Emma Scott: Life As a Twin

 What is it like to be a twin? Are you identical? These are two questions that I have gotten my whole life, along with a plethora of others. I will start off by saying that I have a twin brother, so to answer the second question no we can not be identical. You would not believe how many people hear me say I have a twin brother and still ask me if we are identical. I can confidently say we are definitely not identical and I would argue we do not look alike now that we have gotten older. When I look at pictures from when we were little we looked a lot alike, but as we have grown up we differ in appearances. My brother is taller than me, has super thick dark brown hair, and is much thinner. While we have these differences there are still some similarities and those are we both have hazel eyes, we have almost the same size foot, and we share many of the same hobbies. 

What is it like to be a twin? I would honestly say that it is the best thing ever and I would not change it for the world, even with some of the difficulties it sometimes comes with. Some somethings that I love about being a twin is that I got to grow up with a best friend, I always had someone on my side, I was never alone, there is someone that is going through life at the exact same time so they understand your struggles and what you are going through, and so many other benefits. While being a twin is amazing there are some times that can prove to be difficult. While my parents tried really hard not to compare us it inevitably sometimes felt that we were being compared. My brother felt he was always compared to how I did in school. Growing up my brother found school to be much harder than I did, and my parents understood this but from him telling me, it was difficult to not be doing as well and be compared to me. He felt that my parents sometimes could not understand why he could not do as well in school as I did. On the flip side, I felt that I was compared in high school to my brother and the stellar son he was. My brother hardly ever had a temper, unlike me. Whenever I would get into an argument with my parents it was always why could I not be more like my brother and just say yes ma'am or no sir. I felt that I was always the problem and my brother never got in trouble for anything. I know now that I am a bit older that my parents did the best that they could have done, and if I was in their position I would have probably handled the situations very similar. They never purposefully tried to compare the two of us to one another, but I also understand that it is hard to accomplish that when you have two kids doing the exact same thing and the exact same time. 


Something else that I get asked a lot when people discover that I am a twin is if we are telepathic. My brother and I are not telepathic, however sometimes I feel that we have a special bond that other siblings do not have. I typically can sense when something is wrong with my brother or if he is not being himself. My parents raised us to be best friends with each other. We had combined birthday parties because we always were able to agree with one another on a theme, we played on the same team for sports, and were always in each other's classes by choice. A lot of my friends tell me that they do not have a strong relationship with their siblings, and I personally can not relate to that at all. My brother is still today my best friend and I do not think anything could ever change that. We decided to go to the same college and we get weekly lunches together as well as check in periodically with each other throughout the week. When we are home for breaks we hang out all the time when I am not working we run errands together, have movie nights, and so much more. The bond that I have with my brother is something special to me and I believe that it is because we are twins.


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