I have a younger brother who is at least 8 inches taller than me. Although I am obviously more mature than he, due to his height, people often have trouble guessing who is older.
While I have grown to expect the occasional "OMG are you guys twins?!" reaction, the worst we have ever received was:
"Are you guys, like, identical twins?"
Yes, yes we are. We are from the same embryo that divided in a post-blastocyst phase and SOMEHOW one fetus was XX and the other was XY. We are the first set of bigender identical twins ever known to mankind. Can you believe how lucky you are to meet us?!
NOT.
Think about it. How could a boy and a girl possibly be identical twins?! There are many, many, MANY features that distinguish us. Facial hair. Adam's apple. Need I keep going...?
I am just a little worried that people who say such things are representing our population. And who knows? If people like this keep promoting scientifically-impossible things, soon everyone will think that Twinkies never go bad or that redheads are going extinct. (Thank goodness, we are not).
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