I picked “like my father in both appearance and personality”. When I was a kid, everyone would remark how much I looked like my mother (and her relatives). But, now that I’m an adult (particularly once I passed 40), when I look in the mirror, I see my father.
As far as personality, I think I have aspects of both of my parents, but shade more towards my father, esp. in my sense of humor.
My paternal great-grandfather fought in WW1 and a photo that we have of him from his service looks like me cosplaying in a WW1 uniform. My brother, however, has been told repeatedly that he looks like our maternal grandfather.
I’m adopted, so…
If I go by the little 3"x5" notecard that described my bioparents, I trend more to my biomother - 5’9", green eyes, blonde hair. The notecard said my biofather was 6’3", brown hair/brown eyes. I’m 5’9", hazel eyes, blonde/red hair.
Personality wise, I take after my adopted mom WAY too much. My dad was very gregarious, very laid back, took things as they came. So not me. Like my mom, I’m stubborn, prefer to be left alone, have a temper and tend to the passive-aggressive.
It’s funny, more than once I’ve been told I look like my mom. There is no physical similarity at all (of course). I tower over her by 8". She’s tiny, I’m not. However, when I see pictures of us, our mouths are the same.
And, with increasing frequency, I open my mouth and her voice comes out. Scary.
I look like my uncle. My personality is sort of like my mother, I guess. She and my father are both more outgoing than I am, and I wish I could be the same, but oh well.
My son talks exactly like I do, and tells the same kind of jokes. My daughter doesn’t. (Both are adopted.)
Regards,
Shodan
I look like a combination of my mother and father: my father’s eyes and height, my mother’s nose, chin and hands. My personality is a blend of both of them also, but my handwriting is almost identical to Mom’s.
I’ve had total strangers approach me and ask if I was Mrs. Calatin’s son, which is kinda awkward because of the whole “being a guy” thing.
Back when I was growing up, I remember doing a project where we took photos of ourselves and compared them with photos of our parents at that age, and if you would’ve put a wig on my mom, you would’ve said we were virtually twins.
My mother is very attractive, so I guess I don’t mind. But, still, it’s a little strange.
And I definitely have my father’s personality and his twisted sense of humor.
My wife and other women say I look a great deal like my father, which is fine because he was apparently hella sexy back in the day. It’s odd, though. My brother looked much more like him when we were kids, and I looked like my mother. Now it’s the opposite.
I’m the spitting image of my father. If you compared a picture of him 30 years ago to a picture of me today, you’d first tell us apart by the clothing fashions. My hairline is even receding at exactly the same rate and we’re easily within 20 lbs of the same weight.
(For what it’s worth, my brother is the spitting image of my mother, just as a male. In school, lots of kids refused to believe that we were related. You need my youngest brother to stand between us before you see a family resemblance.)
Personality-wise, I am about 50% from each parent. I would like to be more like my mother, but I really do have about half the traits of each.
When I was younger I strongly resembled my mother. I personally didn’t see it, but she died in 1969 and I was stopped by strangers in the 1980s who knew I was her son just by the resemblance, so clearly it was there. My grandparents started a family young and my oldest uncle was 16 years younger than my grandfather so when he was in his 60s, they could easily pass for brothers. Now that I’m in my 50s, I look a LOT like they did.
There’s one wall in my stairway going upstairs that is covered with family pictures. Some go back to the 1950’s. Many people have looked at them and said I have a striking resemblance to my mom. Other people have said that personality wise and sense of humor wise, my dad and I were like two peas in a pod. My mom has even said that. I’m adopted. Go figure.
I fall under “look like my mother, think like my father”, with a caveat. While on first sight people say I look “just like my mother”, that’s mostly a matter of coloring: both seamstresses and doctors say that any further physical similarities fall under “members of the same sex and species”. I understand my voice and Mom’s are very similar.
After many, many years of hearing “ooooh you are just like your mother”, the first time someone said “you may look like your mother or not, I don’t know her so I can’t tell, but damn you do think like your father” I didn’t kiss him because he was my teacher and there were two desks between us.
For as long as I can remember, the consensus in my family was that I looked like my father. OK but frankly, I didn’t see it. Now that I’m 40, i.e. the age he had when I was in my early teens, it’s getting increasingly obvious to me. Apart from my slightly lighter hair colour, our facial features are strikingly similar.
As far as personality is concerned, I also have some things in common with him but I tend to think that I’m more like my youngest uncle.
Facially I don’t resemble either parent very much. My personality certainly does, though- I’m a mix of my Father’s good aspects and my Mother’s bad ones. Fortunately for me (and everybody who knows me) the Dad part of me is much stronger than the Mother.
I really am a mish-mash of parental attributes. I’m tall like my Dad, and have his general head/face shape, but I have Mom’s build and several of Mom’s facial features, as well as her hair and eye color. My voice sounds like Dad’s, and my personality is a fair split; I’m analytical, ingenious like Dad, but I’m social like Mom.
Historically, people split 50/50 on whether I resemble my mother or father more. Personality wise, I see attributes of both, good and bad.
So I strongly resemble both, but favor neither. Interestingly, my brother is much the same- we got a different set of facial features from each parent, and people still think we look the same. I suspect that in reality, we don’t particularly similar, but we do act similarly, so that people think we look the same, when it’s actually behavior.
I look so much like my mother that, when looking at old photos, sometimes I have to stop for a split-second to register whether it’s her or me in the picture. But in my temperament, my intellect, my areas of interest, and my basic take on life, I’m so much my father’s daughter that it’s become a joke in our family.
I think that like most people, I have a mix of traits from both my parents.
My son physically resembles me, but personality-wise is very much his mother. My daughter resembles her mother, but takes after me in personality.
They both got my sense of humor, poor things.
Through the face, I look *exactly *like the direct offspring of my maternal great-grandparents – my GGM’s face, and my GGP’s eyes. There’s no other family influence there, it’s very odd.
I’m the spitting image of my maternal great-grandmother, too (except she was 4’8", and I’m 5’9"). I have a cousin in France who also looks like her; we could be taken for twins. But that’s it. No one else in the family looks anything at all like her/us.
I am equal parts mom and dad. I go to each side’s family reunion and everyone always tells me how much I look like a “[insert last name here].”
Personality-wise, I see similarities to both of them as well. And they both kinda drive me nuts, and the reason for that is probably because see myself in them. My mom drives me 10x more nuts, so I’m probably more like her.