I’m thinking about going to the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, next year with my twin, but I’ve never been before. If anyone has attended, I’d love to hear what it’s like! I live about six hours away, so I’m planning to drive instead of fly—it seems like it’ll be easier for getting around once I’m there rather than Ubering. I’m curious about how much I should budget for the whole weekend, including hotel costs and any recommendations for where to stay. Also, which events are included in the registration, and are there any extra fees? I’m especially interested in the 5K run on the itinerary—does that come with the package, or is it a separate cost? How’s the food situation at the festival? Are there food events included, or do I need to find places to eat each day? If I do need to eat out, what restaurants or spots do people recommend in the area? Any tips or advice would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

i’m a girl, and my twin is a guy, and were both young, and i have this constant feeling of being jealous of him. he’s popular, has good grades, lots of friends, athletic, smart, been in relationships and basically every good quality a person could have. i have none of those and i cant help but be extremely jealous of him. nobody ever talks about how much it hurts being the more disappointing twin, so i just wanna know if theres anyone else that relates 🙁

Hi everyone, I've been really curious about the fascinating connection between twins and how it shapes life's relationships. My hubby and I have been discussing the unique ways that having such a profound bond from birth might influence how twins connect with others and share love - whether it's with spouses, friends, or extended family.

Would you be willing to share your thoughts on how being a twin has affected your other close relationships and ability to form deep, intimate connections?

I'm particularly interested in both the challenges and the beautiful moments that have emerged from this unique dynamic, especially in how it shapes your capacity for sharing love and creating meaningful bonds with others - perhaps even together in a shared relationship.

Really looking forward to learning from you all.

This might be the dumbest question ever but on the off chance its not im gonna ask. Twins run in my family on my moms side. My grandpa was a twin. It skipped my mom and uncle. My uncle’s daughter is now having twins. Is it any less likely that i could have twins since she is? My husband’s father is also twin

My (25f) boyfriend (30m) is a twin and he and his brother look very similar. We are all going to my family’s for thanksgiving and I’d like to prank some of my relatives (they don’t know his twin is coming). My idea is to make sure they are always in different rooms (or one outside, one inside) and then kind of confuse people when they walk from one room to the next like “huh didn’t I just see you in that other room?”

Has anyone done any pranks like this before and have more suggestions or ideas? I feel like there’s gotta be some more creative ways to prank them! Anyways, thank you!

A little more context, my mom and brother know so they can help with any pranks. There will be about 12 other people coming who have at least heard my boyfriend has a twin but haven’t met him and probably forgot he exists. None of them know he is in-town or coming so everyone will be unsuspecting.

Maybe an odd one. But have people ever exploited the fact that you are so close? As in, has anyone ever tried to hurt your twin to get to you? Bullies, siblings, teachers etc? And would a threat toward your twin be more serious to you than one toward yourself?

Maybe a little overprotective.

My twin brother and I are close, but recently less so. We are identical twins. We are both in our 20s. Recently-ish I got a girlfriend for the first time in my life. I had very little dating experience before that. The story of my twin brother is the same, except he has not got a girlfriend now (and has not been in a relationship before).

This has completely destroyed my brother's confidence and he has become very depressed.

I feel guilty and frustrated about this: I don't want him to be unhappy, and I feel it is unfair that my relationship and experiences with my girlfriend should always be mixed with a pang of guilt over how I am making him feel.

My brother is struggling to see a way out of his current situation. I don't think he feels that he is capable of dating, himself. And the current situation has gone on for kind of a long time now.

I think increasingly this unspoken jealousy, resentment and guilt (on both sides) is one of the dominant feelings in our relationship, which I feel incredibly sad about. We are in a better place now, than we were.

Instead of feeling that we can build each other up and help and motivate each other to achieve things, increasingly I feel embarrassed and concerned anytime anything good happens to me, or I experience something interesting, because I worry that my brother will be jealous, and it will confirm to his mind that I am out living some interesting life, which is forever out of reach for him.

It makes me feel sad about our relationship, and uncomfortable in my relationship with my girlfriend and I feel sorry for him, that he is in such a difficult space now. I have been in depressive periods myself and I know how hopeless everything can feel. I want to help him, but I don't know how.

I'm interested in hearing about the experiences of others in this sub.

This has happened so many times with my sister. We be thinking the same thing but we don’t realize until one of us says something about it and we realize we were thinking the same thing. We like to call it Invisible Telepathy.

Like the title says, is there a term for twins that are conceived without medical assistance vs twins that resulted from medical assistance such as IVF. Curious because my parents needed help getting pregnant. However on my wife’s side of the family there are a few sets of twins who are “natural”; none are identical.

Thanks!

My twin and I have done absolutely everything together for our whole lives, minus the times when we were in different classes. We liked all the same things, had the same hobbies, phases, obsessions, we did the same sports, and got the same grades in school. We even used to have more or less the same personality until she became much more social a few years ago.

But anyway, this is the first year that we've been apart; I went to boarding school. I joined a new sports team--my first time being on a team without her. Walking into that locker room was really hard because it was at that moment that I realized I'd never been completely alone in my life (the team started before my boarding school began) Even though my twin and I haven't had the best relationship, I realized I was dependent on her. I felt so alone without her.

I've gotten used to being alone now, but sometimes I just get hit with a wave of sadness, remembering the times when I could just walk into her room and talk to her about random stuff.

However, she never asnwers my calls or texts anymore. I always (I did it more in the beginning of the year and stopped doing it as much becuase of her infrequent replies.) text her updates about my life and sometimes try to call her but she rarely answers.

Here is some background of our relationship before I went to boarding school: I never really had any friends ever since the beginning of middle school, and until around eighth grade, my twin didn't either. However, she changed after we went to a two week camp and were put in different groups--she's much more social now. And I know its annoying to her but I always tagged along with her. Her friends only invited me becuase of her and I would always follow her around at school becuase I had no other friends. Annoying, I know. But ever since eigth grade she began to despise me and every little thing I did she would get mad at me for. She even complained to our parents about me followng her around. Which, don't get me wrong, I get it, but I just didn't want to be alone. Anyway, I switched schools becuase I wanted some friends of my own (i still don't have any friends :() but after I made the decision, I knew that even if I didn't make any friends it would be good for me to get away from my twin becuase I had grown too dependent on her. But overall, that's why she doesn't like me.

We were never really that close, but I feel we are growing even more distant from each other. I wish I had a better relationship with her:(

Anyway I just wanted to vent. Thanks for listening.

A friend of mine (also a twin) told me she had sat at dinner with someone who had been convinced that twins could feel eachothers pain. And not like empathy. Like if I hit twin 1, twin 2 will, on some level, be able to feel it. And I'm sure everyone on this sub who has ever heard the phrase 'it didn't hurt that bad, please don't tell mum.' knows that this isn't true. But I'm curious if anyone else has ever had anyone been convinced, or try and convince them, that you and your twin could reach eachothers mind or could feel eachothers pain. Or really anything weird and mysterious that just isn't true. Like I know what my sister is thinking because we have spent so much time together for the whole of our lives, not because we have magic powers.

As this is a twin sub, I’m posting because my identical twin sister is scheduled for an induction tomorrow and I’m having a hard time with it knowing what could possibly happen, and I hope to all that’s in the universe that everything goes well.

I’m sad to say that I don’t think I would feel like this for my non-twin sisters, and it’s really because she’s my best friend.

So yeah, I don’t know what else to say other than sometimes being a twin comes with things you just don’t expect or anticipate when it comes to thinking about what would happen if you lost that person.

Im curious other twins experiences with separation anxiety if you have experienced it. My twin and I were extremely close and did experience some very intense separation anxiety at times. We were able to do things by ourselves at times but of course would always choose being together if we had the option. It's something only twins can understand but I can only describe as a feeling of emptiness, like Im only half of a brain without. I feel I will only ever live a life of panic and numbness without my twin.

Face recognition isn’t smart enough and I can unlock my identical twin sister’s phone and vice versa. Is this the case for other twins too? Curious!

I am aware that, unfortunately, not all twins get along. I know this from close, personal relationships.

However I have often thought (fantasised if I’m honest) what it would be like to have a twin.

My parents often joke that if there were two of me they’d never have survived, Understandable as I was a little shit until about 14/15, and especially in my childhood.

So for those of you that do get along with your genetic copy; how cool is it to know there’s another walking, talking, sentient version of yourself making their way through the esoteric journey that is life?

I saw a twin telepathy thing in FB and wanted to share a cool twinning thing me and my twin bro did.

This was probably over 15 years ago. Our godson was probably turning 5.

My brother and I mailed him the same card from two different parts of the country, without discussing it.

My aunt was weirded out but loved it!

Share some of yours! I’d love to hear them…

I have many others too but that’s probably my favorite.

I always thought that twins tended to differentiate themselves from each other to cultivate their own personalities. E.g. if one was the academic one, the other became the sporty one, or if one was the creative one, the other became the scientific one.

But my neighbor has two teenage girls that I have got to know very well, and I swear they have the same personality. They both are the classic A-type students. They both do the same sports. They are both extroverts. They both have the same sense of humor. And they are best friends that do everything together. How common is this?

I knew she was trying with her hubby so I fully expected it and hell, my will already made provision for her unborn kid in case I die, but this just feels so weird. Is it just me? She married and is having a baby (or more..?) and there's me, still dating (in a happy relationship) child free (we have our cats and are happy with that).

I don't know why writing it down helps me figure out my thoughts. I'm not envious, I don't want her lifestyle and I respect her choices. I guess it's more that our lives were once so close and we just veered into our own paths.

I am happy for her, really I am, I don't know if what I am feeling, this feeling of oddness and being out of sorts, is normal or whether it's just life and childhood people we knew marrying, kids etc.

Also my parents being happy she's following the expected script of marriage then kids. I guess I also sort of feel I'm a disappointment to them because I don't have, nor do I want, that married with kids lifestyle.

Anyone else feel like this?

Edit: thanks for all the support you guys! I'm slowly getting my head around to the idea of being an Aunt (like a blood relative, not like Auntie to my friend's kid) and basically getting all the fun side of parenting with the added benefit of being able to give them back at the end of the day!

Hey all. So I’m (29M) am thinking about moving out of my twin brother’s house in the next month or so. It will be for me to live alone for the first time as I either have lived with him or a girlfriend all my life. I am struggling with the idea of not seeing my twin each day, but know it will be good for my personal growth to live alone for a bit. Has anyone else struggled with this?

Don't get me wrong, I love my twin sibling it's just the fact that people treat us like the same person all the time. For me this has gotten to such a high point to were people just call us "the twins". Probably the worst thing though happened today. So baisically i'm in a school play, and guess what play it is.................. a dr seuss musical. I auditioned for a completley diffrent role and this one role was not even on the roles list. And guess what role I found out I got today.................... THING 2 and my twin sibling got thing 1. I can say I did not specifically say I did not want the role, but it was not on the roles list, so how was I supposed to know? Something like this happened last year when I was in theatre last year. It was a mean girls play and me and my twin got the role of lions THE ONLY 2 I cant say I did not enjoy that role though. Another bad thing is people can't seem to tell us apart even my close friends.

This is my first Halloween without my twin since she’s at university while I do online college at home so I’m kinda sad but I’m still gonna have fun. I’m planning to eat pizza, watch Nightmare Before Christmas and Over The Garden Wall, handing out candy, and playing the new Sonic game.

Hi twins! I'm a mom to identical twin boys who will be 2 this winter. Not only do my boys share a birthday (obviously) but they also were born the same day as their cousin (17 hours apart) and their Grandfather. On top of that, we have 3 other family members who have their birthday that week.

I know growing up as twins, birthdays can be a sensitive day. I feel my boys have it extra tough and worry about them not feeling celebrated as their own person and their birthday feeling more like a 2nd Christmas that isn't about them.

I had a thought to make them feel special and would love some opinions from you guys if you think they will like this as a tradition growing up. They were NICU babies and were in there for 3 & 4 weeks (Twin A came home first). I think it would be fun for my husband and I to do one-on-one days with them on the anniversary of the day they came home. We would do a full friend/family bday on their actual birthday but then they could pick a special activity the day they came home and their brother would stay home with a sitter or something. My only concern is that the dates are 9 days apart and that might feel like a long time for Twin B to wait for his day. But at the same time, most siblings have different birthdays so maybe he will understand?

TIA!

Hey all, I am a 27y.o. twin, a couple of years ago I stumbled on a video explaining the different types of twins and how they develop, and was dumbfounded when I learned about Seisquizygotic twins. I have lived my whole life explaining to people that my IDENTICAL twin is actually my identical twin and not just fraternal or a regular ol run of the mill sibling. We do (especially now as adults) not look identical. My twin (Female) has, from birth, always been heavier than I have been, has a completely different hair texture than I do, different skin tone, different nose and chin, different eye colour, she lacks dimples where as I have two sets on my cheek. We grew up with 4 sets of twins in our schools and we're very close friends with nearly all of them. Their parents would NOT accept we were identical twins despite my parents saying "believe me, I was there... One placenta.."

If in we are Seisquizygotic twins, it would explain how we are incredibly different. (Essentially one egg from dear ol Mom and two sperm from dearest Dad!) Medical proof and documentation of Seisquizygotic twins is extremely rare, would it be worth talking to a medical professional about this?

Edit: both my twin and I are female

I mentioned to somebody the other day that I used to suffer with depression, but since I haven’t spoken to my brother that’s my identical twin I haven’t suffered with this condition. We stopped talking properly about 14 years ago after the death of my mother. I still love him and miss the rare good times, but I love myself and so he’s no longer in my life .

My fiance twin and him drive to work together, business partners, own a home together, have all there finances in theee business together, have the same friends, travel together.

Us getting engaged I think was hard on the other twin- he is now traveling non stop to Europe and I notice my fiance is moody and sad.

It passed and now I am noticing he is apprehensive to buy anything with me- a home, share his finances, anything that shows he is partnered to me.

Is there a possibility he is struggling detaching from his twin? I'm concerned they have no Individual personality and it is essentially a divorce for them.

FYI I love his twin we have great relationship. Since engagement lots of turbulence in regards to moving forward and making moves together

Is this normal or a red flag for myself?