30 Hidden Perks Of Having A Twin That You Haven't Thought About Shared By People Online

I have a twin sister. We went to the same school, different classes. Sometimes we would want to repeat a class because we felt it necessary for a recap, and so would just swap with each other as our schedules were different . For example if my sister wanted to repeat a language class, she would check with me on my schedule and I would allow her to use my language lesson if I felt I didn’t need it. Or if I didn’t feel like doing PE that day my sister wouldn’t mind putting on her sport clothes and pretending to be me . It was quite handy, like a get out of jail free card. The best scenario was if one of us was late to show up to a meeting. One time I had to present to be her for one of her society meetings in university as she was out of town and forgot about it. She just briefed me on what to do and it went so well it was hilarious. You can feel like a double agent

(English isnt my native language so there may be mistakes)

I feel like he understands me in a way no one does. I won't go talk to him about stuff as I would to my best friend, yet he always knows when I am upset and how to cheer me up and make me laugh.

We have each others backs no matter what, which really helped us cope with emotional abuse/ neglect from our parents. We always had someone who gets and understands the other on a different level.

Also kind of unrelated but is somehow: (Pre covid) me and my brother love movies, we used to go with friends to the premiere of any movie we thought we would like and be able to avoid spoilers and what not.

One time my twins friends cancelled on him last moment so he went with me and it became a tradition. We love watching stuff together and nerding over movies.

Identical twin here. Some "twin-isms" that I have taken advantage of:

One time I couldn't find my driver's license so I used my identical twin brother's. Who would know better?

In high school, my brother's girlfriend came up to me and started rubbing my back. Lucky for her, she figured it out in time...

My twin and I did the same degree in college, so having a "built-in" study partner/group member was highly advantageous.

Even our family has a hard time telling us apart on the phone, so it's easy to impersonate each other with or without caller ID.

On the flipside, there are some caveats to being a twin:

In high school, my twin and I worked on a project for the same class completely independently of each other. However, the end products were so similar that the teacher made us redo the entire thing, despite absolutely zero collusion.

My twin and I are extremely close and love being twins (it's all we know), but being referred to with each other constantly (e.g. "the twins" or "the last_name twins") has in some ways amplified our want to have unique identities. Wouldn't trade being a twin for anything in the world, though!

I have a twin brother (I’m a girl) and it sucked. We went to the same class for 8 years and shared the same bedroom, shared the same friends and were always compared. I always wished we were one year apart so that we didn’t have to see each other 24 hours a day. When it’s 2 boys or 2 girls it’s different. Those 8 years were hell. He was always mean to me, hit me, wouldn’t let me hang out with “his” friends even though we were all in the same class... We are 22 now. I don’t think there is a single advantage in my case (that doesn’t mean it’s bad). We’re grown up now. The problem was that they made us go to the same class and that made us grow apart. When you’re forced to do something, you want to do that less. They shouldn’t have forced us.

I once got lost at the beach.. Mom took my twin and walked around asking people if they saw someone who looks just like her

I believe my parents are the ones who took advantage of the twins thing.. Always getting discounts and such

Fun Fact:

For some reason people are impressed by identical twins.. They'll usually hand out candies and stuff just cause we looked so cute in our matching outfits

Taught a set of triplets, two of which were identical. One was a jerk, literally stole a kid's money in front of his friends and walked off to buy ice cream with it. When caught out, he tried to claim his parents gave it to him when both his brothers denied getting any ice cream money. The other identical was as sweet as could be, very sensitive and always wanted to help. Nice triplet always got yelled at until someone figured out they got the wrong one. Poor kid always ended up crying over it, while his triplet shrugged and went off to go break rules in whatever area he hadn't been kicked out of.

Yep, this. There was ONE time when I had my brother’s ID so I could pick up a food order he’d paid for with his credit card over the phone, but they didn’t even ask to see it when I got there.

In my high school there was an unusually high number of twins. As in, minimum 3 sets of twins per 90-person class. One class had 6 sets.

A common prank was for twins to "switch" classes for a period or day. Most of the time the teachers caught them (they were very used to it), but there were two brothers that always got away with it. They were just too identical in looks, voice, and mannerisms. One of those guys had a crush on me and to this day, I still don't know which one it was lol.

All the twins got a special group photo in the yearbook every year, too.

Edit: I'll address some common questions here:

This was in poor, rural West Michigan. Very few folks in the whole county could afford IVF, so I don't think that's much of a factor.

By "90-person class," I mean grade. Like 9th, 10th, 11th grade, etc. This was an average grade size for that high school (the biggest in the county). Again, rural Michigan.

To the folks saying I should have given it a shot with one of the twins and taken that 50% chance of getting it right, you're giving a lot of credit to high school SassiestPants.

Twin here. This questions answers vary vastly based on if they're identical or fraternal. My twin brother and I are fraternal so the main advantage was always having something to do with someone. We are very different personally, so it was more akin to a life long best friend than having a copy of myself walking around.

My twin brother is into buying nice fashionable clothes. I'm not. They eventually end up in my wardrobe when he gets new stuff, same size fits all!

We could also pool resources and buy friends/family much bigger gifts at Christmas than a normal present, from the both of us.

We worked in the same restaurant for a long time and would constantly send each other in to do each other's shifts if we needed a day off, basically decided our own timetable to an extent, boss didn't care as long as one of us showed up.

As kids we would have a long pre-arranged list of numbers in our heads if someone asked about twin telepathy, "twin telepathy?! Never heard of it, maybe if I say a number in your ear and you ask my brother what it was". Never really worked...

When we went to different universities (in the same city), it was nearly the first time we had significant different groups of friends. Having a classmate ask me "why did you ignore me on the street the other day?!" became a regular occurrence!

No pranks or anything, just mundane utilitarian things......