# Your resemblance to your same sex parent at your current age. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195 "2014-05-11T16:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/21 "2014-05-12T00:51:18Z")
I’m a bigger build than my mother, fairer skinned, lighter haired and taller than her, but we are very similar and people do remark on the likeness. ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/22 "2014-05-12T02:12:15Z")
I look more like my maternal grandmother than my mom but the resemblance between me and mom is close enough that we’ve been mistaken for sisters. Which means that she either looks _fabulous_ for her age (she does) or I look older than I am 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/23 "2014-05-12T02:26:12Z")
My parents look extremely different; Dad was a big redheaded, freckled ex-college football player, Mom a tiny brown Vietnamese lady, so I in turn look pretty distinct from both. I’m an inch or two shorter and about 125 pounds lighter than my dad was at 40. You can tell I’m his son from photos, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/24 "2014-05-12T02:50:52Z")
Male, 48. Generally, no. I get my height and the length of my limbs (which are unusually long) from my dad, but otherwise I bear a stronger resemblance to my mother and her side of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/25 "2014-05-12T02:55:51Z")
Male 62. I have my mother’s eyes and cheekbones and my father’s jaw. Over the years I’ve kept switching between looking like one or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/26 "2014-05-12T04:26:49Z")
I look like my paternal Grandmother, but my Mom prefers to say I look like her… ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/27 "2014-05-12T13:15:08Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I look slightly like his brother (whose taller and skinnier, but that might be the facial hair. If my mom had brothers, I’d probably look like them. Well according to the OP in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723172) your mom is a skank and you are a bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/28 "2014-05-12T13:26:41Z")
Moving to MPSIMS as the OP requests. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/29 "2014-05-12T13:31:05Z")
No I don’t look at all like either of my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/30 "2014-05-12T14:05:12Z")
Male, 43. I am a clone of my father. The only difference is I am muscular and he was always frail due to the fact that I work out a lot and he had childhood polio. I can see the resemblance in old photos of him or if I catch a reflection of myself by surprise. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/31 "2014-05-12T14:33:12Z")
Male, 53. I don’t resemble my father at all at this age. Though my sisters say I have his snarkiness, attitude, and wit. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/32 "2014-05-12T14:43:28Z")
The “current age” qualifier is a little off, as my doppleganger parent did not live to my age. However, facially I am a double for my same-sex parent - except for the fact that they were obese and I am slender. There is a strain of facial resemblance that travels through that side of the family, we see it in cousins & uncles. My physique came from the other parent’s side of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/33 "2014-05-12T15:55:00Z")
I don’t think so. He was pale Irish/German. Blonde as a child but with dark hair and very blue eyes as an adult. My complexion takes more from the Italian maternal side although I do have light (green) eyes. I’m 5-9. He was 6-3. Facially I don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/34 "2014-05-12T15:55:04Z")
My father and i look nothing alike. I am, however, a spitting image of my mother’s brother. People ask why I don’t like looking at pictures of myself. It’s because _I’m_ not the guy in the picture. It’s my uncle posing in pictures with my family. It’s very disturbing to look in the mirror, and see my uncle looking back at me. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/35 "2014-05-12T16:03:26Z")
I think that by my current age, my father already had a full beard, which I do not (just a moustache). And we’re balding in a different pattern: He had a bald spot on top which grew to cover his whole head, while I’m thinning on top, but mostly receding from the front (except for a lock in the middle of my forehead that’s hanging on tight). He was also a few inches taller than me, and more heavily built. Pictures of him from before he grew his beard, though, look a lot bit like me. I do also have some features that come from my mother’s side, though: I have a mole on the side of my nose that’s shared by a maternal uncle and my maternal grandfather, and nearly everyone in my maternal family has the same toenails. I’m not sure where I got my balding pattern, since most of the men in my mother’s family kept their hair, and as I said it’s a different pattern than my father. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/36 "2014-05-12T17:19:55Z")
I strongly resemble my mother when she was my age. The details aren’t all the same-- she’s got way more freckles, and a couple of inches on me, and I’m chubbier, but we’ve got the same pattern of grey hair-- slight streak near the front of otherwise dark brown waves. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/37 "2014-05-12T17:21:59Z")
I take after my mother’s side of the family, not my father’s. So no. But if you look at pictures of my uncle, his son (my cousin) and I standing side by side, the family resemblance is scary. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/38 "2014-05-12T17:53:54Z")
I not only look like my mother, but we’re both starting to look like clones of my grandmother, her mother. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/39 "2014-05-12T18:40:43Z")
Female, 52. I don’t look anything at all like my mother, except for being very tall. I DO look like her mother and one of my maternal aunts, so there’s no question where I came from. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195/40 "2014-05-12T18:42:29Z")
Female, 45, there’s a slight enough resemblance that people usually know we are mother and daughter when we are together. I do look just like the female version of my father though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195.md?page=3)