, both fertilized eggs implanting.
@@caroljomartin3051 Happened at least once. Twin brothers married twin sisters and each had twins with one of them having a single birth. Could have been a chimera, though.
I often get bell peppers with another small one inside. Didn't realize it was the result of twinning! When I get one, I like to save it for a salad because you get a greater range of flavors and texture (the little one is usually juicier and crunchier) 😋
Me a triplet standing next to my 2 other sisters.... Every adult ever while growing up: Are you guys twins? The three of us speaking at the same time: YES
@@hamstersdailylife4938 non we all just look like siblings we're not identical..people will apparently not understand that 3 sister the same age ate "triplets" idk if that makes anymore sense or not 😂
As an identical twin, leaving aside arguments about the precision of the term, I was chased all through secondary school, by graduates seeking material for their thesis. My parents, and the school principal essentially expected my brother and I to submit to whatever testing was asked of us. This stopped when we demanded recompense. Not sorry about demanding it either as the demands on our time grew greatly, and only at the convenience of the researcher.
Oh yikes! What the hell? Nope! You have every right to a "normal" life. What the hell with your parents though? I mean no offense, but I am a parent of two teenagers and I would lose my mind if people were trying to poke and prod my boys! No freaking way! Good for you and your brother for standing up for yourselves! I am seriously shaking my head at your parents though!
I guess i was was lucky then, I have a marker 8 chromosome and the only ones interested in that were my biology teachers and mostly because I corrected them on the 'everyone with more than the normal amounts of chromosomes is severely handicapped' comment.
@@KarleneE A lady I'd known for ages visited with her big surprise identical twin sister one time and they told us that they were in a study fairly early on at school and told the researcher a pack of lies as the whole business annoyed them.
I’m an identical twin who had twin to twin transfusion syndrome (I was the donor) I had about 8-12 oz. of amniotic fluke in my sac and I almost died quite a few times but I ended up being born at a lovely 2 pounds 11 ounces and I had to stay in the nicu for a month bc I was ✨ smol ✨ What I also find fascinating is that we are genetically identical but we look slightly different and have different health problems (like I have adhd, asthma, anxiety, ocd, and depression and my sister has mild cerebral palsy and is slightly more on the spectrum than I am). We think something happened in the womb that cut off her oxygen supply so a tiny portion of her brain died which caused her cerebral palsy but we aren’t quite sure But now we both live relatively normal lives and plan on opening a gluten free bakery and tea shop :)
My twins too! They had unofficial twin to twin transfusion syndrome because it never fully developed, but they were "identical" from the start. However, one has a wider face and slightly further spaced eyes than the other. The donor twin is somehow even always a little bigger than his brother. Twin A has asthma and twin b has bad allergies that often lead to nosebleeds. Twin A was also in the NICU longer than his brother. They were 2lbs 2oz and 2lbs 4oz at birth.
@@yadayada752 I’m not sure whether a reply was deleted, but you can tell twins are identical because most share the same placenta. No DNA test needed. You can subsequently tell whether they are mirror image if they write with different hands, have different hair patterns etc.
My gf was a mirror twin. She was the left-handed one and I remember her heart was on the opposite side too! Really weird when we first hugged! Edit: For all those saying was, she unfortunately passed away almost a year ago. I’m open to questions if curious Xx
@@shanayazaveri2620 CPR is done in the center of the chest so it shouldn't make a difference. It would however, probably change where you would have to put defibrillator pads
I found it interesting that the Moffat's, a successful musical band from the 90's were a family with 4 boys. The oldest was born in March, and triplets were born less than a year later so all 4 boys are the same age for a month. The triplets were born as identical twins in one sac and the other triplet was a fraternal in the other sac. They all sang together for many years and eventually split up the band. The two identical twins continue to travel and make music together and have retitled their band as "Music, Travel, Love". The fraternal triplet continues to make music mostly on his own. I thought that was interesting and worth a share.
I have 30 year old twins who share more than 50% of their DNA. They are male/female fraternal twins. We have assumed for years that what happened is that they were one under-developed egg that was released and then split to two eggs prior to both being fertilized. I have no idea how whatever happened and I'm "okay" with not knowing - my kids are absolutely amazing no matter how their genetic oddities happened.
my identical twin sisters have one section on one chromosome that seems different. Curious to know if that section codes for wideness in size, as they are one size apart in clothes. One's face is broader, heart-shaped and more like Mom's, the other's like Great-Uncle Art's oval, half Leningrad half Finn face.
Why is that odd? It's normal and easily explained by classic genetics...fraternal twins are like any 2 siblings. Any 2 full siblings can share more or less than 50% DNA depending if they get alot of the same DNA from ec parent or only a little of the same. 50% is just an average guess. Its just extraordinary for it to be like 90% or 10% Ie Dad dna is 20% ec of : A, B, C, D, and E. Mom's DNA is 20% ec of : F, G, H, I, and J. girl gets: A C, half of E from Dad and G, H and half of I from mom. boy gets A, B and half C from Dad and G H and half of F from mom. These siblings share 25% of the same dads DNA and 40% the same from moms. They are 65% the same. It's totally random.
Or they could have gotten 50% of the same DNA from you. It happens even in siblings that aren't twins. They don't necessarily have to come from the same egg. Could be two eggs contain the same DNA.
A high school psychology teacher at my first hs is a mirror twin. They have the same bodies, but they’re literally mirror images of each other. Her sister is more fit, so they’re not the same weight, but they’re mirrored in everything else. Even moles and birth marks.
@@suzip240, Lydia Fairchild is a fascinating case of how chimerism can affect someone's children. Lydia Fairchild and her husband were expecting their third child when they separated. She applied for child support and in the DNA tests, it showed that she wasn't the mother of their children. A court officer had to attend the birth of the third child and immediately take DNA from Lydia and the baby, again showing that the baby wasn't hers. She was in deep trouble, facing allegations of fraud and the threat of having her children taken away. They ran DNA tests of the children against Lydia's mother and found that Lydia's mother was their grandmother. Then did more DNA tests on Lydia; while her skin and blood DNA didn't match, her cervical DNA did match as their mother.
Do you ever talk about twin to twin transfusion syndrome? My girls had that and were born at 28 weeks. This was almost 23 years ago and I am happy to report they are doing wonderful.
No, more like one matryoshka with eleven little ones inside of it when you open it, and they're either shapeless chips of wood or heads with unnaturally tiny bodies.
If my twin and I (identical) had children with another set of identical twins, our children would genetically be cousins and siblings, because their parents would have the exact same DNA.
Brothers, not twins. Parents would have the same DNA, so brothers, but the children wouldn't be identical as each sperm and egg is different 🙂 it would be hard to determine parenthood, but you can tell them apart genetically ☺️
@@aljazslemc9569 You are right, they wouldn't be exactly identical, but there is a chance they could be. Maybe a small chance, but there is still a chance they could inherit the same traits since the parents of both sets have the same exact DNA. You are right though, I was sort of thinking about it like they actually were identical twins.
@@catandchipmunks yeah. It would be interesting seeing that happen, but it's not likely. Then again your situation is already super unique so who knows 😛
I find it creepier that I’d biologically be the mother of my twin’s child and our children would be both cousins and half-siblings. (All of which is far more likely to happen and something I didn’t think about until I was an adult)
Thank you. I found this very interesting. My mother was a mirror twin, and her older sister had a child that was chimeric. That led to chimeric to become a microbiologist. So yeah I have been kind of wrapped up in this stuff myself. Thank you again.
My twin sister took most of my nutrition, it's apparently rare for the nutrient deprived twin to survive. I was 2lbs with critically underdeveloped kidneys and critical kidney function when I was born and she was 4.5 lbs with a heart that didn't pump blood to her heart very well. We were in the NICU for a month and now I'm 33 and in kidney failure/on dialysis. They said she tried to absorb me in the womb but it was late into the pregnancy and we both survived, but had a lot of complications from it. We also are polar opposites in every way...I have blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin and a very boyish body type, she has red hair, green eyes, olive skin, and an hourglass body type. We also have totally different personalities, I'm outgoing and very assertive, she is shy and a bookworm. But we have the exact same mannerisms and we look like twins due to our bone structure. It's so crazy how twins can be so different yet so incredibly similar. We also have what we call "twin powers." She's my built in best friend and my other half. We might not always get along but I couldn't imagine my life without my twin, I am so lucky to be a twin, it's a bond that can never, ever be broken. I love my twin!❤👭👯♀️✌🏻
Omg, I would love to see pictures of you two - lol That is so fascinating, we know so little about twins outside the ordinary. I was adopted... sometimes I feel like there is a piece of me missing. Could I be a twin, do I have siblings, who do I look like?
I work in surgery and every now and then there is a twin to twin ablation procedure done to lessen the flow from the twin who is receiving much more but I believe both surviving is only bumped up to 60% with that intervention. I'm an identical twin as well and it's so interesting to see all the different types of twins.
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Quite scary, but treatable if caught early enough. I watched a documentary about the guy who invented it 20+ years ago.
I used to go to school with twins whose mom had uterus didelphys and they were both born from a separate uterus. I remember her doing a presentation in class about it but apparently, it only has a one in 50 million chance of happening which is insane!
at school with my twin brother: Random person: Are you brother and sister? Me: Yes, and we're twins. Person: How are you twins.... If you are different genders? *X-files (Illumnati) music plays* #Twinning
Another common question I get when I tell people I have a twin brother (I am a girl) is: "WOW! Are you identical?" No sir, that's not biologically possible. Then they follow it up with: "Oh, I didn't mean identical, I meant similar" SAY SIMILAR THEN YOU IDIOT It's surprisingly common.
In southeast Colorado, a farming community, there's a high incidence of twinning - even if there isn't a familial history. I hope somebody is studying what factors are causing it to occur.
And yet another rare twin type I've heard of I refer to as XX/XY twinning(maybe there's another term for it). Basically, the egg cell is XXY at fertilization because of nondisjunction during meiosis and instead of becoming 1 male with Klinefelter's Syndrome, the egg separates into 2 eggs, 1 XX and 1 XY, leading to a male/female pair that besides their sex, have identical genetics. How bizarre is that? An X chromosome aneuploidy leading to mostly identical twins(Identical autosomes and thus things like eye color and a lot of other traits are shared, but different pairs of sex chromosomes, thus 1 male and 1 female).
@@caterscarrots3407 wow this is scientifically so fascinating. yesterday i saw a video of a korean twin pair, having down syndrome and they are male and female!
@@foreveravocado4792 this is yet another type: superfetation. My wife cycles, sometimes, every 2 weeks. Our boys are 2 weeks apart. It can also happen with only 1 instance of intercourse.
@@PlaceholderDoe123 Just wanted to add that superfecundation, while rare in humans, is common in some animals. Cats for instance, a litter of cats can have all different fathers.
@@Grinalbi Or even of different races. I've read of a case where one twin was white (European) and the other was black (African). This was during wartime, and the fathers were soldiers if I remember correctly.
I remember watching a TV show years ago that featured a young man from China, shunned by local villagers, who had a partially-developed twin embedded in his body, with parts of it sticking out. Sticking out of his back was the head of the twin, not fully formed, but still with hair and other identifiable features such as a mouth. The twin was somehow connected to the nervous system of the young man, so that when the young man moved his mouth, so did the twin. It was a little disturbing to watch. Anyway, the point of the show was that a charity group had intervened and arranged for surgeons to remove the twin, which is what they did.
There's also quaternary twins, where two identical twin sisters have babies with two identical twin brothers at around the same, causing both babies to have extremely similar DNA, similar to twins
My twin and I are mirror twins. I'm left handed, my vision is strongest in my left eye, my natural hair whirls on the left. All of that is reversed on my twin. Also our dentist noticed that our dental x-rays are practically the same, just flip one x-ray over and they'll almost line up exactly.
do you organs on different sides ?
Wow... that’s cool. Especially the dental x-rays.
@@Q_QQ_Q Luckily it seems that all of our mirroring has been mostly external. Our organs are both normal. We do have some oddities like one being allergic to certain things and the other is immune.
@@reiakari Yo twin, did you just deleted my comment? That was just a joke
@@PrinceKashyap. I didn't see any comment from you. Someone from the channel got to it first, or it might be an error on RUclips's end.
My father was a conjoined twin so I called his brother...
my uncle on my father's side.
But then they were surgically separated, so now he's my uncle once removed.
Master Therion thats absolutely hilarious
The police have been notified.
@@slappy8941 .He said removed, not destroyed.
L O L
Master Therion you’re a monster.
Me at 10 pm: I should go to bed.
Me an hour later: Ooooh rare types of twins
2 AM*
@@DelennD 5:35 am**
1pm when you should be studying
@@ariv1813 go to sleep.
Me now at 12:15 am
I remember hearing about a woman that had all kinds of legal problems because her children didn't share her DNA. They even had someone in the delivery room when the one child was born to be sure that she was actually the one giving birth.
I don't recall all the particulars now, but they did eventually realize that she was a chimera. I've sometimes wondered when a DNA test comes back negative and the mother insists that no one else could be the father if it's a matter of chimerism.
But they'd be a match showing he's an uncle right?
Had to do with a divorce and establishing custody. Her kids went into foster care. Her stbx and she must have had a last fling, because she got pregnant again, and the rest is history.
You're probably thinking of Lydia Fairchild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
@@lyrebird9749 yes, she's the one I was thinking of.
@mwenyamutale1513 hypothetically there is a way for the kid to not appear as the fathers
heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin.
i.e. Susan and Bill have a 3way with John, and susan becomes pregnant with Bill and John's twins (Sam and Elliot)
the baby's do whatever happens with a chimera, in the mothers womb, swapping cells that will become gonads.
After Sam and Elliot are born and reach adult hood, they get married and have kids. because Sam has Elliots DNA, and Elliot has Sam's DNA, Sam's wife becomes pregnant with Elliot's Genetic kids and Elliots wife becoms pregnant with Sams genetic kids.
if the Susan is also a heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin (ideally one with only one of her twin's ovaries), then its possible that a dna test might not even register Sam's kids as being closely related.
keep in mind, heteropaternal superfecundation is incredibly rare, at about 0.25% of twin births.
Chimeras are also rare, so the chances of this happening are rare.
When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus.
Do I regret this? No.
I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
Dwight, is that you?
quote dwight
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.
This is perfect!!
And impossible to read without hearing his voice... makes me miss The Office...
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"Sir, your son has your brother's DNA."
"It's because I'm a chimera, right? Right? Please tell me I'm right!"
Hahahahahhahahaha
I mean, you would know it if you were a chimera, because you wouldnt have a living brother. I wonder now though whether there are cases of triplets who got out as twins and one got absorbed by one of the twins or both.
@@xxMpEGxx No not necessarily. He mentioned that some live twins are chimeras of each other (both twins have full cells from their twin with their twin's DNA)
@@xxMpEGxx They can be chimeras by absorbing their lower half only. One woman took a DNA test for government assistance and her kids DNA matched with her twin and they were taken away for kidnapping even tho she physically gave birth to them.
That doesn't even make genetic sense.
What about the rare cases of women with two uteri who get pregnant almost simultaneously in each uterus? Technically fraternal, but definitely a unique case.
Uterus didelphys aka Double Uterus usually results in repeat miscarriages though.
Lisa Ryan True, but there have been a few cases like this one: www.health.com/condition/pregnancy/woman-with-two-uteruses?amp=true
As dissapointing as it is, they wouldn't be medically ruled as twins. They would be ruled "Multiple Singleton pregnancies". (I'm didelphys. My doctor was not laughing at my jokes during my prenatal appointment...)
T Massengill Awww how disappointing! Lmao
This happened to my mom when she was pregnant with me!
I have a cousin who has 2 uteruses which is rare, but what is even more rare is that she found out one day that the second one became functional (which is super rare 1 in 25,000) and she was carrying two babies that weren’t quite twins. They were conceived at different times but ended up being born together. I don’t know if u didn’t cover this because they aren’t quite twins or u just didn’t know about this, but it’s super cool!
One of my friends sister has two uteruses too. She has had children from both uteruses. 3 from one and 2 from the other. I was wondering if they were going to mention this condition too. Now I know there are at least two women with this. Strange though that it is all hush hush in the family, I think it is amazing.
I've read about this happening.
@@heatherburrillwell that's plentiful
That is so interesting! I think they are only considered twins by the fact that they are born at the same time. They are more like fraternal. Other than that, they are just regular siblings. Different egg and sperm, and most likely different conception times.
Rebecca Roberts on RUclips had 'super twins' - I wasn't quite catching the full name - the rare occurrence where a woman gets pregnant while already pregnant, so they were 3 weeks different in gestational age. They were the 14th recorded case of it happening. I was expecting this to get mentioned too! Rebecca's twins were born on the same day at 33 weeks 2 days, and 30 weeks 2 days from memory, oldest first thankfully, to save confusion about who was really the eldest!!
If you’re fascinated by the guy having his twins kid, there was also a woman who had her twin sisters kids! Her reproductive organs were unknowingly from an absorbed twin, so when she had a paternity test done, the kids came back as his but not hers! Eventually it was discovered when she gave birth to her current pregnancy with legal witness present and immediate tests showed it wasn’t hers either, until they checked cervical DNA samples, which matched all the kids. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
That's incredible!!!
Wow! Thanks for sharing
I was thinking of that when he mentioned the guy!
I love how her last name's Fairchild.
Woah thats crazy! Thanks for the link!
Sooo there's identical twins, fraternal twins, and everything that can go wrong in the formation of either.
Well no, it's not really going wrong if both the twins survive.
I aM it’s an anomaly
@@trenicejohnson15 So is our existence... But that doesn't mean anything went wrong.
No, there was a third distinct type: sesquizygotic.
@Steve Right. I looked that up and 1 twin has normal male parts and the other had both male and female parts since their mother's egg split weirdly. Identical twins whose genes got messed up 🤷
Someone once asked my twins "are you identical?" My son said, "no, we're infernal."
sarahj 😂🤣
APTLY PUT, LOL!!! 😂😂
Oooh, what a give-away!
Was it a malaproprism (misused word) or was he making a joke? Either way its pretty funny lol.
sounds like he's self-aware 😂😂
My mother was a triplet. My mom and her sister were identical. In fact they shared both an amniotic sac and placenta. They had a brother as the third triplet. They were born at home delivered by their father and a neighbor. They were the first triplets recorded in Waco, Tx. All 3 survived to adulthood. Something unusual in 1930.
That’s insane!
I love waco fun city that's a cool fact
I have family in West Texas. Some in Waco, most in Big Spring. Multiple runs in our family every generation. None identical. I have 2 sets of twins. My niece and cousin's daughter have twins. The doctor told me I'd never have another single baby again. I had to test it...
I am an indenital twin. First names Don and Ron I was born 23 minutes later, second I was on top of my twin, so I got fed first and outweighed my twin all my life. I am 75, and now my twin died in 2019 from head in jury. I miss him a lot. So I have outlived my twin, sister, wife of 50 years, both parents. It's just me and my two pets, LIttle Bit, mydog, and kitty kat, my cat. I have always resque pets. I would like to find a sweet spirited lady friend. Thanks 4 reading this. Ron 😊
Where are you?@@ronaldjohnson5221
no one knew my mom was having twins until about a minute after I was born and the doctor was like, "Uh...hold up. There's another one up there."
Did the doctors not do the routine tests? Like sonography and such. This is interesting
This happened to my aunt and uncle. He was so small that he was hidden behind her though out the whole pregnancy and didn't show up on any of the ultrasounds.
Sometimes one baby is blocking another on the screen, so you would only be able to see one unless the other changed positions.
That's happened to the Bella Twins
This happened for most of my Mom's pregnancy. The doctor kept getting on her about her weight, saying she was gaining to much in till all of a sudden we both finally showed on a sonogram later into her pregnancy. I am a identical twin.
there was a women who failed a maternity test for her own kids, and it turns out she had the uterus of a twin she absorbed in the womb, so the test was only positive when sampled with DNA from her uterus. her names Lydia Fairchild
I was gonna mention her. I was enthralled with that story.
It is fascinating (and terrifying)!
@@sdrawkcabmiay Her sister wasn't and isn't sentient inside her. It's just Lydia, and her uterus is no different than if one were to have a donated body part.
What I dont understand is as the biological aunt she should have atleast registered on the dna test
@@sdrawkcabmiay of course, that's how dna tests work and the whole point of the story. But she would have had enough DNA in common to come up as a relative which meant if there was an investigation they would know shes atleast related to the kids which should have raised some eyebrows and also made it redundant to have to test the grandmother unless thry thought she was the biological mother. The father was the father too, so that's extra suspicious too. He would have had to have slept with the same woman to keep producing these children and the woman would have had to be related to the mother. Did the police think they had a secret relative popping out babies chained in their basement?
I'm actually a TRIPLET! My two elder brothers didn't make it though and now I'm their ambassador to the world
ambassador to the world lmao
The fact you said you’re “their ambassador to the world” proves your worthiness to the title
You have the power of one woman and two fetuses
Highlander of the womb!
That's 😢 sad
My youngest sibling was/is a Chimeric Twin. The twin passed due to my Mum's hypothyroidism very early on in the pregnancy. (My Mum didn't even know it existed until it had passed.)
My sibling absorbed his twin, but it turns out the twins umbilical code stayed in the womb. During my siblings birth the twins umbilical cord almost choked him to death. My freaked out Nanna removed the cord and did her best at attempting CPR.
My sibling is now 13 and healthy. When he was younger he would play with his imaginary friend. He said she looked like him and shared his birthday. He didn't know he was a twin at the time.
It is a sad story, but I am happy that one of the twins is well.
@@AlicaSummer 😂🤣😂
okay, there, dude, who told you that?
What nonsense.
Premature infants are still jestating in spirit and must survive for the full term before they are present and acounted for person.
@@AlicaSummer No. Just no. That's not funny.
@@agentwalrusshe’s partially right tho. Mothers often absorb the cells and DNA of their children, whether aborted or not. That’s what chimerism is.
this video: twins are quite uncommon
my entire side of my mom's family: we're about to end this whole man's career
Same with my mom's family. Skips generations, it would seem.
@@ryanrenn4815 dang, mine doesn't even skip. in my family, it seems the oldest daughter always has the set of twins. well guess what i am lmao.
@@marna3139 That's so cool!
@@marna3139 well, good luck, lmao
I have always been told that fraternal twins are hereditary, not sure if it is true though 🤷
I had a friend that is a chimera twin. He was male but also had his vanished twin sisters ovaries. Amd even more rare both his sperm and eggs were viable
He could actually get himself pregnant.
@@kristingallo2158 The baby would probably be a bit deformed but yeah
So... did he get periods...?
Does he have a vagina?
Friends with benefits on a whole different level.
The next Christ child could be his baby!
If he has the rest of the plumbing to go with the ovaries.
My dad was diagnosed with "absorbing" his twin. I guess he had a surgery and the surgeon discovered he had multiple organs, some that were whole and functioning and some that were not fully developed and in odd spots. It was weird. My grandma cried because I guess she was prego with twins before she had my father but lost them in a car crash. It's a whole weird thing in our family.
💛Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💙.
@@ngirlsdiary hey, shut up
@@ngirlsdiary oh my god no one wants to here this were here to learn about the science of different types of twins not repent our sins to a theoretical god
@@hj6507 Jesus loves you
@@itszbebabaybee true he does. But not you. Jesus doesn’t love you. He told me.
I used to be a member of Twinless Twins International, a support organization for twins whose twin has died. A woman in our group was a mirror image twin. She said something that her dentist found amazing was the fact that even their cavities were mirror image. So weird
I'm sorry for your loss
@@acookie7548 ty
Elvis Presley, I hear tell, had a twin that died at birth.
@BCSoHappy Yes. His name was Aaron, which is why Elvis's middle name was Aaron. He was named after the twin
Speaking of Twinless twins
Me and my twin sister are 3 month premature
My name is Presleigh, and my mom wanted to name my twin sister Priscilla because she loves the names but my Nana didn't like Priscilla so her name is Greenleigh but she died at 32 days old after birth due to her air stomach. When I learned about Elvis Presley from the movie I started to feel very connected with Elvis Presley
The Riverdale writers are frantically taking notes on this video as they get ready for the next big twist
This!!
That would be hilarious.
Hahahaha, I love that comment 😂😂
It better involve Dylan Sprouse.
Omg 😂
I'm a mirror image twin. I am left handed while my twin is right handed, and when we walk, sits, stands or something I happens to always be on her left side which means she's always on my right side, and it's wired because we do it without thinking about it! I'm proud to be identical twin!
My grandmother was the 15th generation of twins. This included fraternal and identical sets. IIRC, most or all of them were left/right handed pairs. The left handed one always passed on the twin line. My grandmother was the left handed one, but her only living left-handed child was my uncle. Difficult for a male to pass on any twin genetics. My mom theorized that he could have been a chimera or have a vanishing twin.
@@b.schurman That's so cool i'm the left handed one, so I hope I will pass it on, I really wants identical twins!
For a second I thought I was a mirror image twin bc he’s left handed and I’m right handed but, we don’t look alike and we are different genders lol
I'm the lefty too! My dad tried to have my teachers switch me to write right handed in kindergarten because that was what happened to him but my mom wouldn't let him. She told him that I will always look exactly like someone else, and she thought that taking away my left handedness would take away from my personal identity.
@@armodillo7447 Boy/girl twins are always fraternal IIRC. My mom theorized that right/left handedness could have to do with which ovary side the embryo originated though!
Me at the beginning of this video: ah, yes, I understand this information, I am comprehending this with my brain.
Me at the end of this video: so... there’s fraternal... and identical... and conjoined... and... bell peppers...
Bell pepper twins are my favourite type XD - i mean imagine giving birth and the midwife pulling out a conjoined bell pepper 😄
i had to start over the last one because i was like what
And a puppy with a tail in his head
And then,there's the bi-polar bears who also become....twins! 🤪😄
You have won best comment of the year award! Yay! Lol
I am a triplet and I find it very strange that people don't find us as fascinating as twins. Even fraternal twins people view as somehow an identical duo with a special bond, but I have never come across anyone thinking that about myself or triplet siblings just because there's one extra of us? Lol. It's like people view us more as three's a crowd to a pair.
@Lauren
Are you an identical triplet or fraternal?
I think it's cool! I have twin daughters. I've known quite a few twins over my lifetime...but I've never met any triplets.
@@b.j.7837 Fraternal. Two girls, one boy, but my sister and I are not identical.
@@jater242 Oh wow! So, in other words, somehow, your mom's ovaries had released 3 eggs, and all 3 eggs got fertilized, and resulted in the 3 of y'all being born? That both amazing and really cool!!!
I guess it's because twins are more common and well-known in popular culture. Personally I think triplets, quadruplets etc. are amazing and very special. I can imagine doctors or scientists would also be very interested to study you. Has this happened ?
“In one case, a man fathered a child that had his twin’s DNA!” Um...
I think it means the dad was a chimera and his gonads had a different genome than the rest of him.
@@danieloneal7137 *Could have been bigger*
Possible case of chimerism or cheating.......
Hhhhhmmmm which one?🤔
I remember the news story. The man had no brother, just some absorbed tissue from what would have been his twin brother. No need to suspect cheating... unless he has a secret evil twin. O_O
@@danieloneal7137 Now that you said that, I think it is likely they have tested it.
Poor woman (and his brother) probably had a lot going on in their lifes until a doctor had the idea to test for chimerism in his reproductive organs.
Mirror image twins have 100% chance of one being a good twin and evil twin in shows
Omg so true! Especially in hindi TV shows and movies! 😂 My brother and I are fraternal twins btw.
Hahahaha
TEST
So true lol
Liv and Maddie from Liv and Maddie are mirror image twins because Liv is left handed and Maddie is right handed
To clarify their incomplete story of a man who fathered a child with his twin's DNA,he didn't have a twin.That is,a living one(Making this also a case of a vanished twin).
Daniell Bondad a more clear way to describe it is that this person has two sets of genomes. I mean, what does the separation between your DNA and your twin’s even mean? It’s all you!
Also heard a story about this happening with a woman. Her children did not share her dna because her womb belonged to her vanished twin.
That was the story I heard too. I figured it was just a different guy. As far as knowing which set of DNA is which probably has to do with dominance, whichever set of DNA there is more of? Some of them can tell, like I saw a video of a woman who had 2 different skin tones on different parts of her body, not like the melanin condition, it was just a slight difference. But other people probably can't tell, like one mom had a set of fraternal twin, a singleton, and another set of fraternal twins. So her doctor suggested that it might be possible that she might always drop 2 eggs and the 3rd child was just a chimera. In that case he's probably mostly one set of DNA and the 2nd set is not noticeable.
Dunmer Warrior I saw that one on tv years ago
@jowalter05 That was the one
I thank everyone for sharing their stories in the comments to this video on twins. I feel like even a few of your stories would make an incredible doco in itself.
The man fathering a child with his twin's DNA reminds me of this court case I heard of. Basically woman was trying to get child support for her child. They did a DNA test, paternity test came back positive but the maternity test came back negative. Questions of whether or not the woman was running some sort of scam did crop up. They did tests on the woman's parents, confirmed they were the child's grandparents. The woman was pregnant at the start of the court proceedings so they had a court witness in the delivery room who took a blood sample, DNA suggested the woman was the new baby's aunt.
If I recall, it was the opposing side's lawyers that suggested the woman's lawyers look in chimerism. Some further testin, the woman's reproductive organs were genetically her twin's. So genetically she was their aunt while being their mom.
Yep. Lydia Fairfairchild in Washington state. And it was indeed the prosecution who first raised the possibility that she was a chimera, after seeing a report of a similar case elsewhere.
I've heard that story. My high school health teacher showed a video talking about it back in freshman year.
This is confusing
That’s gotta suck though never being able to have kids of your “own”
I remember hearing about that! So strange and confusing and fascinating. Even if she is technically having her sister's kids, they're hers, no matter what! Maybe her reproductive organs weren't strong enough so the other twin helped her... Yes, metaphysical, esoteric curiosities. I am filled with them!
My paternal grandfather was a fraternal twin. My dad's side also had identical twin girls, one of which had identical twin boys, and one of those boys also had identical twin children. My mother's side also has twins every third generation (my generation). With my luck, I'd get quadruplets or something...
I wonder if this is a common thing? I have cousins who are twins, and their dad and uncle were twins too.
I was next in line to have twins but when I found out that it was too dangerous for me to get pregnant because my pelvis is tilted then I decided that it’ll be better for me to get my tubes cut and that’s what I did
Not worth the risk
Good luck!
Your family took "Go forth and multiply." seriously, didn't they?
"less than 200 reported cases have been reported" Makes me wonder: how many unreported cases have been reported then?
Ah bahaha
Lol I think he said "how many recorded cases have been reported" though
I caught that too lol
How many reported cases have been unreported?
😂
I’m an identical mirror twin. It’s the weirdest thing. We are complete opposites from birthmarks all the way to teeth and personality. I’m majority left handed except for writing, my twin is right handed all the way. Sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re related and came out of the same birth canal. We’re so different sometimes I think doctors made a mistake. Lol. The weirdest part of it all is I ended up with 2 different colored eyes and darker skin than my twin. She has pure blue eyes, milky white skin and I ended up with one green and one blue eye with one eye having central heterochromia and beigey skin. Very odd.
Wow. It's interesting you say you have different personalities too. Do you feel a strong bond with each other ?
Maybe you had a triplet and are chimera.
Pics or it didn’t happen.😉
Sounds like perhaps there was a third embryo that perhaps you absorbed, hence your two different color eyes…
Interesting 🤔
We had a set of twin boys in our class. They looked absolutely identical. So much so that even the mother admitted to having problems to tell them apart. The only difference in them was that one had a mole on the right cheek and the other one had the same mole on the left cheek. They really were like reflections of one another.
i Used to coach twins like that. Both Girls were 6 feet tall, one had a cheek mole, the other didn't. One was a much better volleyball player.
If they had moles on opposite sides of the face how did the mom have a hard time telling them apart? I have always been able to tell twins apart. There is always a tell I even when identical. Personalities will be different.
We had that in junior high, But in High School, One twin joined the(American) Football team, the other joined basketball. After four years of commitment, and the Puberty, they DID look like two different people
@@betsyadams9670 because the moles are rather small and you can only see them if you stand right in front of them- that's why
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I’m actually a chimera twin! My parents told me for a long time that I had a “ghost twin”, bc at the first ultrasound there’d been two heartbeats but by the next one there was only one embryo. Vanishing twin syndrome wasn’t really well known back then so they always assumed it was an error with the first ultrasound machine. Until a couple years ago my brother gifted us all DNA kits for Christmas and mine came back really weird. It claimed I should have a different eye, hair, and skin color as well as freckles and curly hair. I thought they’d accidentally mixed up my sample with someone else’s but it also came back as a DNA match to my mother and brother. Later I took another test using a different DNA source and it came back not only as my correct phenotypes but as a SIBLING DNA match to my first test.
And I don’t know if it’s this way for all chimera twins, but I have really bad autoimmune problems. The docs can’t say for sure if it’s related but considering my condition is full-body rather than localized I’d say it’s fairly likely.
Hey, I hope you don’t mind me asking but what’s the 2 DNA sources you use was it like saliva for the first one and then like hair for the second one ? Also did you use 23 and me ? I always thought those DNA tests kits let you send saliva only. Sorry for all the questions, I’m just really curious lol
@@micaella2294 it’s np. They do typically always use saliva for recreational DNA tests like ancestry or 23&me, but I’ve had medical tests done for my autoimmune issues that used blood instead, which yields different results from my spit.
Funny enough some of the few things my first test (saliva) did get right was that I can taste calcium, am sensitive to sweet but not bitter, and don’t taste soap when I eat cilantro. AKA, the sample taken from my mouth was really only right about the parts of my DNA that affected my mouth.
My friends daughter is a chimera too - she has two different coloured eyes, one is golden brown, the other is really dark brown - and she has two different skin colours that swirl together in different areas.
@@tuathadesidhe1530 That sounds so awesome! I hope she learns to cherish and appreciate it later on in her life. Early on kids will be cruel though I'm sure. :(
I once knew a girl that didn't have different "skin colors", but patches of pink skin like flower petals all over her body. It looked really, really cool and in a good way was as unique as her personality.
Chimera twins is one of the most interesting things I've ever seen! I think it's freakishly cool, I hope you don't have too much pain going through life! You're awesome :D
Before they realized I was a chimera, they thought my blood tests were contaminated constantly.
I knew a kid that was a chimera. It was hell trying to get allergies diagnosed because they got different results depending where on the body they did the tests!
@@jolenethiessen357 So only certain parts of their body would have an allergic reaction? That’s very cool but sounds like a big pain :/
Wow how did you find out? Is there some kind of specific test?
Why did I think of the chimera ant arc as soon as I saw the word chimera 💀
@@pxrplehalo LMAOO same-
I always love to amaze people with twins in my family. My fraternal grandfather had identical twin brothers that both passed when they were 8 months old. My father is an identical twin and is the oldest of the pair. He fathered my younger brothers, again identical twins. The oldest of them fathered identical male twins 6 years ago. So we have 4 recorded uninterrupted generations of identical male twins in my family. We do have a great picture of my Dad and Uncle with my brothers each holding one of my nephews when they were maybe around a year old - 3 generations of identical male twins, Twins having twins having twins!
Wow
Are you from one of those places in Central America where "European doctors" immigrated after WW2? No offense, I'm just wondering
@@sarantis1995 No, Dad's side came here in the 1800's from Germany and settled in the Kentucky/Ohio area. Mom's side is German came here in the 1900's settled in North Dakota and French also came in 1900's settled in Minnesota. My parents met when dad was stationed at the Minot AFB. I do, however no reside in the central US, in Kansas...
that is truly spectacular!!! Always wished i had a twin :)
WOW!!! thats just amazing! could you upload that pic somewhere and send us the link here!
I WOULD LOVE to see what that looks like!! Mind-bogging!!
Chimeric twins is wierdly kind of heart warming you basically allow your twin to live on litterally through you.
Yes, they might get to be your stomach and handle every questionable thing you eat. Fun!
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 uh what
uh, this body isn't big enough for the both of us! no, wait, it is.... *sigh* But we save on movie tickets! Seriously, just a pita when I go to the doctors and some labs are done. I have to explain 'thats normal for me'.
Did you hear about the lady that had her kids taken away from her because her uterus was actually her sister's? Her DNA didn't match because her children had her sister's DNA.
@@dannahbanana11235 that’s sad, but how did she get her sister’s?
And then there's even fraternal twins that are born at the same time but when tested it results that they've been developing a different amount of months! I've met a woman that had this happen to her, there's a condition where the body doesn't recognize the pregnancy from the 1st weeks leading even to 10-12 weeks, so she got pregnant and then after 4 weeks got her period and thought she'd had a miscarriage, and then got pregnant again and when she got her first ultrasound there were twins. It all looked normal for months and then suddenly she went into labor on her 7th month of pregnancy and delivered her twin boys but one was 9months "old" and the other only 7 and had to be put into care for a couple of weeks. My mind was blown!
I have read about that It is a very rare genetic disorder and most of the time fatal for at least 50% of the patients that's including the child developing and the carrier AKA the pregnant woman
@@christianheichel Of course! I can't even start to imagine every possible way that could've gone wrong, or even the statistics behind each and every step that took place in such an unusual pregnancy.
I met a women who had the opposite happen. She had twins and one fetus had a medical problem and was delivered early; the other was left in to cook for another month or so. They were conceived at the same time, but had different birth days and legal ages.
This could be because she might have had a double uterus. I forgot what the term is.
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I had a twin that was stillborn but I didn’t find out about her until I was 32 YEARS OLD, when my mom accidentally revealed the secret I had never known. I was born 5 weeks premature in an emergency c-section because, well, everything went to hell. All three of us nearly died. But ultimately, my twin didn’t make it while I did, and thankfully so did my mom. I was only a little over 2 lbs and was in NICU for a bit, of course. And thing is, growing up, I KNEW all that, about my birth being an emergency, premature, complicated, scary, etc, but my family just never ever mentioned the whole OTHER BABY. They’d been preparing for twins, named her and everything. It’s so sad.
I did get a younger brother two years younger than me. Because of my tiny size, people thought he and I were twins. My mom even dressed us alike. I realize there must’ve been some psychological and emotional pain going on. My poor family.
But this news has also been a real mind f-*# for me! I keep thinking about who she might’ve been, what she might’ve been like, how different life might’ve been. And my poor parents were so devastated they never even planned to tell me about my own twin. To top it off, I have several debilitating autoimmune disorders and am physically handicapped. So I wonder, would we have both had health issues, or would she have “the healthy one”? How tough that would’ve been. Worse than the competition to be the “pretty one” or the “smart one”. I grew up knowing several sets of twins (and one set of triplets.) Now I observe twins much more closely, and wonder.
I really have just been so stunned by that revelation. I don’t ask my parents more about it because it’s clearly still a deep wound for them. I grieve a little, too. A twin I never knew about, a butterfly.
I'm sorry for the loss you and your family are still dealing with. I can't imagine.
Hannah comforting
@@justincoleman3805 lol!!
Are you glad you found out about your twin or would you prefer not knowing anything about this?
The fact that she was stillborn makes me think YOU'RE the stronger one, so she might have been worst of, live life for you AND for her! You may not have known her but she's with you always! In a way she sacrificed herself for you
I know this isn't one of the above cases, but since we're all sharing :-) Because of they way they developed, the doctors told us our twins were fraternal. For 5 years, I kept telling myself I was being stupid for thinking that they sure looked a hell of a lot alike, but then my husband finally ordered a DNA test. It came back on April Fool's Day, and lo and behold, they were identical. Crazy how all these situations are possible!
A man fathered a child that had his twins DNA.
the twin and mom: *nervously breathing*
OH MY GOD UR RIGHT LMAOOO
I had the same thought (and now I'm going to be THAT GUY), but I think the twin in question had already been eaten.
@@CasualNotice yes. But absorbed would be a less graphic term😅
@@shanayazaveri2620 Graphic? or delicious?
Its also his DNA.
"Blood chimera" is the name of my next metal band
Bophades Nutz SHOOOOOSH PAP
@@vamppanic
mine is "louisiana purchase"
Next... As in you already have some metal bands?
@@mohamadalgendy4950 i have rubber bands
*SHOOOOOOOOSH*
shoutout to this show for using Mostly vegetable/fruit images for the multiple types of twinning. i have enough fears about pregnancy and childbirth without added medical baby body horror, thanks
i wish you a 4 arms 4 eyes newborn :)....or maybe elf ears
Yeah, I kinda ruined all of that for myself by googling some of these terms. 😲
💛Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💙.
@@verreal My mother once dreamt she gave birth to a Raggedy Andy Doll.
@@angieemm googling fetus in fetu may be the biggest mistake i've ever made
My husband (63) apparently has his twin in the bone marrow in his spinal column. It causes a lot of problems. He has difficulty walking, with no balance and very little feeling in his feet. Very little movement of his feet - especially the left foot.
He says he always knew he is to nice and intelligent for one. I then counter with "and too stubborn". 🤣🤣
My twin grandchildren have an unusual story. One baby (a boy) was an IVF baby and the other baby (a girl) was naturally conceived. So fraternal twins in a way but at different stages of development... a rare occurrence. The babies had separate placentas and sacs. The girl was much smaller than her brother all through the pregnancy and they were delivered by C-section at 35 weeks. He weighed 2 kg at birth and she was 1 kg. They were in NICU for many weeks but did not require breathing support, just feeding tubes. The twins have recently celebrated their first birthday and their size difference is still very obvious. He now weighs 11 kg and she is 6 kg. Being bigger and stronger, the boy reaches developmental milestones about two months before his sister. People often ask what the difference is in their ages , our reply is 4 minutes!! They are our miracle twins.
Wow, that is amazing. I know a guy who was also born very premature, and is just quite short and has dyslexia. Not sure how the dyslexia relates, it probably doesn’t, but as he said: “I’m short, can’t even read, and I still get girls, so there’s hope for everyone”. Made me laugh.
How many months apart were they development wise?
@@thiccredgyal3404 Physical milestones like holding their head steady, rolling over, sitting up etc were about 2 to 3 months apart. They got teeth about the same time, started to speak at the same time.
wow❤
@@sandraleech2060 my friend's twin sons were similar
So I am a monozygotic twin. However my twin and I do not look “identical” at all. I am 5’8” 140 lbs my sister is 6’0” 200+ (mostly muscle and bone structure). We had different hormonal levels through pubescent developing years. People through my entire life have continually told us we can’t be twins or “oh so y’all are fraternal?” (Everyone thinks they are the expert..). We were born through a cesarian or C-Section, my father said he was present when the room when the doctor preformed the operation. He told us of how the doctor called him over saying “you don’t typically see this”. He showed that we were in the same placenta (identical twins). We even have different eye color, our eyes look so similar, yet hers are a cool tone green and mine a grey blue. I believe we are what you called semi-identical twins, one egg, fertilized by 2 sperm. Even medical professionals have tried to say its impossible we are identical, but my parents know that we come from one egg. Ultrasounds and the birthing process have proven this to them. In my 23 almost 24 years of life I have never found an answer until now! Even before this video I suspected perhaps one egg and 2 sperm. I am a biology major and this has always fascinated me. Thanks for the info :)) I have always loved this channel.
I went to school with a girl who claimed she and her brother were identical twins. I always thought she meant fraternal but now watching this... maybe she did mean identical. Or that last one...
I think you may like to see the set of identical twins (Megan and Morgan Boyd), but one of them has heterochromia (one eye blue and other brown)
Ashley Johnson i want to meet you just- wow that so so soooo cool
I have a twin(identical) but we don't look identical,more fraternal (or half and half?)we both have blu eyes and brown hair(but those traits are common in my family)but my twin always looked more similar to my big brother!!So I always had the same questions as u!!. I developed 1 week later but we had 2 amniotic bags and one umbilical cord but we are monozygotic twins!!!I hope i will find answers like u!!
My sister, my unborn triplet and I shared a placenta, the triplet died and we absorved them, but we are fraternal, the placentas just... joined into a big one.
My biology teacher told me there’s a theory that all left handed people are mirror twins who’s right handed counterpart past away. It seemed not very plausible but as a lefty myself I found it interesting
Oof I’m a lefty and my sister is a righty. We’re four years apart (so definitely not twins) but we do get asked if we’re twins a lot. Lol Rip nonexistent/non born twin. I don’t think this is true though because we lefties are our own people like we used to be as common as righties, but then people thought we were devils and started killing us off and we started becoming pretty rare. Yay!
Epiccatqueen 3312 oh dang that’s true, is being a leftie genetic? My parents and grandparents are all righties?
Autumn Franklin no it’s not really. I read this whole thing on it but it’s like if both parents are righties then their first child will most likely be a righty and their second child will most likely be a lefty. There were a lot more statistics and stuff but the only one I memorized was that one because that’s what applied to my family
@@Epiccatqueen-un1ew I know lefties haven't been treated kindly in history (to put it lightly) but I thought it was still a recessive trait?
Autumn Franklin this doesn’t entirely work for ambidextrous people like myself. My brother was left handed and when I was little I copied everything he did until one day I burned my left hand and then I was a righty... now I can use both hands. Although I usually print with my left and do cursive with my right. I do sports left handed and I eat left handed and I brush my teeth left handed but I draw right handed and I brush my hair right handed. Not sure if this is anomalous or normal? Actually all my siblings are left handed except me. My brother and my two step siblings. Oddly, not a single of our 4 parents combined are left handed.
My granddaughters are identical mirror twins. One is left-handed the other right. Hair whorls are on the opposite side. food tastes are completely different, personalities one is loud and extroverted the other is shy and quiet unless they are fighting. One tends to cross her legs to the right, the other to the left. One has been reading since she was four and the other is a talented artist. Their teeth erupted in the opposite direction.
Worse, never prepared to hear "twins" at 3 months pregnant, later during medical checkup exam and Ultrasound at 20 weeks, I asked as a joke "are there three?'" - let me see said technician "yes, here is the third fetus"..... shock!
Blessed with healthy triplet boys born at 32 weeks.
Were they okay? Being born so early, I mean?
@@criminyworldriseedify8962 yes they were born at 32 weeks and 3 ilbs each after 3 weeks in NICU they came home at 4 lbs each - first year was a nightmare but every year afterwards got a bit easier. They are 25 now. tkx
were they identical?
Can we hear names?🥰😅
@@anjali4440 over 95% of naturally conceived triplets are a "pair and a spare" identical twins and their fraternal triplet. So yes two are identical and the third is not.
To anyone who has situs invertus and has had be been hospitalised for exams including an abdominal scan, just know you've made the whole medical team's day and we'll all be hoping for a rapid recovery.
If I had situs inversus, I'd get it tattoed somewhere.
@@sohopedeco One of the more sensible reasons to get a tattoo. If I had that, mine would say "Wrong side, bro!"
I have a buddy with it. Things they don't talk about that the hàirs in there nose and ears don't fully form. He gets sinnus infections alot. He also started lactating, had to have breast augmentation to remove the breast tissue. Real messed up stuff.
Agamemnon backwards, too
Eldon Erc There’s supposed to be hair in your ear?
Is anyone else still freaked out that someone can have an incomplete twin’s body parts stuck to them? No?
Ayt
*nightmares*
U never saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My nephew was born with 12 fingers.
I have seen quite a few documentaries about it extra limbs, adult conjoined twins , and teen girls two heads one body both normal able talk drive play sports, I have also seen a case where the one is dominant fully in control the other is mentally impaired . I think being conscious of your situation and stuck to someone would be worse then an extra limb
I know it probably was wrong of me when I was younger but I am an identical twin, but whenever I would have like a bad pimple for example I would always joke it was my other twin. I dont know where I thought to say that, I guess to make a joke out of being twins because everyone always bugged me and my sister about it. We would get stupid questions like if I hit your sister can you feel it. I guess I thought if I joked about it people wouldn't bother us as much about it. But I think the best question I ever got is how do I know which one I was. You would be surprised at how many times other kids would ask that and be serious about it, lol!
You know what would be cool? If that happened on the top of your head so you had, like, hair that was naturally two colors: brown and black, for example, or red and blonde, etc.
My twins are mirror image twins. They were facing each other in the womb. One is right handed, the other is left handed. But they have completely different personalities.
My mom is “twin” but they were actually conceived two months apart!! My grandma was on fertility meds in the 60’s and conceived my mom but still had 2 false periods. She finally realized she was pregnant after conceiving my mom’s brother. No one realized it was twins until the Navy moved them to San Diego, and at that point the doctor assumed she knew. It was what she thought was her 6 month check up when someone said “babies”, and then informed her she was actually 8 months along. When she told them she had had 2 periods they checked again and realized the second baby was too small, and that they must have been conceived separately. They tried to keep them in there as long as possible, because they were sure if my uncle would survive being so premature. They came out about 1 months and 3 months early, but luckily they were born healthy (but tiny) and only needed a little time in the NICU.
I still remember my health teacher trying to make me feel stupid for saying my mom and her twin were conceived separately and my mom writing to her to tell her I was in fact not dumb, and it was true lol
it's called superfetation and it's really cool and weird :D
That happens sometimes (edit: not the teacher thing).
That is crazy! Also can't imagine what thr mom went through finding out she was going to have 2 kids but who weren't actually the same age...
Wow. Could there be two different fathers in a situation like that?
@@ryanjohnson3615 or probably cause of over ovulation (not sure if this is the right term) in a relatively short period.
This was really interesting, but it was also lovely how respectfully handled topics were. Especially when pointing out how much attention conjoined twins have been given. Thank you for informative production but also sensitive presentation.
Screw that sensitive presentation crap. I wanted high resolution close up photos of freaks!
@@tomjacobson7623 ok then
Ever since I found out I was having twins I have been fascinated with the science of it. Still don't know if mine are identical or fraternal and now partially identical! Probably identical though...
Kewtie that’s so cool! I have two single children, although my eldest child was big enough to be twins! (10lbs 6oz, or about 4.5kg)
You may be able to ask the sonographer or the consultant if they know? Sometimes they can tell by how the placenta and amniotic sacks are presented.
Good luck with everything!! Have you though of names yet?
I always said if I had twins I would call them Heather and Fern is girls or Paris and Cairo if mixed/boys (Paris is unisex here). But that was when I was a kid lol, I’m kinda glad I didn’t have twins because those names might not be so good lol
@@terryenby2304 Oh, mine just turned 2 today. They are Michael and Calvin. They had separate placentas so they have a 30% chance of being identical. We'll have to do a DNA test to know for sure, but we think identical because they look super similar.
He neglected to mention that when one dizygotic twin dies, they are not always absorbed by the other.
One can be miscarried. This happened to me back in the pre-ultrasound days. I miscarried at 13 weeks and within about five days I was okay. Then, a week later (now, I was close to 15 weeks) the same symptoms started -- bleeding, cramping -- so I called my doctor. I went to his office and for some reason the nurse checked me first and told the doctor "uh, there's another one???"
So, yeah, one does not always absorb the other. The doctor told me sometimes it happens where one twin is miscarried and the other is born later seemingly healthy.
That's what happened to me. My daughter was born healthy, but her twin miscarried at about one month.
@@Greye13 I'm *so* happy for you that you got to have one of your babies ❤!!But, I'm equally sorry that you had to experience the pain of losing one of your babies. My heart breaks 💔 for your loss.
I'm so glad that you commented this. I don't think I have ever met anyone who had this experience. Almost everyone I've told, they react with disbelief. They can't fathom how something like this can and does happen. My miscarriages happened in 1983 so that's a long time to go and never find someone who has also been there. Maybe that shows it's rarity is for real.
Sorry, I've gone on for so long about this. I think it's because I've never talked to other women who understand this unique kind of pain. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I appreciate you!
May your daughter always bring you light, joy, beautiful smiles and happiness, have good health and a long life!
@@thecatlady6 Thank you Chaya, your response means a lot to me. It's sad that these things happen at all and I have to wonder how many others like this have gone unreported and such. My daughter has always felt like there's a part of her missing and that she was meant to have a sister. She'll be 18 years in August and watching her grow has been wonderful. I've sometimes pondered what it would be like with two of her running around my life. My answer is always double the joy and sunshine. :) Thanks again Chaya. I appreciate you too and am sorry for your loss as well. I wish you love, light, and happiness. Many blessings.
@@Greye13 ❤, thank you!
I also miscarried one twin at about 12 wks. My symptoms were very much like yours. I carried the other twin and she was born with her left hand not fully formed due to either amniotic banding or it was pressed up against her twin.
I went on to get pregnant with twins again (2 pregnancies - twins twice - natural conception). I started to have the same symptoms of miscarriage but was able to keep both and deliver to healthy babies.
I once worked with a guy whose wife "double ovulated" every cycle. When she was pregnant the second time and they were told that the odds were that she would have twins everytime she was pregnant, I think she had her tubes tied during the second delivery. It seemed very scary to me because I knew that I was not a suitable caregiver of most any kind. Fortunately, they were both excellent parents and I am now a very old-maid with cats. 😁
"Old", but 🤩 fabulous in yr own way, I'm sure!!
Nothing wrong with cats.
When I tell people that i have a twin sister and they’re like.. “are you identical!?!”... I’m a man.. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
You could be That last type of twin that shares 50 to 100% of the DNA I'm not going to try to spell that type of twin. Something with zygotes lol
So you could be identical ish
Chris Heichel For sure, we have identical features.. eyes, nose and mouth shape but that’s about it. I’m also about a foot taller than her though lol
@@darthsilversith667 That's cool you've got a twin, hopefully close
Chris Heichel Definitely!
Ok Paul
I'm a mirror imaged twin, I'm right handed and she's left handed, and even for most of our lives our noses would slightly turn in opposite directions.... That is until i smacked my face against a wall and broke it......
That's interesting. Is your nose ok?
i feel bad for laughing dshdjshsb
Fire 3334 that is not where i was expecting that to go 😂
As her twin I can validate this statement lol
I hope you are oké😢🤧❤🥺😞🤲
When I joined the Navy, there was lots of confusion about my DNA.
As it turns out, I'm a tetragametic genetic chimera with a near even split of male and female genetics.
(Not a hermaphrodite or pseudo-hermaphrodite tho)
Jeska what does that mean though? How do the male genetics affect you?
@@nika5318 Roughly half my DNA is male, and half is female. As it was explained to me, the egg either split, or there was two of them together (like a double yolk in a chicken's egg). Each then got fertilized by sperm, and then sometime in the zygote or blastocyst stage, they merged into one.
Now I have Blaschko's lines from the patchy mashup of my skin (and the rest of my organs) with some areas being predominantly male, and others being predominantly female.
I deal with both male and female cycles of hormones (yeah, it sucks twice as much, but like everyone, I have learned to live with it - mostly). And whenever there are articles or topics about how guys are or how girls are, I tend to relate to all of it fairly equally.
In terms of how I feel, I'm bi-gender simultaneous (I feel, think, and identify as both male and female at the same time, 100% of the time). But since more of my male characteristics are recognized IRL, I tend to express as a male IRL, and as a female online.
Feel free to inquire more if there's anything else you'd like to know, I'm quite open about it. There's also an expert's forum thread where I go into a lot of detail and people have asked me many questions too. It can be found here:
forums. nanowrimo. org/t/ ask-me-about-being-a-genetic-chimera/ 117826
(Minus the spaces)
Jeska so because of the skin mashup do you have more darker and visible hair on the male skin and less on the female skin? Are the hormones only affecting the bodyparts and cells to their gender or is the whole body Influenced with both hormones the whole time. Thank you for elaborating.
@@nika5318 Due to the migraines I suffer and my sensitivity to sunlight which aggravates them, I tend not to go out into the sunlight very often. However, when I do, the male patches of my skin tend to tan quicker and change their texture to be a bit tougher (for lack of a better way to put it) while the female areas tend to burn a bit more and stay softer. This is the only time when the differences of the skin are easy to notice. Other than that, the majority of my chest has female skin and is smooth, soft and hairless, while the majority of the skin on my legs is tougher, and has more hair.
My face on the other hand is... odd. I have facial hair like a man (mostly), while there's a distinct line on my scalp near the hairline which almost always seems like it's at war for which set of DNA dominates. My hair then looks, feels, and acts like female hair does, as opposed to male hair (as many barbers, hairdressers, and a couple makeup artists have commented on when working with my hair).
One interesting bit to know is that I have both types of ear wax in my right ear, with the dry flaky kind for the majority of it and the sticky goopy kind only near the ear drum, while the left side has mainly the goopy kind.
As for the hormones, they effect my entire body. I don't have a uterus, so I don't get periods, but I still get the cramps which would come with them as if I did. As for the emotional swings, I get all of that.
Also, many guys think that guys don't have hormone cycles the same way girls do (which simply express differently due to it being a different dominant set of hormones), and that idea is predominant only if they are woefully unaware of themselves. People could learn a lot just by paying attention to when they feel more or less "angry at everything" or "chill". Sadly, there's so little education for guys that helps them understand or learn how to deal with their hormone cycles. I think a lot of good could be done if more self-awareness and skills to help deal with and handle these cycles and the feels that come with them were taught to people (guys and girls, tho girls get some of this, which I think helps overall).
[Edited to correct some syntax]
As a side note, I see in some of the other comments that there are stories about mix-ups and problems about children with chimera parents. I've had some of these problems myself. (Warning tho, that part of my life is a very real and personal tragedy - So while I'm okay sharing some of it and answering questions, it may not be something everyone will feel okay reading about.)
That said, if there are questions about that, feel free to ask.
Interesting! I’m a male with a twin sister, and she had a teratoma cyst on one of her ovaries a few years ago, that needed emergency surgery. She needed a blood transfusion and I immediately realised why it was important for me to donate blood over the years (we’re the same blood type). After watching this, the teratoma could have been any manner of things!
I was a twin in the womb. I didn’t absorb my twin. He was miscarriaged so... I’m a twin that’s a only child
Edit: Damn, thanks for all the likes lmao
:(
Happend to my brother also. He is identical but only one survived birth.
My brothers twin was also a miscarriage, but idk if that has to do with his current condition either cuz my brother came out Albino as well with some mental learning disabilities. Idk if those are related at all but it always poked my mind whether it's connected or not
Same I was a faternal twin. But my twin was miscarried.
Jinhua Official me as well!
My twin brothers are monozygotic. They had one placenta, and one amniotic sac (although the placenta was abnormally large). However, they look very different, and have different blood-types. It is my theory that my brothers are mosaic/chimeric, due to the fact that my mother had a miscarriage less than 2 weeks prior to falling pregnant with my siblings. It is my belief that some cells from the miscarried embryo were still present and were absorbed by my brothers.
That, or they have a vanished triplet.
Or maybe your mother was still pregnant. Maybe she lost a twin and then got pregnant again(it’s possible to ovulate more that once.) Very interesting story!
This video makes me happy to have made it out of the womb... without any extra bits or missing bits or whatever
LOOOL indeed
That you know of...
My pinky finger has a little chunk taken out . But whatever
You're lucky to have survived mom's body attacking the intrusion. Most often, the menstruation carries out its mission
My daughter had a vanishing twin. I’ve always wondered if her primitive neuroectodermal malignant brain tumor began as leftover cells from her twin. If so, she bears evidence to her twin in all her disabilities resulting from the cancer. It’s like her nonexistent sister beat her up. We’ve named the twin and I count her in my pregnancies.
Wow.
Sorry to hear about your daughter's medical problems. I hope she can beat the cancer.
Imagine having legs sticking out of your chest for your entire life and then you find out those legs aren't technically a part of your body. Like, just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger, it does.
Want to see an image of this? One of the kids who had this condition was Deepak Kumar from India. Just search for his name and twin or parasitic twin and you will see. He was hailed as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu.
Oh gosh then come the arguments of whether or not the person can have the legs removed since it isn’t part of their body and it can’t consent
My fiancé had a fraternal twin, but he looked more like his older brother than his twin brother. When he found out that he had lymphoma, and needed a stem cell transplant, both brothers were tested for possible stem cell donors. The twin brother was ranked 4 out of 10 for an ideal match, but the older brother ranked 10 out of 10 and was a perfect match.
This is a bit extraordinary of a difference between the two comparing pairs of siblings, yet normally explained using classical genetics
yea, a fraternal twin is no different than any brother genetically, it's just gestation at the same time. So theres an equal *chance* for either bro to match him. all 3 brothers got a toss up of a random 50% of ec parents genes. It just so happened that the two that match got the exact same 50% from ec parents, but the 2nd twin didnt.
With a little bit of luck two twins may have different fathers.
@@larsjonasson2959 it’s possible, but more likely to happen in Soap Operas.
What a blessing! 🙏♥️
I'm a twin, have a twin sister, but my mom's medical papers say I was conceived a month after my sister. Apparently 1 in a million sets of twins are like this.
Source of that?
So the labour took a month?
@@minervatanhua2387 I'm going to, you know, use my brain, something which you in theory should also have - you being able to type on this phone and comprehend language would suggest that - and say probably not. Most likely both were born at the same time and the younger went into NICU.
@@Warrior_of_Symbolica excuse me, but what is NICU?
@@carcher3279 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive_care_unit
In 9th grade, I talked to my mom about genetics we were studying in school. She told me my twin & I were identical. I corrected her, pointing out all the major differences between us. She said the doctor said "one sac, identical". Did some research, (pre-computer days) & learned identical twins that look nothing alike is possible but rare. (He's a "leftie", I'm a "rightie", he had straight hair he lost in his 20s, I had curlier hair which I still have in my 60s. He was inches shorter with a totally different personality.). Since you did not cover this, can "identical" twins be so polar opposites? (He moved, so DNA test is out) Also, if one twin does something & leaves trace DNA, can an identical twin be also implicated as they share the same DNA after a split?
That has actually been a defense and there has been a case where someone got off because they could not tell which twin committed the crime of two identical twins when they were both in implicated but things like fingerprints are unique so DNA is the only thing you could leave behind That wouldn't be able to differentiate identical twins if there's any pictures of the side of your head your ears are unique finger prints foot prints if he's a different price as you pointed out I would not suggest trying to commit a crime because you have a identical twin because that's just one thing but if that's all they have then technically you could get off with lack of Evidence reasonable doubt
@@shellnet411 actually, I'm curious because he's the one likely to commit a crime. Have read a few cases where that defense was used. Even heard about one with triplets.
I have seen a short documentary about an identical twin who look polar opposite.
Hold on! I will find that for you!
Here’s the clip I saw.
ruclips.net/video/80ubet6Aml8/видео.htmlsi=bGdbk36YX_JSu9tv
There’s another clip from The Atlantic about another set of non-identical identical twin!
ruclips.net/video/V0Hp3HnS8M4/видео.htmlsi=386N015uhDCCvYPQ
As a father of twins, I really liked that joke.
We had a type of fertility help that often leads to twins, but has a small but realistic chance of more than 2.
When my wife had her first sonogram, the doctor said: I see 1 baby, 2 babies...
And I immediately said: No more than that, right?
LMAO! I have friends that got in vitro fertilization, and as a result, despite hoping to be lucky enough to just have one baby, they got fraternal twins. It was the same with them, haha. As an aside, I have two kids, and they're not twins, except in the Irish sense... But when I was pregnant with my daughter, I got so big, so fast, that my ex-husband's first breathless words when they were first doing the sonogram, were... Lay it on me Doc, how many are there? Thankfully, there was only one, my daughter... but nevertheless, his response reminds me of yours, LOL.
Hahaha oh my god I feel that.
Totally different backstory but I remember the lady doing the ultrasound saying "yes I see a heartbeat ..... And there's another heartbeat"
We were like what?... And I can't remember what she said but it sunk in and she handed me a box of tissues and I yelled "Tissues aren't gonna help me now!!"
Good times...
One baby, two babies, THREE babies, Mwahahaha!
@@charlottegrace6656 That reminds me of Monica and Chandler's twins where the birth mom thought "both heartbeats are strong" meant the baby's and hers, not two babies.
My mother had twins, me and my brother. When she was pregnant the next time and went for the ultrascan, she said, if its twins, I'm leaving. Well, she shouldn't have jinxed it, for she was li icky enough to get a buy one get one free sale the second time.
That's right folks, four kids under the age of four. Luckily for me, shes done a good job raising us.
Good for her sticking it out! I've been in a 3-with-the-oldest-at-3yo house, so I can only imagine the chaos was exponentional.
Roger Federer had twin girls then twin boys. And his sister had twins as well.
My mom’s cousin had twin girls. She and her husband wanted to try to have a son. They got one! And two more girl... That’s right, she had twins and triplets... Twins were barely 3 when triplets were born.
They aren’t trying again, because after twins and triplets you get quads, and they don’t need 7 kids...
@@sarahwithanh9758 Since they have twins and triplets, they currently have 5. If they have quads next that equals 9, not 7.
@@sandrahale1862 Oops, yeah, you're right. I don't know where that math came from. XD
I am a fraternal twin and we could not look more different, however we have an older brother that I look identical too. genetics are wild
Like my twins so unlike one left handed other right hand but say things at the same time body movements wakeup sleep
My father when he visited with us in his remote home town used to delight in asking his old friends which two of his children were identical. His childhood cronies who didn't know his children very well would always pick my 2 sisters as the twins even though they were born 2 years apart. My youngest sister was the same height as my middle sister and about the same build. My twin brother and i were very different from each other. I was a lot taller than he was. Probably a ft taller all through elementary school. I finished growing about grade 8 at 5 ft 10 inches tall and he kept growing until he was about 6 ft 4 inches tall by grade 13.
I’m a fraternal twin, AFAB, and I’ve *always* looked more like my 3-years-younger brother than my actual twin sister. And now everyone says I look just like my mother! Genetics are, indeed, wild.
Yep, I'm friends with a family like that. There's fraternal twins, ones dark brown haired and dark browned eyed, big and tall and puppy dog like with tanner skin. The other one has almost white hair, pale skin, is super skinny and also tall, and blue eyed and kind of mean and agressive. Their older sister looks and kind of acts like the gender bent version of the first one down to the T.
Because fraternal twins are simply just siblings born together... they don't share the same DNA. I know someone who is Caucasian and her husband is black... they have fraternal twins who look so opposite. One looks black the other looks white. But they had another child who look more related to the black twin than the other...and through blood test all the kids are the husband's kids ....genetics are crazy
I had mono/mono twins last year in July.. they’re now nearly 18m . I wonder what and if they’ll have some kind of mirroring. They both also have a mark on the side of the face above their eyebrow that Mirrors each other & I wonder why. Like maybe it happened when they spilt in my body. Miracle babies . They survived cord entanglement and all
I am a twin and mirror image of my sister. I have a non pigment mark on my upper thigh, and my sister has a darker mark on her opposite upper thigh, as if she took my pigment from me.
Very very lucky ! They didn’t have you in the hospital watching for that since about 25 weeks? At the first sign of entanglement they should’ve done a C section. I find mono mono fascinating but very dangerous and yes, it sounds like they are mirrors also ! So cool !!!!
My sister and I are identical mirror twins. I’m left handed and she is right handed. It’s kinda weird, when we were losing our baby teeth, I would lose one on the right side and she would lose a tooth on the left side! She will even feel when I get hurt, only it’s on the opposite side that I actually got hurt on, just like looking into a mirror!
💛Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💙.
i also got hurt one time on my elbow and my sister said her elbow also hurt despite not injuring it on the opposite side lol!!! i think i'm the right twin
@@ngirlsdiary kind of rude to assume I have any sins bro
Me and my twin sister use different hand too, but we are not identical twins.. although we do look very similar so it takes a moment to learn to tell us apart.
@@savageraccoon787 its not rude its just truth, everyone one has sinned whether they want to admit it or not
There’s one set of twins you missed: fraternal twins with different fathers. It has even happened where one child was white & the fraternal twin is biracial, with a black father. The woman ovulated with 2 viable eggs, one being fertilized by one man, & the other egg being fertilized by a different man within a short duration of time, both fertilized eggs implanting.
This
Heraclese was one
yes black father white mother faternal twin babys one had dominant red hair fair skin , the other miloto
Someone was cheating...
Ian Gates I corrected your spelling on the “M” word, & RUclips censored it twice. Biracial is the preferred term, regardless
I was 100% ready for this to be 3 pairs of twin types instead of a normal list of 6.
If identical twins married identical twins, their kids would be brothers or sisters AND cousins.
@@caroljomartin3051 Happened at least once. Twin brothers married twin sisters and each had twins with one of them having a single birth. Could have been a chimera, though.
Carol Jo Martin If their kids had kids what relationship would the kids’ kids have?
Pi an incest one.
@@alexwang982 They would be in superposition between cousins and second cousins.
I often get bell peppers with another small one inside. Didn't realize it was the result of twinning! When I get one, I like to save it for a salad because you get a greater range of flavors and texture (the little one is usually juicier and crunchier) 😋
Me a triplet standing next to my 2 other sisters....
Every adult ever while growing up: Are you guys twins?
The three of us speaking at the same time: YES
I would pay to see this 😂
twins?
Lolol
So you’re telling me that you’re the only one of the triplets that don’t look identical to your siblings?
@@hamstersdailylife4938 non we all just look like siblings we're not identical..people will apparently not understand that 3 sister the same age ate "triplets" idk if that makes anymore sense or not 😂
As an identical twin, leaving aside arguments about the precision of the term, I was chased all through secondary school, by graduates seeking material for their thesis. My parents, and the school principal essentially expected my brother and I to submit to whatever testing was asked of us. This stopped when we demanded recompense. Not sorry about demanding it either as the demands on our time grew greatly, and only at the convenience of the researcher.
Dang that’s just...just trashy
Oh yikes! What the hell? Nope! You have every right to a "normal" life. What the hell with your parents though? I mean no offense, but I am a parent of two teenagers and I would lose my mind if people were trying to poke and prod my boys! No freaking way! Good for you and your brother for standing up for yourselves! I am seriously shaking my head at your parents though!
I guess i was was lucky then, I have a marker 8 chromosome and the only ones interested in that were my biology teachers and mostly because I corrected them on the 'everyone with more than the normal amounts of chromosomes is severely handicapped' comment.
@@KarleneE A lady I'd known for ages visited with her big surprise identical twin sister one time and they told us that they were in a study fairly early on at school and told the researcher a pack of lies as the whole business annoyed them.
My brother and I were born conjoined twins. To separate us they had to remove the entire left side of my body.
I'm all right now.
I thought this was serious 😂
@@katyungodly lol me too xd
Wtf 🤬
@@tangiechapman6219 why are you so mad?
What's left of your twin?
Such an incredibly interesting video, and this guy has an awesome cadence to help make this topic interesting to those who are less interested.
I’m an identical twin who had twin to twin transfusion syndrome (I was the donor) I had about 8-12 oz. of amniotic fluke in my sac and I almost died quite a few times but I ended up being born at a lovely 2 pounds 11 ounces and I had to stay in the nicu for a month bc I was ✨ smol ✨
What I also find fascinating is that we are genetically identical but we look slightly different and have different health problems (like I have adhd, asthma, anxiety, ocd, and depression and my sister has mild cerebral palsy and is slightly more on the spectrum than I am). We think something happened in the womb that cut off her oxygen supply so a tiny portion of her brain died which caused her cerebral palsy but we aren’t quite sure
But now we both live relatively normal lives and plan on opening a gluten free bakery and tea shop :)
I have a twin who also has cerebral palsy. We are fraternal twins
Love it I'm gluten free 💚💚💚
omg i wish you guys luck on your shop!!!!!!!!
My twins too! They had unofficial twin to twin transfusion syndrome because it never fully developed, but they were "identical" from the start. However, one has a wider face and slightly further spaced eyes than the other. The donor twin is somehow even always a little bigger than his brother. Twin A has asthma and twin b has bad allergies that often lead to nosebleeds. Twin A was also in the NICU longer than his brother. They were 2lbs 2oz and 2lbs 4oz at birth.
Okay this is a little weird, but I’m also a donor twin due to twin-twin transfusion, and I was also 2lbs 11oz when I was born! Twins!
I'm a mirror image twin. I am right handed while my twin is left handed. We have mirroring hair whorls, too.
And, I ask myself about why you would do a DNA test on twins? It isn't an automatic thing.
@@yadayada752
Depends on how long ago you were born. I knew a pair of mirror twins years ago, they'd be in the late 60's now
@@cerdwynable I'm older than that. And, all I said was it isn't NORMALLY done.
@@yadayada752 I’m not sure whether a reply was deleted, but you can tell twins are identical because most share the same placenta. No DNA test needed. You can subsequently tell whether they are mirror image if they write with different hands, have different hair patterns etc.
Fun stuff, my sons are mirror twins 🙂🙃
My gf was a mirror twin. She was the left-handed one and I remember her heart was on the opposite side too! Really weird when we first hugged!
Edit: For all those saying was, she unfortunately passed away almost a year ago. I’m open to questions if curious Xx
I wonder how CPR works on someone whose heart is on the opposite side
@@shanayazaveri2620 CPR is done in the center of the chest so it shouldn't make a difference. It would however, probably change where you would have to put defibrillator pads
Was? Why, did smtg happen to her? :O
Im a mirrors twin . And my great grandmother was one too . And her heart was " backwards" her body was donated when she passed.
Hugging her felt the same tho 🤷🏼♀️
I found it interesting that the Moffat's, a successful musical band from the 90's were a family with 4 boys. The oldest was born in March, and triplets were born less than a year later so all 4 boys are the same age for a month. The triplets were born as identical twins in one sac and the other triplet was a fraternal in the other sac. They all sang together for many years and eventually split up the band. The two identical twins continue to travel and make music together and have retitled their band as "Music, Travel, Love". The fraternal triplet continues to make music mostly on his own. I thought that was interesting and worth a share.
I have 30 year old twins who share more than 50% of their DNA. They are male/female fraternal twins. We have assumed for years that what happened is that they were one under-developed egg that was released and then split to two eggs prior to both being fertilized. I have no idea how whatever happened and I'm "okay" with not knowing - my kids are absolutely amazing no matter how their genetic oddities happened.
Uff da.....I wonder if "odd" is still politically correct description? 🤔
@@christinatweet6580 keep going and we wont be able to say any words.. words will become illegal.
my identical twin sisters have one section on one chromosome that seems different. Curious to know if that section codes for wideness in size, as they are one size apart in clothes. One's face is broader, heart-shaped and more like Mom's, the other's like Great-Uncle Art's oval, half Leningrad half Finn face.
Why is that odd? It's normal and easily explained by classic genetics...fraternal twins are like any 2 siblings. Any 2 full siblings can share more or less than 50% DNA depending if they get alot of the same DNA from ec parent or only a little of the same. 50% is just an average guess. Its just extraordinary for it to be like 90% or 10%
Ie
Dad dna is 20% ec of : A, B, C, D, and E.
Mom's DNA is 20% ec of : F, G, H, I, and J.
girl gets: A C, half of E from Dad and G, H and half of I from mom.
boy gets A, B and half C from Dad and G H and half of F from mom.
These siblings share 25% of the same dads DNA and 40% the same from moms.
They are 65% the same. It's totally random.
Or they could have gotten 50% of the same DNA from you. It happens even in siblings that aren't twins. They don't necessarily have to come from the same egg. Could be two eggs contain the same DNA.
A high school psychology teacher at my first hs is a mirror twin. They have the same bodies, but they’re literally mirror images of each other. Her sister is more fit, so they’re not the same weight, but they’re mirrored in everything else. Even moles and birth marks.
"A man fathered a child that had his twin's DNA!" Yup, that's the mother's story and she is sticking to it
@@suzip240, Lydia Fairchild is a fascinating case of how chimerism can affect someone's children. Lydia Fairchild and her husband were expecting their third child when they separated. She applied for child support and in the DNA tests, it showed that she wasn't the mother of their children.
A court officer had to attend the birth of the third child and immediately take DNA from Lydia and the baby, again showing that the baby wasn't hers. She was in deep trouble, facing allegations of fraud and the threat of having her children taken away. They ran DNA tests of the children against Lydia's mother and found that Lydia's mother was their grandmother. Then did more DNA tests on Lydia; while her skin and blood DNA didn't match, her cervical DNA did match as their mother.
Haha, a joke about infidelity. So original... (if it's not a joke then you really think scientist are a bunch of morons)
@@cepahreinholt8710 dude. If you don't like the joke, you don't have to give it further attention. You don't have to be rude.
@@cepahreinholt8710 are you doing okay? How is your day? Also, sorry if my earlier comment came off as chastizing, I don't mean to to be mean.
@@fleurgymcheurgy9267 I'm sorry too. There was just too many comments about that in my opinion and I wasn't sure all of them were jokes.
Do you ever talk about twin to twin transfusion syndrome? My girls had that and were born at 28 weeks. This was almost 23 years ago and I am happy to report they are doing wonderful.
Mine as well. 29 weeks.
"less than 200 reported cases have ever been reported"
what a profound statement.
I was wondering if anyone else caught that haha
*insert jaden smith meme*
Just think of all the reported cases that were never reported.
Almost all reported cases -- _some even venture that 100% of reported cases_ -- have, at one time or another, been reported.
i literally was scrolling in the comment section to see if this was already mentioned and now my job is done
11 fetuses in fetu, so like a Russian doll?
I exhaled slightly louder at this comment
more like a rowdy flat party taking place entirely in the bathroom
Turducken
Uncle moola- this is ne- nose exhale. Rarely do we really lol when browsing hahahahhaahahahahaha
No, more like one matryoshka with eleven little ones inside of it when you open it, and they're either shapeless chips of wood or heads with unnaturally tiny bodies.
If my twin and I (identical) had children with another set of identical twins, our children would genetically be cousins and siblings, because their parents would have the exact same DNA.
Brothers, not twins. Parents would have the same DNA, so brothers, but the children wouldn't be identical as each sperm and egg is different 🙂 it would be hard to determine parenthood, but you can tell them apart genetically ☺️
@@aljazslemc9569 You are right, they wouldn't be exactly identical, but there is a chance they could be. Maybe a small chance, but there is still a chance they could inherit the same traits since the parents of both sets have the same exact DNA. You are right though, I was sort of thinking about it like they actually were identical twins.
@@catandchipmunks yeah. It would be interesting seeing that happen, but it's not likely. Then again your situation is already super unique so who knows 😛
I find it creepier that I’d biologically be the mother of my twin’s child and our children would be both cousins and half-siblings.
(All of which is far more likely to happen and something I didn’t think about until I was an adult)
Don't give Arkansas any ideas lol
Thank you. I found this very interesting. My mother was a mirror twin, and her older sister had a child that was chimeric. That led to chimeric to become a microbiologist. So yeah I have been kind of wrapped up in this stuff myself. Thank you again.
That's lovely having I love twins, how are you Vikki?
My twin sister took most of my nutrition, it's apparently rare for the nutrient deprived twin to survive. I was 2lbs with critically underdeveloped kidneys and critical kidney function when I was born and she was 4.5 lbs with a heart that didn't pump blood to her heart very well. We were in the NICU for a month and now I'm 33 and in kidney failure/on dialysis. They said she tried to absorb me in the womb but it was late into the pregnancy and we both survived, but had a lot of complications from it. We also are polar opposites in every way...I have blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin and a very boyish body type, she has red hair, green eyes, olive skin, and an hourglass body type. We also have totally different personalities, I'm outgoing and very assertive, she is shy and a bookworm. But we have the exact same mannerisms and we look like twins due to our bone structure. It's so crazy how twins can be so different yet so incredibly similar. We also have what we call "twin powers." She's my built in best friend and my other half. We might not always get along but I couldn't imagine my life without my twin, I am so lucky to be a twin, it's a bond that can never, ever be broken. I love my twin!❤👭👯♀️✌🏻
Omg, I would love to see pictures of you two - lol That is so fascinating, we know so little about twins outside the ordinary. I was adopted... sometimes I feel like there is a piece of me missing. Could I be a twin, do I have siblings, who do I look like?
I work in surgery and every now and then there is a twin to twin ablation procedure done to lessen the flow from the twin who is receiving much more but I believe both surviving is only bumped up to 60% with that intervention. I'm an identical twin as well and it's so interesting to see all the different types of twins.
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Quite scary, but treatable if caught early enough. I watched a documentary about the guy who invented it 20+ years ago.
Every now and then do you think about punching her for being so devious? (I'm only joking, of course! ;) )
I absorbed my twin 😢
I used to go to school with twins whose mom had uterus didelphys and they were both born from a separate uterus. I remember her doing a presentation in class about it but apparently, it only has a one in 50 million chance of happening which is insane!
Could you imagine if the husband she found also had the condition diphalia- where a man has two dicks? My head would fall off..
at school with my twin brother:
Random person: Are you brother and sister?
Me: Yes, and we're twins.
Person: How are you twins.... If you are different genders?
*X-files (Illumnati) music plays*
#Twinning
That's the stupidest person ever.
Oh yes, and exactly the same type of person would also ask “Sooo, if you guys are twins... then why don’t you have same face?”
Simple, you're fraternal twins
I absorbed my twin brother. Makes a bit of issues especially with hormones and pregnancy.
Another common question I get when I tell people I have a twin brother (I am a girl) is: "WOW! Are you identical?"
No sir, that's not biologically possible.
Then they follow it up with: "Oh, I didn't mean identical, I meant similar"
SAY SIMILAR THEN YOU IDIOT
It's surprisingly common.
In southeast Colorado, a farming community, there's a high incidence of twinning - even if there isn't a familial history. I hope somebody is studying what factors are causing it to occur.
Check that freelance farmhand...
You missed one.
Superfecundation twins. Which are fraternal, but come from 2 instances of intercourse. And can even result from 2 different fathers.
I watched this for this. Went to college with a kid whose mom got pregnant with him two months after she was already pregnant (!)
And yet another rare twin type I've heard of I refer to as XX/XY twinning(maybe there's another term for it). Basically, the egg cell is XXY at fertilization because of nondisjunction during meiosis and instead of becoming 1 male with Klinefelter's Syndrome, the egg separates into 2 eggs, 1 XX and 1 XY, leading to a male/female pair that besides their sex, have identical genetics. How bizarre is that? An X chromosome aneuploidy leading to mostly identical twins(Identical autosomes and thus things like eye color and a lot of other traits are shared, but different pairs of sex chromosomes, thus 1 male and 1 female).
@@caterscarrots3407 wow this is scientifically so fascinating. yesterday i saw a video of a korean twin pair, having down syndrome and they are male and female!
I'm this kind of twin! 2 weeks younger than my twin.
@@foreveravocado4792 this is yet another type: superfetation. My wife cycles, sometimes, every 2 weeks. Our boys are 2 weeks apart. It can also happen with only 1 instance of intercourse.
I'm surprised he didn't mention superfecundation, dizygotic twins with different fathers.
kickballfever Could you briefly explain how that occurs?
Thanks for the big word! I like big words like sequizygotic and superfecundation.
@Placeholder Doe The commenter above gave a great explanation. You can use google to look up actual cases, it's very interesting stuff.
@@PlaceholderDoe123 Just wanted to add that superfecundation, while rare in humans, is common in some animals. Cats for instance, a litter of cats can have all different fathers.
@@Grinalbi Or even of different races. I've read of a case where one twin was white (European) and the other was black (African). This was during wartime, and the fathers were soldiers if I remember correctly.
I remember watching a TV show years ago that featured a young man from China, shunned by local villagers, who had a partially-developed twin embedded in his body, with parts of it sticking out. Sticking out of his back was the head of the twin, not fully formed, but still with hair and other identifiable features such as a mouth. The twin was somehow connected to the nervous system of the young man, so that when the young man moved his mouth, so did the twin. It was a little disturbing to watch. Anyway, the point of the show was that a charity group had intervened and arranged for surgeons to remove the twin, which is what they did.
Oh gosh that's scary to imagine. I'm glad he got some help
I think I remember that several years ago from National Geographic
@@kathyarnold3935Do you know where I can possibly read/watch about this?
@@meiji542 ruclips.net/video/AfFDPC8rFR0/видео.html
@@emmabrandel9870 Thank you so much!! ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`)
There's also quaternary twins, where two identical twin sisters have babies with two identical twin brothers at around the same, causing both babies to have extremely similar DNA, similar to twins