Not BS at all. My grandmother and her cousin are totally Patty and Cathy Lane, except 25 years apart. The sister and brother who are their related parents are 17 years apart, and don’t even look very much alike. I’d post pictures, but I don’t have permission from “Patty” in Slovakia to post her pic.
I forgot to mention that “Patty” has a daughter who looks just like one of my cousins on my mother’s side.
Also, my great-grandfather was 6’2, even though he was born in Slovakia sometime in the 1880s. If he’d been born in the US after about 1980, with the advantage of the nutrition and healthcare of our time, I wonder how tall he would have been? Maybe this is where my son gets his height.
I have a passel of cousins in California but look nothing at all like any of them. That’s because they’re all on my father’s side, while I generally take after my maternal grandfather, and my mother was an only child, so no cousins on her side.
I have a cousin who is estranged from her mother and grew up not really knowing this side of her family. (We became close as adults.)
A few summers ago I was on put hometown and we went swimming. I glanced at her feet and could barely contain my amazement. “You have my mom’s feet!”
Honestly I cannot remember the last time I saw my mother without socks at least I’ socks and shoes on, but my cousin’s feet are identical to mom’s, including the right
My first kid looks a lot like me, even more like my mother, but she’s the spitting image of my cousin. To the point where there are childhood photos of my cousin that I would absolutely swear are of my kid, if I didn’t know better.
We also have a photo of a relative from the 1830s who’s an awful lot like my brother at that age.
One of my brothers looks very much like one of our first cousins. I mean, you’d swear that they were brothers. There is about a four-inch difference in height, but otherwise they really, really look alike, and they’re pretty close in age, too, and the years have affected them in pretty much the same way.
That’s on my mother’s side (the cousin is her brother’s son).
On my father’s side of the family, I’m told that my first cousin (my father’s sister’s son) looks a lot like me, allowing for age (I’m 21 years older than him).
No one would mistake them anymore, but for about 2 summers, Lots of people thought they were seeing quadruplets. I have identical twin cousins who are a few years older than me, blue eyed blondes. I have an older sister and a younger brother who are blue eyed blondes. For a short time they were all the exact same height, hair color, eye color, and facial shape that they looked more closely related than cousins. So everywhere we went together those 2 summers we would get lots of extra looks and people asking if they were quads.
Eventually my brother outgrew all of us and his face changed enough in puberty that he no longer resembled any of the rest.
My daughter and her first cousin who’s a boy look absolutely identical. They are 6 months apart and since birth have been mistaken for twins. They act alike, look alike, have the same temperment and even share the same medical conditions. My daughter once said we just feel the same things. Its really crazy and they are best friends. I dont know if their is a name for this or is anyone could point me in a direction for research. Does anyone relate?
I am the middle child of three siblings. Older brother and younger sister. Sister has three sons. My three nephews easily pass as either my kids or my brother’s kids, than they do their own parents kids.
When we are out together at a restaurant or elsewhere, they almost always are assumed to be mine or my brothers kids by strangers.
I’ve had experiences with cousins looking similar. They share genetics. It’s always possible.
Also their being best friends. Are they housed or daycared together?
In my experience the being ‘best’ friends will end when they hit puberty.
They’re cousins. They’ll be friendly but not besties anymore.
I knew that one of my first cousins and I look alike–we have features that have recurred in our family for generations, including high foreheads, oval faces and slight underbites–but I didn’t realize how much alike until watching a video of a family wedding.
For a few moments, I was quite puzzled, thinking “There I am, but why don’t I recognize that dress that I’m wearing?” And then I realized, it wasn’t me, it was my cousin. She’s 14 years younger than me, and always had hair shorter than mine until she grew it for that wedding. So we look so much alike that for a few moments I couldn’t tell us apart.
And about cousins being besties: my son and 2 of his cousins live 10 hours apart and see each other 2-3 weeks a year. When they get together they’re besties, from the time they were tiny until now when they’re in their early 20s.
When my kids were young they looked very much like each other. They were only 1 year apart in age and growing at different rates so looked like twins at times. And they happen to be biological first cousins.
I look much more like my mom’s sister than I do my mom. I don’t look anything like my cousins but they all comment on how I look more like their mom than they do. My older niece also looks a lot like I did at her age.