IamA Mirror twin, AMA.

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Took me a second..

lol....is he the bottom and you're the top?

...Maybe...

DUDE! that "...maybe..." sounds like one of you is gay and the other is straight because that would be AMAZING!!

I dunno, sometimes we have doubts about my brother.

That is so interesting! At first, I thought the mirror twin thing was fake/not that significant....but this leads to so many more questions about preferences for things...

1.) Vanilla or Chocolate. 2.) Night Owl or Early Bird 3.) Xbox 360 or PS3 4.) Ass or boobs

1. We both love chocolate.
2. I'm an early bird, he's a night owl.
3. He prefers Xbox, I'm a PS3 guy.
4. He's a boob man, I prefer both.

Most people say we have entirely different personalities, he's more reserved, I'm louder and more outgoing, and we dress completely different.

He's a boob man? I thought he was maybe gay. I thought he'd definitely be the ass...or he likes fat guys with boobs.

I doubt he's gay, but you never know!

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Haha, you're right!

How'd you get out of the mirror?! I only ask because my mirror twin has been looking at me shiftily lately and I think he means to kill me... How can I keep him trapped?

I don't know what to tell you. You might be doomed.

Which one of you is evil?

My brother is definitely the evil one, no question about it.

Do you guys ever do opposite things on purpose because you know you're mirror twins? Like you're living up to your identity.

I think he does. Like, any music or movie I like, he automatically hates.

That's so cool how real this is on a psychological level. How would you ever know what you do or do not REALLY like? I think you both should go to a hypnotherapist and do another AMA.

Wow, I never really thought of it like that, like our interests were based on the opposite of the others. That's crazy! Geez, come to think of it, that could actually be happening.

It's definitely happening on some level. Some twins have a complex where they do everything together because their identity is being a twin. Yours is kind of the opposite....It's kind of like when siamese twins who get separated are actually sadder after the separation. Loss of identity. We need a Redditor psychiatrist/psychologist to start weighing in.

Yeah, I often feel lost when me and my bro aren't together. We're the closest two people can get, even though we're exact opposites!

Have you read "The Crooked Letter" by Sean Willams? It features a pair of mirror twins as the protagonist/s

Also, there is a medical condition where your internal organs are mirrored. Have you been checked for it?

I'll check the book out!

I never even knew that was possible, lol! Never been checked for it.

If you are skinny, you should be able to feel your heartbeat through your ribs. Normally it's on the left. If you can't find it would probably take an ultrasound or MRI to show up. As far as I know it has no effect on your life, unless you need surgery for something. Then the surgeon gets a surprise.

We're both pretty skinny, and I can feel my heartbeat on my left. Time to ask him!

Now you have to report back... please?

He said he feels the heartbeat on the left as well.. Oh well.

What happened to your sister's arm?

A mattress fell on her. Pretty stupid way to break an arm, I know.

You can't just say that and not give the full story.

Well, we were moving houses, so this mattress was leaning up against the wall, she tried to move it, broken arm.

Is parting of the hair really genetically determined?! I thought that it was entirely up to you.

I'm pretty sure it's natural, because it is really hard for me to get it to part the other way.

dude, im a mirror twin too!

My sister is right-handed, im left-handed. Shes in school for arts, Im in school for science. Our teeth grew in on opposite sides, she has more freckles on the right side of her face, i have more on my left, her right eye is weaker and my left eye is weaker, stuff like that.

Also she's straight and Im FtM transgender, so the exact opposite thing is pretty drastic in our case. lol

Here's our highschool yearbook "Twin Picture"Imgur [we had a whole spread dedicated to the different set of twins in our graduating class. there was like 7]

and here's one right before prom at our house before we went to someone else's for group pics. Imgur

Wow, that's awesome! Our yearbook did something like that too, a page dedicated to the twins of the school!

Isn't it a little awkward to know, like...exactly what the others package looks like?

Well, no, because I know, I just know, that mine is way bigger.

"Alternate universe" twins is a better term.

We'll start referring to ourselves as that, now.

One of you grow a goatee.

We're working on it!

One of you has to do the goatee, the other has to go with the mutton chops.

I'll go with the goatee.

When you tell people that you're twins, do also tell people that you're opposite twins. Or just say twins.

We usually just say we're twins, but if people comment on how our hair is opposite directions, we explain to them the rest!

So if he posts an AMA tomorrow, are all of his answers going to be the opposite of your answers?

If I ask him this same question, will the answer to his question be different than the answer to this question?

Hmm.. I'll just say yes.

That means you probably missed out on a lot of classic twin pranks like switching classes or girlfriends...

Actually, although it took me a while to get it to look right, I would sometimes get my hair to part the other way! But damn it is hard!

I like that you tried. I've known some twins that don't embrace their uniqueness and never do anything "fun" like that.

Thanks! Wow, they're wasting a great opportunity!

Do you have any powers? Can you sense when your twin is hurt? If so and he hurts say his right hand does it hurt in your left?

I am able to tell what emotion my brother is actually feeling, although i have to be able to see or hear him, though I imagine any two people who are close can do this. But twin telepathy would be the sweetest thing ever!

Has anyone told you that you and your family have awesome chins?

That's the nicest thing I've ever been told.

Nice, I'm a mirror twin too. I'm the lefty and he's the righty. When we got braces our dentist said our xray was like mirror image too. The only way people could tell us apart was the birthmark on the back of my neck.

That's crazy! Do you still look alike?

Yeah but it's getting more distinct as we get older. That and haircuts + weight changes. Here

Wow, you look insanely similar!

What's the stupidest question you've been asked about being a twin?

"Do you, like, have the same birthday?"

I actually know twins that don't...

Born at around midnight?

literally.

Now that's just awesome.

I'm a twin myself, but fraternal. We are still completely opposite. Anything I like, he hates :P No matter what, there's nothing like being a twin :D

Nice! Are you both guys?

Nope! I'm a girl, he's a guy….he's very tall, blonde hair, green eyes. I'm very short, brown hair, brown eyes. Physically the opposite…and we like the complete opposite of things :P Buttt, he's still my brother and no one will 'get me' more than he does!

Wow, that's great! Do you get in as many fights with him as I do with mine?

Which one of you is the Hero? and which is the Villain?

My bro is the obvious villain.

Do you guys have the same friends?

For the most part, although some of my friends my brother absolutely cannot stand! And vice versa.

We want to see a picture!

I'll try to find one. We're 16, so we're a little young, which is why I was hesitant to post a picture, but here it is: http://imgur.com/asRKlun I'm on the far left, he's on the far right.

EDIT: Found one.

My aunts are mirror twins! They are both fucking annoying in their own ways though! One twin is super extreme catholic (was born Jewish) with 5 kids. The other is super liberal lonely NYC psychologist with no kids! I remember my aunt showing me a portrait she drew that was 1/2 her and 1/2 her sister to show how they were mirror twins....they look pretty much identical soooo I didn't see both of them in the portrait!

Do you and your brother have opposite personalities!?

Very, very different personalities. He's really shy and reserved, I'm more loud and outgoing.

Do you enjoy being a twin? Is it annoying to constantly be asked if you're twins and stared at? As an identical twin myself, I can tell you that that NEVER stops happening!

We do get stared at a lot, but it doesn't really bother me. The funniest thing is when little kids see us, they say stuff such as "Mommy, there's two of them!" Always funny!

OH MY GOODNESS. YOU LOOK LIKE GARY GUBLER FROM CRIMINAL MINDS.

You're welcome.

I watch that show all the time, and my mom always says that! Spencer Reed is my favorite character!

wait, if you likes him, he hates you?

We hate each other.

What happened to your sisters arm? Did you beat the person responsible?

Yes, I was sure that the mattress that fell on her would never again see the light of day!

So does one "hang" to the left, the other to the right?

I don't really want to find out.

Do you try to stand on his right side so you can hear each other better? On a related note, do you stand on his left when you don't want to talk to each other?

I do stand on his right, it makes hearing much better. I try to stay to the right of everybody, so if someone's on MY right, it can be pretty awkward if they try to talk to me, since I have difficulty hearing them.

Have you two ever had a form of twin-speak?

Something like that! We have so many inside jokes that we could hold a conversation that no-one else could understand.

Which ones the evil twin?

You are.

Love the old photobomber guy.

Haha I just noticed that!

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Well, I'm straight, but we don't know about my brother.

I'm a mirror twin too.. Didn't know I could get 277 karma for that.. :/

Don't worry, there's no karma for self-posts!

Not to be a dick, but your proof is insufficient. It's a picture of mirror twins, yes, but there's no way for us to know that you are either of them.
Like this, I could post a picture of a dinosaur and say "AMA I'm a literate dinosaur."

Could you provide a picture of your face while holding a paper with something like "Hi Reddit" and the date within view?

Sure, 1 sec.

EDIT: This way way harder than I though it would be! That's me on the left.

http://imgur.com/BsHXymw

My little brothers are identical twins, not mirror image, although one of them has a set of mirror image twins. The mirror image twins are so mirror imaged that one is straight and one is gay....

Do you have siblings? How did they handle all of the attention you would receive? I can remember being a little guy and people would be all over my brothers commenting on how they look so much alike, they are so cute, blah blah blah...I would be like, Uh, hey, I'm here too!

I have a 13 year old sister, and she looks so much like us, most people think we're triplets!

Are the asymmetries of your bodies also mirror? I have heard that mirror twin can have opposite alignment of organs (one twins heart is on the right, one is on the left, same for liver etc..)

Sadly, we're both normal in that aspect : /

Your little sister is plotting something evil...

She always is!

Do your fingerprints look similar (or different)?

Very similar.

It's all fine with the information you've given.. But you missed out on the most important part. Who is the evil one?

Look at the picture. See the girl at the bottom? She's the evil one.

I can't tell if it's just the picture, but it looks you have lighter hair and he has darker hair. Is this part of the mirror-ism or...?

I think it's just because of the lighting; we have very similar colored hair.

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Did you think that was funny or something? Because it wasn't.

What did they say?

How many times have you guys fucked each other?

How many times have you switched and fucked each other's girlfriends?

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