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When adult twins struggle with being seen as individuals versus a unit

My twin brother and I are in our thirties and people still treat us like a unit, asking where the other one is, comparing us, making jokes about twin telepathy, and we've never talked about how it affects our individual identities or whether we collude in it because it's easier than explaining that we're actually quite different people.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ongoing negotiation of individual identity within a twin relationship that others persist in viewing as fundamentally merged or comparable.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sibling identity dynamics?”

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