Odd siblings you have known.

[XaMcQ]

I went to school with a pair of fraternal twins who were simply remarkable, and nobody ever believes me when I describe them. One of them was olive-skinned, with black, curly hair, and brown eyes, while his brother was milky fair with freckles, bright red, straight hair, and blue eyes. Other than that, though, they looked very much alike. Same height and build, and almost exactly the same features.

What odd sibs have you run across?

[Mister Rik]

There was a pair of sisters in my grade in junior high school who most people thought were twins. After all, they looked very much alike, had almost identical figures and hairstyles, and were in the same grade. It turned out they were actually born almost exactly nine months apart. The older sister was slightly too young to be in the next grade up, and the younger sister was just a few days too old to be in the next grade down.

[Shagnasty]

I am 34 yet I have stepsisters that are 20 and 16 years old. The younger stepsister is very dark skinned with deep, black hair and looks basically Indian. The older one is fair skinned with blonde/brown hair and looks like a California model. When I visited a few years ago, my stepmother asked me to take a look at her computer and gave me passwords for all the accounts. I fixed the virus and, about an hour later, I found the blonde, older stepsister staring at an MS Outlook screen. She was going through her mother's emails and found a routine medical form that revealed she was born from a sperm donor rather than her supposed deceased father. Oddly enough, she was thrilled because she could never stand her supposed biological father yet it caused a big sibling riff because the younger one was stuck with her father's legacy.

[Miller]

There was a brother and sister in my middle school who bore a surprisingly strong family resemblence with each other. They could almost have passed for one another, except for the three or four year age difference. They also bore a striking resemblence to their father. If you saw them in the same location, you'd instantly peg the lot of them as family.

The wierd thing was, the sister was adopted, and had absolutely no genetic relationship to the rest of the family. She just happened to look a hell of a lot like her adopted parent and sibling.

[malkavia]

There are a set of twins that I've seen around town and share several mutual friends with. I believe they are identical twins and they look exactly alike, except that one is a very flamboyant, gay goth kid and the other is your quintessential cowboy hat, snakeskin boots, yee-haw shitkicker.

It feels like being part of two alternate realities when they're standing near one another. Weeeird.

[Freudian Slit]

At university, there were twin girls who lived together, dressed the same, took all the same classes, were only seen together...it was a bit creepy.

[AuntiePam]

I was surprised when I met my first husband's siblings -- eight of them. Blondes, redheads, and brunettes; tall and short; thin and heavyset; freckled, olive-skinned, and pale. But they all had the same nose -- cute little noses.

[Shagnasty]

My now wife started going out at 18 as Freshman in college. Most people assumed that we were brother and sister the whole time and she even got confronted about it by her sorority sisters once when we went to a formal dance.

My wife has an English mother and a full-blooded Italian-American father. My family has been in South since Jamestown. Our daughter Sophie, came down with a death sentence on day 5 after her birth. The terminal disease was is genetic and only 50 cases are known worldwide to date. We got the best doctors and the best geneticists from Harvard and I finally got the nerve to ask them if me and mt wife are related. They unequivocally said yes and it is through an unbroken maternal line although no one knows how.

[Baron Greenback]

I only know them in the sense that Popbitch posts their pictures every year when the A-level results come out, but the A-level triplets (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/schools/images/triplets/triplets_new.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/schools/stories/triplets_results.shtml&h=165&w=270&sz=35&hl=en&start=1&sig2=buZPBc89sKTg_xs0gYYh0g&um=1&tbnid=VWzCrlMOrWZqqM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=113&ei=BvnRRuxaqJ7AAerU-aYI&prev=/images%3Fq%3DA-level%2Btriplets%2B%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_en___GB231%26sa%3DG) are remarkable.

[Nava]

One of my classmates was part of a bundle of I'm never sure if it was 10 or 11. Except for one, they had all inherited their father's face (which was ok in the guys but not particularly good for the girls).

Had two classmates who were 10 months apart and got often mistaken for twins; had twin classmates who didn't even look like cousins.

Many people thought that me and my best friend were cousins. Nope, no known blood link. She's a green-eyed Snow White and I'm brown-on-brown-on-brown, but both with mediterranean figures, wavy hair (hers upgrades to curly when short, mine's too fine) and I imagine a lot of common mannerisms.

[jackelope]

I don't know them personally, but here's an interesting story. A man and a woman, both of whom are of mixed race, had a set of twins last year. One twin is black, one is white.

Cute little girls, too. Link with photo. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=377839&in_page_id=1770)

[LouisB]

I attended grade school with a pair of twins who were albino.

[delphica]

I know a pair of cousins who could pass for twins -- it probably helps that their parents are a brother and sister who married a brother and sister (no one married their own sibling, I hope that's clear). I think that's sometimes called "double cousins."

[monstro]

I knew some twins. One was good. The other was evil.

[fisha]

I knew some twins. One was good. The other was evil.

Aren't you a twin? Or am I confused?

[Shera]

I know a pair of cousins who could pass for twins -- it probably helps that their parents are a brother and sister who married a brother and sister (no one married their own sibling, I hope that's clear). I think that's sometimes called "double cousins."

[Slight highjack]My family is like that, we call ourselves double cousins. We won a family look alike contest when we were small. :)[/Slight highjack]

I knew a set of triplets growing up with two girls and boy. One girl was fair haired and blue eyed, the other was olive skined with brown eyes/hair and the boy was a mix between them. No one ever believed they were triplets. They didn't even have similar facial features.

[Hal Briston]

Many, many years ago I became friends with a guy named Lance. Cool guy, we had a lot in common, and wound up hanging out quite a lot.

After maybe six months or so, I was walking through the mall when I saw him coming the other way. "Hey, Lance...", I said, "...what's going on. Didn't know you were heading out here today".

"I'm not Lance", was his reply.

"Yeah, ok, funny. So, wanna grab some food?"

"Seriously man...I don't know you. I'm not Lance, I'm his twin brother".

Turns out he wasn't lying. Lance had a twin brother, and the two pretty much couldn't stand each other. Never even knew the guy existed.

[monstro]

Aren't you a twin? Or am I confused?

Yes.








I'm not the evil twin. Honest.

[Annie-Xmas]

I have two sisters who do not look at all alike. Yet everyone who sees me with either one of them says "You look like your sister." :confused:

[Eleanor of Aquitaine]

At university, there were twin girls who lived together, dressed the same, took all the same classes, were only seen together...it was a bit creepy.I know a set of identical twin sisters in their 60's who have dressed exactly alike every day of their lives. They wear elaborate makeup and jewelry, all exactly the same. They're married (to unrelated men) and live next door to each other. And their names rhyme, of course.

[tdn]

My uncle is 6'1" and 250 lbs, and is a nurse. His twin sister is 5'2", 130 lbs, and sells steel.

The family that bought our house way back in 1977 had a pair of identical twin sons. They were identical in every way, including height, except for one thing: They were born 2 years apart.

I've known 2 sets of identical twin sisters, in which one was straight and the other was lesbian.

I knew 2 sisters who were as different in every way from each other as possible. Different heights, weights, hair color, face, everything. But they had the same birthday (3 years apart).

[Boozahol Squid, P.I.]

I went to school with a pair of fraternal twins who were simply remarkable, and nobody ever believes me when I describe them. One of them was olive-skinned, with black, curly hair, and brown eyes, while his brother was milky fair with freckles, bright red, straight hair, and blue eyes. Other than that, though, they looked very much alike. Same height and build, and almost exactly the same features.

What odd sibs have you run across?

That's creepy. I looked into this thread to describe a pair of twins who correspond precisely to your description. You ain't form North Carolina, are you?

[fessie]

There was a group of quads at my school, two boys and two girls. Each boy/girl pair looked just alike, Stephanie and Steven, James and Janice.

[ZipperJJ]

I went to school with 6 sets of twins in my grade. All of them looked enough alike except one set of sisters. Their facial features were close but one was in the "slow" classes and the other graduated 3rd. The one had short black hair and green eyes and the other long blonde hair and brown eyes. I think at some point they just decided they were not going to be alike anymore.

My brother's mother-in-law is very petite and skinny as a rail. Her 5 siblings are massively huge people, vertically and horizontally. She looks almost...scared in family photos :)

[Rasa]

I know a set of fraternal twins where the male has Downs Syndrome and his twin sister does not.

[mnemosyne]

My dragonboat coach, J, is a twin. His brother, I, also coaches dragon boat teams. They are identical twins, I think, or at the least they look nearly identical. Same height, same scrawny build, same curly hair. I wears glasses, which makes it much easier to tell them apart, and his voice is deeper and he seems to be a bit more serious in general than J. One of my team mates was telling me that they are basically inseparable, even though they are now (I think) in their mid 30s. Apparently they work together (or at least at the same company) and lived together until they got into longterm relationships with girlfriends. I watched them jog up to the docks last week, and they were moving in perfect sync... even their arm movements and the way they lifted their legs as they ran!

It's interesting to watch them.... I can't imagine being that connected to a sibling!

[XaMcQ]

That's creepy. I looked into this thread to describe a pair of twins who correspond precisely to your description. You ain't form North Carolina, are you?

Nope. North Georgia. :)

[Micro Dot]

The twins in our elementary school were nearly identical, but one was a girl and one a boy.
They already looked a lot alike, because they both were pale red heads with freckles and dimples.
But their idiot mother wanted them to appear even more like twins, so she gave them similar haircuts, shoes, jeans and tees. Fortunately, the boy never had to wear pink. I just wonder how old they were before they rebelled.

[tdn]

I used to know a couple of young ladies who were identical. Last time I saw them, one was getting a bit Rubinesque, the other was getting quite trim. The larger one had started a job as an architect, the skinny one had gotten a job as a...






chef.

[hajario]

There were identical twin girls in my Jr. High who were actually triplets because they had a fraternal brother. Their parents made a big effort to keep them as unique (sic) as possible though. The brother went to a different school than the girls and the two of them never had classes together. I only knew one of them because they were on different tracks. They also tended to dress differently enough they I could normally tell them apart.

At university, there were twin girls who lived together, dressed the same, took all the same classes, were only seen together...it was a bit creepy.

There were brothers like that at my university. They lived in the same dorm room, were on the same intermural teams and took all of the same classes. An old girlfriend of mine started dating one of them a few years after she and I split. They had had some sort of rift right before she dated him over the girlfriend of the other one and were no longer speaking. I wonder how much they have diverged over the years.

My ex-wife's sisters are fraternal twins. They don't look that much alike. In fact both of them look more like my ex than each other if that makes any sense. One is a New Ager lesbian who jumps from relationship to relationship, loves hip hop and club music and is a high powered executive. The other is a Born Again Christian housewife who is in a 20+ year marriage with two kids. She listens to Amy Grant and Karen Carpenter. Both of them remind me of my ex in their own way but I'll be damned if I can think of a thing that they have in common. How the first one believes in astrology in light of that evidence is beyond me.

[sturmhauke]

In junior high, there was a pair of identical twin boys who were always chasing after a pair of identical twin girls. It was kind of amusing, because they were all assholes.

[panache45]

I know a pair of 94-year-old female twins. They live in the same house they were born in, neither has ever lived anywhere else. It's a duplex; they live in one half, and nobody has ever lived in the other. Neither of them has ever married or had a job. I don't know where their money comes from, but they're not poor. And they still dress alike.

[AHunter3]

My sister is a sibling and she's odd as all get-out ;)

[LifeOnWry]

My Mom was a triplet, but one baby died in utero, so she and her surviving brother were twins. Mom was fair, freckled, redheaded, with green eyes. Her brother, my uncle, is dark, with olive skin, brown hair and brown eyes. His daughter, six days older than me, is a fair-skinned redhead with green eyes; I am olive-skinned with dark hair and eyes.

My younger sister is fair, blonde and blue-eyed. Her daughter is dark, like me. My daughter is fair, with blonde hair - though she has dark eyes.

We've got this weird criss-crossing sibling resemblence!

[Nava]

One of Middlebro's oldest friends (they were in the same class, and in Spain that means 8 hours a day, for 14 years) can pass for his twin. We have a picture from a summer camp with Middlebro and two other "non-twins" of his... we know which one is which because it's written on the back of the pic.

Same height, build, coloring; very very similar faces. So, having similar faces - the three from summer camp actually had the same model of glasses!

When Middlebro had his pic taken by a speed camera a few years back, we joked he could always claim it had been his friend Santi who was driving. He said it didn't sound like that bad an idea, only "why would Santi be in my company car talking to my wife? He's not married, so I can't claim his wife looks like mine..."

[Freudian Push Up Bra]

My cousins are fraternal twins; only three and a half but the girl is dark haired/eyed/skinned like the women of the family and the boy is light haired/eyed/skinned like his father's family. Same noses and eye shapes and mouths but the boy has mild Cerebral Palsy and the girl is fine. They just received a baby brother who is dark like the sister and has the same face shape as the brother did as an infant.

[Annie-Xmas]

I have a set of identical twin aunts whose children got married! Since their mothers are identical, genetically they were half-brother and half-sister.

They have three normal children and lead a very normal life.

[Velma]

I was just reading an article the other day that said something like, the more opposite the parents' genes are, the more likely the children will be a middle mix of the 2. For multi-racial couples, this means their children are likely to be a mix than look just like one or the other. It explained that we usually see multi-racial children as beautiful, because as a society we favor the middle range when it comes to features. Multi-racial children are less likely to get stuck with dad's big nose or mom's wide face. They will probably have a nice middle range of the 2.

This was interesting to me, because my husband and his brother are opposite in appearance. My husband has dark skin and brown eyes, and black hair and a medium build. He looks stereotypically Italian or Greek. His younger brother looks like the stereotypical Dutch boy, taller, bigger frame, blond hair blue eyes. Husband looks like his dad and brother looks like his mom. His parents are divorced now and not on good terms, and I joke that even their genes did not want anything to do with each other.

Now my husband and I have a boy who is a mix of us (I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and light skin like my husband's mom.) Our son has lighter brown hair, brown eyes and medium skin and his facial features do seem to be a cross of ours. I am pregnant with our second boy so it will be interesting to see if that happens again.

[Shirley Ujest]

Identical Quadruplets have been born. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070816/jepp_quadruplets_070816/20070816?hub=Canada) No fertility drugs were used.




Our pharmacist is a very outgoing, amiable guy. Good looking, too. One day, I was in to pick up some refills and he looked dour. The helper told me it was the usual guy's brother. He looked exactly like him except for the never smiling puss.

He was not a twin.

[Shirley Ujest]

In high school we had a family that had three kids. Older girl, Middle Brother, Younger sister. They had a last name like Smith or Brown ( very common.). I forget.

I never knew they were related because:

Older Girl: Black fro hair, very light skinned black. Halle Berry skin tone and prettiness. Very serious and academic. I sat next to her for one class and she would be the classic brainiac to my " WTF is this class all about" cluelessness.

Middle Brother: Medium dark skin with a fro and more ethnic looking features. Very athletic. ( He might have been a good student too, I don't know. Diffenent class than me.)

Younger Sister: Lily white, wirey blond hair, blue eyes.

Mom is white. Dad is black.

When it clicked with me that they were all related ( at a school event, I saw them all sit together) I was gobsmacked for days at my stupidity of it all. And I remember, in my fresh haze of gobsmackness, how much crap their parents must have put up with because of the color of their skin and no wonder they sent their kids to a private school. Where the color of skin you have isn't an issue. It was ARe you catholic enough :)

[hajario]

Identical Quadruplets have been born. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070816/jepp_quadruplets_070816/20070816?hub=Canada) No fertility drugs were used.

You just reminded me that my step-dad's niece (my step-first cousin?) has identical triplet girls. They must be over ten years old now but I only saw them once when they were a few months old. The parents painted their toe nails different colors to help tell them apart. At the time the Mom could actually tell them apart from their cries but not Dad.

[zagloba]

Identical Quadruplets have been born. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070816/jepp_quadruplets_070816/20070816?hub=Canada) No fertility drugs were used..I'll see your four and raise you one: the Dionne quintuplets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_quintuplets). What is it with Canada and multiple births, anyway?