Despite looking very much alike, no two people are exactly the same; not even identical twins. And I don’t mean the fact that they have different personalities. They often differ in regards to their appearance, too, and sometimes – quite significantly.
Identical twins of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently shared what are the main differences between them and their sibling, showing that the dissimilarities can range from a unique mole to one twin looking like the other “if he hadn't left the Mormon church”, as one netizen put it. Quite a few identical twins—as well as friends and family of twins—shared their stories, so if you’re curious about the differences they described, scroll down to find them on the list below.
#21
A pair of twins I know are fairly discernible. One has a big spot of acne on his nose for years; the other does not. They wear their hair very differently. They also never style their hair, it always looks tangled but ends up differently. One is very sarcastic, the other is wholesome. They play clarinet, bagpipes, trumpet, saxophone and flute. They do everything together. I don’t know how. They work the same jobs at the same shift, are in the same band, same university. The wholesome one has dabbled into Shakespeare and the study of performance more than the sarcastic one who dabbles into circuitry despite being the twin who is not an electrical engineering major. I love those guys and hope to beat them in our school’s rivalry competitions.
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#22
Identical twin here. I have type 1 diabetes and my twin brother doesn’t.
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#23
My aunts are identical twins and my dad and I are the only one's (aside from the two of them) who can tell them apart even in old baby pictures. The older aunt has more hooded eyes. To me it's incredibly obvious, but nobody else seems to see it.
Now that they're in their 60s they dye and wear their hair differently and one recently underwent treatment for breast cancer, so they don't look alike standing right next to each other. Still, they get mistaken in the grocery store and other places like that all the time.
Now that they're in their 60s they dye and wear their hair differently and one recently underwent treatment for breast cancer, so they don't look alike standing right next to each other. Still, they get mistaken in the grocery store and other places like that all the time.
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#24
I’m an identical twin. I was born with brachydactyly type d in one thumb (runs in the family) while my twin was born with both thumbs being normal.
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#25
My identical twin and I have very different mouths, also noses but that’s bc his has been broken a couple times.
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#26
I’m married with kids. My twin is not.
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