Hahahahahhahahaha

I mean, you would know it if you were a chimera, because you wouldnt have a living brother. I wonder now though whether there are cases of triplets who got out as twins and one got absorbed by one of the twins or both.

@@xxMpEGxx No not necessarily. He mentioned that some live twins are chimeras of each other (both twins have full cells from their twin with their twin's DNA)

@@xxMpEGxx They can be chimeras by absorbing their lower half only. One woman took a DNA test for government assistance and her kids DNA matched with her twin and they were taken away for kidnapping even tho she physically gave birth to them.

That doesn't even make genetic sense.

sarahj 😂🤣

APTLY PUT, LOL!!! 😂😂

Oooh, what a give-away!

Was it a malaproprism (misused word) or was he making a joke? Either way its pretty funny lol.

sounds like he's self-aware 😂😂

One of my friends sister has two uteruses too. She has had children from both uteruses. 3 from one and 2 from the other. I was wondering if they were going to mention this condition too. Now I know there are at least two women with this. Strange though that it is all hush hush in the family, I think it is amazing.

I've read about this happening.

​@@heatherburrillwell that's plentiful

That is so interesting! I think they are only considered twins by the fact that they are born at the same time. They are more like fraternal. Other than that, they are just regular siblings. Different egg and sperm, and most likely different conception times.

Rebecca Roberts on UKposts had 'super twins' - I wasn't quite catching the full name - the rare occurrence where a woman gets pregnant while already pregnant, so they were 3 weeks different in gestational age. They were the 14th recorded case of it happening. I was expecting this to get mentioned too! Rebecca's twins were born on the same day at 33 weeks 2 days, and 30 weeks 2 days from memory, oldest first thankfully, to save confusion about who was really the eldest!!

But they'd be a match showing he's an uncle right?

Had to do with a divorce and establishing custody. Her kids went into foster care. Her stbx and she must have had a last fling, because she got pregnant again, and the rest is history.

You're probably thinking of Lydia Fairchild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild

@@lyrebird9749 yes, she's the one I was thinking of.

​@mwenyamutale1513 hypothetically there is a way for the kid to not appear as the fathers heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin. i.e. Susan and Bill have a 3way with John, and susan becomes pregnant with Bill and John's twins (Sam and Elliot) the baby's do whatever happens with a chimera, in the mothers womb, swapping cells that will become gonads. After Sam and Elliot are born and reach adult hood, they get married and have kids. because Sam has Elliots DNA, and Elliot has Sam's DNA, Sam's wife becomes pregnant with Elliot's Genetic kids and Elliots wife becoms pregnant with Sams genetic kids. if the Susan is also a heteropaternal superfecundation chimera twin (ideally one with only one of her twin's ovaries), then its possible that a dna test might not even register Sam's kids as being closely related. keep in mind, heteropaternal superfecundation is incredibly rare, at about 0.25% of twin births. Chimeras are also rare, so the chances of this happening are rare.

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@@DelennD 5:35 am**

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@@ariv1813 go to sleep.

Me now at 12:15 am

Did the doctors not do the routine tests? Like sonography and such. This is interesting

This happened to my aunt and uncle. He was so small that he was hidden behind her though out the whole pregnancy and didn't show up on any of the ultrasounds.

Sometimes one baby is blocking another on the screen, so you would only be able to see one unless the other changed positions.

That's happened to the Bella Twins

This happened for most of my Mom's pregnancy. The doctor kept getting on her about her weight, saying she was gaining to much in till all of a sudden we both finally showed on a sonogram later into her pregnancy. I am a identical twin.

This is a bit extraordinary of a difference between the two comparing pairs of siblings, yet normally explained using classical genetics

yea, a fraternal twin is no different than any brother genetically, it's just gestation at the same time. So theres an equal *chance* for either bro to match him. all 3 brothers got a toss up of a random 50% of ec parents genes. It just so happened that the two that match got the exact same 50% from ec parents, but the 2nd twin didnt.

With a little bit of luck two twins may have different fathers.

@@larsjonasson2959 it’s possible, but more likely to happen in Soap Operas.

What a blessing! 🙏♥️

This!!

That would be hilarious.

Hahahaha, I love that comment 😂😂

It better involve Dylan Sprouse.

Omg 😂

Master Therion thats absolutely hilarious

The police have been notified.

@@slappy8941 .He said removed, not destroyed.

L O L

Master Therion you’re a monster.

well, the spirit of unborn kids always sticks around! and especially latches on to women who have had abortions! all the spirts are still attached to them today and some can latch on to their living siblings

It is a sad story, but I am happy that one of the twins is well.

@@AlicaSummer 😂🤣😂 okay, there, dude, who told you that? What nonsense.

Premature infants are still jestating in spirit and must survive for the full term before they are present and acounted for person.

@@AlicaSummer No. Just no. That's not funny.

You could be That last type of twin that shares 50 to 100% of the DNA I'm not going to try to spell that type of twin. Something with zygotes lol So you could be identical ish

Chris Heichel For sure, we have identical features.. eyes, nose and mouth shape but that’s about it. I’m also about a foot taller than her though lol

@@darthsilversith667 That's cool you've got a twin, hopefully close

Chris Heichel Definitely!

Ok Paul

Well no, it's not really going wrong if both the twins survive.

I aM it’s an anomaly

@@trenicejohnson15 So is our existence... But that doesn't mean anything went wrong.

No, there was a third distinct type: sesquizygotic.

@Steve Right. I looked that up and 1 twin has normal male parts and the other had both male and female parts since their mother's egg split weirdly. Identical twins whose genes got messed up 🤷

@Lauren Are you an identical triplet or fraternal?

I think it's cool! I have twin daughters. I've known quite a few twins over my lifetime...but I've never met any triplets.

@@b.j.7837 Fraternal. Two girls, one boy, but my sister and I are not identical.

@@jater242 Oh wow! So, in other words, somehow, your mom's ovaries had released 3 eggs, and all 3 eggs got fertilized, and resulted in the 3 of y'all being born? That both amazing and really cool!!!

I guess it's because twins are more common and well-known in popular culture. Personally I think triplets, quadruplets etc. are amazing and very special. I can imagine doctors or scientists would also be very interested to study you. Has this happened ?

Uff da.....I wonder if "odd" is still politically correct description? 🤔

@@christinatweet6580 keep going and we wont be able to say any words.. words will become illegal.

my identical twin sisters have one section on one chromosome that seems different. Curious to know if that section codes for wideness in size, as they are one size apart in clothes. One's face is broader, heart-shaped and more like Mom's, the other's like Great-Uncle Art's oval, half Leningrad half Finn face.

Why is that odd? It's normal and easily explained by classic genetics...fraternal twins are like any 2 siblings. Any 2 full siblings can share more or less than 50% DNA depending if they get alot of the same DNA from ec parent or only a little of the same. 50% is just an average guess. Its just extraordinary for it to be like 90% or 10% Ie Dad dna is 20% ec of : A, B, C, D, and E. Mom's DNA is 20% ec of : F, G, H, I, and J. girl gets: A C, half of E from Dad and G, H and half of I from mom. boy gets A, B and half C from Dad and G H and half of F from mom. These siblings share 25% of the same dads DNA and 40% the same from moms. They are 65% the same. It's totally random.

Or they could have gotten 50% of the same DNA from you. It happens even in siblings that aren't twins. They don't necessarily have to come from the same egg. Could be two eggs contain the same DNA.

do you organs on different sides ?

Wow... that’s cool. Especially the dental x-rays.

@@Q_QQ_Q Luckily it seems that all of our mirroring has been mostly external. Our organs are both normal. We do have some oddities like one being allergic to certain things and the other is immune.

@@reiakari Yo twin, did you just deleted my comment? That was just a joke

@@PrinceKashyap. I didn't see any comment from you. Someone from the channel got to it first, or it might be an error on UKposts's end.

Dwight, is that you?

quote dwight

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.

This is perfect!! And impossible to read without hearing his voice... makes me miss The Office...

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Wow. It's interesting you say you have different personalities too. Do you feel a strong bond with each other ?

Maybe you had a triplet and are chimera.

Pics or it didn’t happen.😉

Sounds like perhaps there was a third embryo that perhaps you absorbed, hence your two different color eyes…

Wow

Are you from one of those places in Central America where "European doctors" immigrated after WW2? No offense, I'm just wondering

@@sarantis1995 No, Dad's side came here in the 1800's from Germany and settled in the Kentucky/Ohio area. Mom's side is German came here in the 1900's settled in North Dakota and French also came in 1900's settled in Minnesota. My parents met when dad was stationed at the Minot AFB. I do, however no reside in the central US, in Kansas...

that is truly spectacular!!! Always wished i had a twin :)

WOW!!! thats just amazing! could you upload that pic somewhere and send us the link here! I WOULD LOVE to see what that looks like!! Mind-bogging!!

ambassador to the world lmao

The fact you said you’re “their ambassador to the world” proves your worthiness to the title

You have the power of one woman and two fetuses

Highlander of the womb!

That's 😢 sad

I think it means the dad was a chimera and his gonads had a different genome than the rest of him.

@@danieloneal7137 *Could have been bigger*

Possible case of chimerism or cheating....... Hhhhhmmmm which one?🤔

I remember the news story. The man had no brother, just some absorbed tissue from what would have been his twin brother. No need to suspect cheating... unless he has a secret evil twin. O_O

@@danieloneal7137 Now that you said that, I think it is likely they have tested it. Poor woman (and his brother) probably had a lot going on in their lifes until a doctor had the idea to test for chimerism in his reproductive organs.

That is so interesting, thanks for sharing.

That is very unique. I don't believe in coincidences, perhaps you are psychic twins too?

Do you have strabismus?

You resonate at the same frequency.

I don't know if I'm as smart as y'all but I didn't understand ANY of that!!!! "your own twin". WHAT!!!!!

Uterus didelphys aka Double Uterus usually results in repeat miscarriages though.

Lisa Ryan True, but there have been a few cases like this one: www.health.com/condition/pregnancy/woman-with-two-uteruses?amp=true

As dissapointing as it is, they wouldn't be medically ruled as twins. They would be ruled "Multiple Singleton pregnancies". (I'm didelphys. My doctor was not laughing at my jokes during my prenatal appointment...)

T Massengill Awww how disappointing! Lmao

This happened to my mom when she was pregnant with me!

Same with my mom's family. Skips generations, it would seem.

@@ryanrenn4815 dang, mine doesn't even skip. in my family, it seems the oldest daughter always has the set of twins. well guess what i am lmao.

@@marna3139 That's so cool!

@@marna3139 well, good luck, lmao

I have always been told that fraternal twins are hereditary, not sure if it is true though 🤷

My sister and I were told we were fraternal at birth because we had separate sacs & placentas. We did a DNA test this past summer (we are 30 Y.O.) and found out we are actually identical. About 1/3 of identical twins are this type...we start from one egg, then split very early on enough to develop separate everything. So on presentation/birth, it basically seems as though they are fraternal. You can only confirm identical vs. fraternal by a DNA test in these types of twins! It's actually more common than people realize...lots of stories online about "fraternal" twins who are actually identical! It's how we found out about it and decided to test ourselves. Everyone always thought we were identical.

I always thought the Olson twins were identical but when they stand together it's obvious they are not.

They might be that “‘more than 50%” type. Can’t have 2 kids acting on tv as one kid and not be identical or close to it for 8 years straight. Their little sister looks a bit like them too, just taller.

Bell pepper twins are my favourite type XD - i mean imagine giving birth and the midwife pulling out a conjoined bell pepper 😄

i had to start over the last one because i was like what

And a puppy with a tail in his head

And then,there's the bi-polar bears who also become....twins! 🤪😄

You have won best comment of the year award! Yay! Lol

I was gonna mention her. I was enthralled with that story.

It is fascinating (and terrifying)!

@@sdrawkcabmiay Her sister wasn't and isn't sentient inside her. It's just Lydia, and her uterus is no different than if one were to have a donated body part.

What I dont understand is as the biological aunt she should have atleast registered on the dna test

@@sdrawkcabmiay of course, that's how dna tests work and the whole point of the story. But she would have had enough DNA in common to come up as a relative which meant if there was an investigation they would know shes atleast related to the kids which should have raised some eyebrows and also made it redundant to have to test the grandmother unless thry thought she was the biological mother. The father was the father too, so that's extra suspicious too. He would have had to have slept with the same woman to keep producing these children and the woman would have had to be related to the mother. Did the police think they had a secret relative popping out babies chained in their basement?

One of my grandsons was born with 3 kidneys and all of them functioned properly. His parents made the decision for him donate the "spare" to an infant who was in kidney failure. Both children are doing amazing today. He was also born with a cleft lip and palate so we assume that the third kidney came about at the same time but developed properly. We could be wrong though since my grandmother also had 3 kidneys.

@@reneematlock9657 This is super fascinating and sounds more like a genetic that twin-based thing

@@thethirdtime9168 i have absolutely no idea how it happened. I'm pretty sure it's not a twin thing since he's the offspring of a "singleton" . Grandma's kidney thing was just weird and most of us didn't find out about her having a third kidney until she passed away in 2007 (at her funeral no less). As our kids say "we have a weird family" . LOL

@@reneematlock9657 Listen, someone needs the genetic foundation of an extra kidney for the whole population to one day have an extra kidney. Your family's doing good work for society!

@@reneematlock9657 Good story! It's even possible to live with only ONE kidney. In his early 40's, my dad lost one of his kidneys due to jaundice....he went on to live to age 93, a very healthy guy....(miss you,dad 😘)

Omg so true! Especially in hindi TV shows and movies! 😂 My brother and I are fraternal twins btw.

Hahahaha

TEST

So true lol

Liv and Maddie from Liv and Maddie are mirror image twins because Liv is left handed and Maddie is right handed

OH MY GOD UR RIGHT LMAOOO

I had the same thought (and now I'm going to be THAT GUY), but I think the twin in question had already been eaten.

@@CasualNotice yes. But absorbed would be a less graphic term😅

@@shanayazaveri2620 Graphic? or delicious?

Its also his DNA.

Good voice, too! 👍

I knew a kid that was a chimera. It was hell trying to get allergies diagnosed because they got different results depending where on the body they did the tests!

@@jolenethiessen357 So only certain parts of their body would have an allergic reaction? That’s very cool but sounds like a big pain :/

Wow how did you find out? Is there some kind of specific test?

Why did I think of the chimera ant arc as soon as I saw the word chimera 💀

@@pxrplehalo LMAOO same-

Lol I think he said "how many recorded cases have been reported" though

I caught that too lol

How many reported cases have been unreported?

😂

That wouldn't make sense since how can you report how many cases haven't been reported

That's incredible!!!

Wow! Thanks for sharing

I was thinking of that when he mentioned the guy!

I love how her last name's Fairchild.

Woah thats crazy! Thanks for the link!

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@@daughteroftheking994 hey, shut up

@@daughteroftheking994 oh my god no one wants to here this were here to learn about the science of different types of twins not repent our sins to a theoretical god

@@hj6507 Jesus loves you

@@itszbebabaybee true he does. But not you. Jesus doesn’t love you. He told me.

My grandmother was the 15th generation of twins. This included fraternal and identical sets. IIRC, most or all of them were left/right handed pairs. The left handed one always passed on the twin line. My grandmother was the left handed one, but her only living left-handed child was my uncle. Difficult for a male to pass on any twin genetics. My mom theorized that he could have been a chimera or have a vanishing twin.

@@b.schurman That's so cool i'm the left handed one, so I hope I will pass it on, I really wants identical twins!

For a second I thought I was a mirror image twin bc he’s left handed and I’m right handed but, we don’t look alike and we are different genders lol

I'm the lefty too! My dad tried to have my teachers switch me to write right handed in kindergarten because that was what happened to him but my mom wouldn't let him. She told him that I will always look exactly like someone else, and she thought that taking away my left handedness would take away from my personal identity.

@@armodillo7447 Boy/girl twins are always fraternal IIRC. My mom theorized that right/left handedness could have to do with which ovary side the embryo originated though!

Daniell Bondad a more clear way to describe it is that this person has two sets of genomes. I mean, what does the separation between your DNA and your twin’s even mean? It’s all you!

Also heard a story about this happening with a woman. Her children did not share her dna because her womb belonged to her vanished twin.

That was the story I heard too. I figured it was just a different guy. As far as knowing which set of DNA is which probably has to do with dominance, whichever set of DNA there is more of? Some of them can tell, like I saw a video of a woman who had 2 different skin tones on different parts of her body, not like the melanin condition, it was just a slight difference. But other people probably can't tell, like one mom had a set of fraternal twin, a singleton, and another set of fraternal twins. So her doctor suggested that it might be possible that she might always drop 2 eggs and the 3rd child was just a chimera. In that case he's probably mostly one set of DNA and the 2nd set is not noticeable.

Dunmer Warrior I saw that one on tv years ago

@jowalter05 That was the one

That's lovely having I love twins, how are you Lydia?

Bophades Nutz SHOOOOOSH PAP

@@vamppanic mine is "louisiana purchase"

Next... As in you already have some metal bands?

@@mohamadalgendy4950 i have rubber bands

*SHOOOOOOOOSH*

U never saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My nephew was born with 12 fingers.

I have seen quite a few documentaries about it extra limbs, adult conjoined twins , and teen girls two heads one body both normal able talk drive play sports, I have also seen a case where the one is dominant fully in control the other is mentally impaired . I think being conscious of your situation and stuck to someone would be worse then an extra limb

I know it probably was wrong of me when I was younger but I am an identical twin, but whenever I would have like a bad pimple for example I would always joke it was my other twin. I dont know where I thought to say that, I guess to make a joke out of being twins because everyone always bugged me and my sister about it. We would get stupid questions like if I hit your sister can you feel it. I guess I thought if I joked about it people wouldn't bother us as much about it. But I think the best question I ever got is how do I know which one I was. You would be surprised at how many times other kids would ask that and be serious about it, lol!

You know what would be cool? If that happened on the top of your head so you had, like, hair that was naturally two colors: brown and black, for example, or red and blonde, etc.

Yes, in light of all the new info. becoming available, it would make one wonder whether one if these unusual situations occurred with those triplets.

i wish you a 4 arms 4 eyes newborn :)....or maybe elf ears

Yeah, I kinda ruined all of that for myself by googling some of these terms. 😲

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@@verreal My mother once dreamt she gave birth to a Raggedy Andy Doll.

@@angieemm googling fetus in fetu may be the biggest mistake i've ever made

Yes, they might get to be your stomach and handle every questionable thing you eat. Fun!

@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 uh what

uh, this body isn't big enough for the both of us! no, wait, it is.... *sigh* But we save on movie tickets! Seriously, just a pita when I go to the doctors and some labs are done. I have to explain 'thats normal for me'.

Did you hear about the lady that had her kids taken away from her because her uterus was actually her sister's? Her DNA didn't match because her children had her sister's DNA.

@@dannahbanana11235 that’s sad, but how did she get her sister’s?

"Old", but 🤩 fabulous in yr own way, I'm sure!!

Nothing wrong with cats.

He could actually get himself pregnant.

@@kristingallo2158 The baby would probably be a bit deformed but yeah

So... did he get periods...?

Does he have a vagina? Friends with benefits on a whole different level.

The next Christ child could be his baby! If he has the rest of the plumbing to go with the ovaries.

Yep. Lydia Fairfairchild in Washington state. And it was indeed the prosecution who first raised the possibility that she was a chimera, after seeing a report of a similar case elsewhere.

I've heard that story. My high school health teacher showed a video talking about it back in freshman year.

This is confusing

That’s gotta suck though never being able to have kids of your “own”

I remember hearing about that! So strange and confusing and fascinating. Even if she is technically having her sister's kids, they're hers, no matter what! Maybe her reproductive organs weren't strong enough so the other twin helped her... Yes, metaphysical, esoteric curiosities. I am filled with them!

I have read about that It is a very rare genetic disorder and most of the time fatal for at least 50% of the patients that's including the child developing and the carrier AKA the pregnant woman

@@christianheichel Of course! I can't even start to imagine every possible way that could've gone wrong, or even the statistics behind each and every step that took place in such an unusual pregnancy.

I met a women who had the opposite happen. She had twins and one fetus had a medical problem and was delivered early; the other was left in to cook for another month or so. They were conceived at the same time, but had different birth days and legal ages.

This could be because she might have had a double uterus. I forgot what the term is.

@@hyrunnisa997 "what the term is" ...the term is Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus aka Uterus Didelphys aka Double Uterus

i Used to coach twins like that. Both Girls were 6 feet tall, one had a cheek mole, the other didn't. One was a much better volleyball player.

If they had moles on opposite sides of the face how did the mom have a hard time telling them apart? I have always been able to tell twins apart. There is always a tell I even when identical. Personalities will be different.

We had that in junior high, But in High School, One twin joined the(American) Football team, the other joined basketball. After four years of commitment, and the Puberty, they DID look like two different people

@@betsyadams9670 because the moles are rather small and you can only see them if you stand right in front of them- that's why

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Fascinating ✨

I wonder if this is a common thing? I have cousins who are twins, and their dad and uncle were twins too.

I was next in line to have twins but when I found out that it was too dangerous for me to get pregnant because my pelvis is tilted then I decided that it’ll be better for me to get my tubes cut and that’s what I did

Not worth the risk

Good luck!

Your family took "Go forth and multiply." seriously, didn't they?

Want to see an image of this? One of the kids who had this condition was Deepak Kumar from India. Just search for his name and twin or parasitic twin and you will see. He was hailed as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu.

Oh gosh then come the arguments of whether or not the person can have the legs removed since it isn’t part of their body and it can’t consent

That's interesting. Is your nose ok?

i feel bad for laughing dshdjshsb

Fire 3334 that is not where i was expecting that to go 😂

As her twin I can validate this statement lol

I hope you are oké😢🤧❤🥺😞🤲

:(

Happend to my brother also. He is identical but only one survived birth.

My brothers twin was also a miscarriage, but idk if that has to do with his current condition either cuz my brother came out Albino as well with some mental learning disabilities. Idk if those are related at all but it always poked my mind whether it's connected or not

Same I was a faternal twin. But my twin was miscarried.

Jinhua Official me as well!

Oof I’m a lefty and my sister is a righty. We’re four years apart (so definitely not twins) but we do get asked if we’re twins a lot. Lol Rip nonexistent/non born twin. I don’t think this is true though because we lefties are our own people like we used to be as common as righties, but then people thought we were devils and started killing us off and we started becoming pretty rare. Yay!

Epiccatqueen 3312 oh dang that’s true, is being a leftie genetic? My parents and grandparents are all righties?

Autumn Franklin no it’s not really. I read this whole thing on it but it’s like if both parents are righties then their first child will most likely be a righty and their second child will most likely be a lefty. There were a lot more statistics and stuff but the only one I memorized was that one because that’s what applied to my family

@@Epiccatqueen-un1ew I know lefties haven't been treated kindly in history (to put it lightly) but I thought it was still a recessive trait?

Autumn Franklin this doesn’t entirely work for ambidextrous people like myself. My brother was left handed and when I was little I copied everything he did until one day I burned my left hand and then I was a righty... now I can use both hands. Although I usually print with my left and do cursive with my right. I do sports left handed and I eat left handed and I brush my teeth left handed but I draw right handed and I brush my hair right handed. Not sure if this is anomalous or normal? Actually all my siblings are left handed except me. My brother and my two step siblings. Oddly, not a single of our 4 parents combined are left handed.

LOOOL indeed

That you know of...

My pinky finger has a little chunk taken out . But whatever

I had mirror image twins in 1990. One twin had heart defects. Transposition dextracardia VSD ASD pulmonary stenosis malformation. Basically a mess. Surgery was carried out 1991. No full correction was possible but repairs were done. However it resulted in a massive insult to her brain. She was nit expected to live beyond her second birthday. She has just recently passed at 31. She was amazing and fought to survive over coming many further problems. She lost her sight was unable to move severe learning difficulties epilepsy eventually undergoing surgery on her hips and her digestive system. I have not heard before now of any other twins who were mirror image and one having cardiac defects. The Drs said the cardiac problems were all down to the mirror image.

Very high risk pregnancy. My grandsons were mono-di twins. Still high risk

Wow. So sorry for the loss if your your sweet girl, but that is an amazing story. ❤ Many blessings to you. I feel if she hasn’t returned to you yet, she will. 🥰❤️

So sorry you lost your baby. Nothing is more heart breaking than losing a child. My prayers are with you

How is the twin that survived doing?

Jeska what does that mean though? How do the male genetics affect you?

​@@nika5318 Roughly half my DNA is male, and half is female. As it was explained to me, the egg either split, or there was two of them together (like a double yolk in a chicken's egg). Each then got fertilized by sperm, and then sometime in the zygote or blastocyst stage, they merged into one. Now I have Blaschko's lines from the patchy mashup of my skin (and the rest of my organs) with some areas being predominantly male, and others being predominantly female. I deal with both male and female cycles of hormones (yeah, it sucks twice as much, but like everyone, I have learned to live with it - mostly). And whenever there are articles or topics about how guys are or how girls are, I tend to relate to all of it fairly equally. In terms of how I feel, I'm bi-gender simultaneous (I feel, think, and identify as both male and female at the same time, 100% of the time). But since more of my male characteristics are recognized IRL, I tend to express as a male IRL, and as a female online. Feel free to inquire more if there's anything else you'd like to know, I'm quite open about it. There's also an expert's forum thread where I go into a lot of detail and people have asked me many questions too. It can be found here: forums. nanowrimo. org/t/ ask-me-about-being-a-genetic-chimera/ 117826 (Minus the spaces)

Jeska so because of the skin mashup do you have more darker and visible hair on the male skin and less on the female skin? Are the hormones only affecting the bodyparts and cells to their gender or is the whole body Influenced with both hormones the whole time. Thank you for elaborating.

@@nika5318 Due to the migraines I suffer and my sensitivity to sunlight which aggravates them, I tend not to go out into the sunlight very often. However, when I do, the male patches of my skin tend to tan quicker and change their texture to be a bit tougher (for lack of a better way to put it) while the female areas tend to burn a bit more and stay softer. This is the only time when the differences of the skin are easy to notice. Other than that, the majority of my chest has female skin and is smooth, soft and hairless, while the majority of the skin on my legs is tougher, and has more hair. My face on the other hand is... odd. I have facial hair like a man (mostly), while there's a distinct line on my scalp near the hairline which almost always seems like it's at war for which set of DNA dominates. My hair then looks, feels, and acts like female hair does, as opposed to male hair (as many barbers, hairdressers, and a couple makeup artists have commented on when working with my hair). One interesting bit to know is that I have both types of ear wax in my right ear, with the dry flaky kind for the majority of it and the sticky goopy kind only near the ear drum, while the left side has mainly the goopy kind. As for the hormones, they effect my entire body. I don't have a uterus, so I don't get periods, but I still get the cramps which would come with them as if I did. As for the emotional swings, I get all of that. Also, many guys think that guys don't have hormone cycles the same way girls do (which simply express differently due to it being a different dominant set of hormones), and that idea is predominant only if they are woefully unaware of themselves. People could learn a lot just by paying attention to when they feel more or less "angry at everything" or "chill". Sadly, there's so little education for guys that helps them understand or learn how to deal with their hormone cycles. I think a lot of good could be done if more self-awareness and skills to help deal with and handle these cycles and the feels that come with them were taught to people (guys and girls, tho girls get some of this, which I think helps overall). [Edited to correct some syntax]

As a side note, I see in some of the other comments that there are stories about mix-ups and problems about children with chimera parents. I've had some of these problems myself. (Warning tho, that part of my life is a very real and personal tragedy - So while I'm okay sharing some of it and answering questions, it may not be something everyone will feel okay reading about.) That said, if there are questions about that, feel free to ask.

If I had situs inversus, I'd get it tattoed somewhere.

@@sohopedeco One of the more sensible reasons to get a tattoo. If I had that, mine would say "Wrong side, bro!"

I have a buddy with it. Things they don't talk about that the hàirs in there nose and ears don't fully form. He gets sinnus infections alot. He also started lactating, had to have breast augmentation to remove the breast tissue. Real messed up stuff.

Agamemnon backwards, too

Eldon Erc There’s supposed to be hair in your ear?

! That would be some surprise!

OKAY that brings up LOTS of questions, oh my goodness

@@ciderofthearctic392 She was a surviving twin, she inherited part of her sister's female organs, according to the doctors, it was most likely an identical twin. My brother is a surviving twin, he only has one set of male organs, lol, and I was pregnant not with twins but two babies at once. One in the womb and one in the ovaries, there was 2 weeks difference between their ages. I miscarried the one at 6 weeks, and when doctors checked me after, they were baffled that I was still pregnant, I ended up having a left-side tubal ligation. Twins run in our family as far back as 8 generations.

@@sandrawalters Oh jeez- are you okay?

@@ciderofthearctic392 This was 35 years ago, physically, I am okay as far as that goes. However, I still remember losing the babies and it still haunts me to this day. Thank you for asking.

That has actually been a defense and there has been a case where someone got off because they could not tell which twin committed the crime of two identical twins when they were both in implicated but things like fingerprints are unique so DNA is the only thing you could leave behind That wouldn't be able to differentiate identical twins if there's any pictures of the side of your head your ears are unique finger prints foot prints if he's a different price as you pointed out I would not suggest trying to commit a crime because you have a identical twin because that's just one thing but if that's all they have then technically you could get off with lack of Evidence reasonable doubt

@@shellnet411 actually, I'm curious because he's the one likely to commit a crime. Have read a few cases where that defense was used. Even heard about one with triplets.

I have seen a short documentary about an identical twin who look polar opposite. Hold on! I will find that for you!

Here’s the clip I saw. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/cGCmlpurbXeezWw.htmlsi=bGdbk36YX_JSu9tv There’s another clip from The Atlantic about another set of non-identical identical twin! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jmB5pGl_pYlprmg.htmlsi=386N015uhDCCvYPQ

Source of that?

So the labour took a month?

@@minervatanhua2387 I'm going to, you know, use my brain, something which you in theory should also have - you being able to type on this phone and comprehend language would suggest that - and say probably not. Most likely both were born at the same time and the younger went into NICU.

@@Warrior_of_Symbolica excuse me, but what is NICU?

@@carcher3279 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive_care_unit

I'm sorry for the loss you and your family are still dealing with. I can't imagine.

Hannah comforting

@@justincoleman3805 lol!!

Are you glad you found out about your twin or would you prefer not knowing anything about this?

The fact that she was stillborn makes me think YOU'RE the stronger one, so she might have been worst of, live life for you AND for her! You may not have known her but she's with you always! In a way she sacrificed herself for you

I am a twin and mirror image of my sister. I have a non pigment mark on my upper thigh, and my sister has a darker mark on her opposite upper thigh, as if she took my pigment from me.

Wow, that is amazing. I know a guy who was also born very premature, and is just quite short and has dyslexia. Not sure how the dyslexia relates, it probably doesn’t, but as he said: “I’m short, can’t even read, and I still get girls, so there’s hope for everyone”. Made me laugh.

How many months apart were they development wise?

@@thiccredgyal3404 Physical milestones like holding their head steady, rolling over, sitting up etc were about 2 to 3 months apart. They got teeth about the same time, started to speak at the same time.

wow❤

@@sandraleech2060 my friend's twin sons were similar

Hey, I hope you don’t mind me asking but what’s the 2 DNA sources you use was it like saliva for the first one and then like hair for the second one ? Also did you use 23 and me ? I always thought those DNA tests kits let you send saliva only. Sorry for all the questions, I’m just really curious lol

@@micaella2294 it’s np. They do typically always use saliva for recreational DNA tests like ancestry or 23&me, but I’ve had medical tests done for my autoimmune issues that used blood instead, which yields different results from my spit. Funny enough some of the few things my first test (saliva) did get right was that I can taste calcium, am sensitive to sweet but not bitter, and don’t taste soap when I eat cilantro. AKA, the sample taken from my mouth was really only right about the parts of my DNA that affected my mouth.

My friends daughter is a chimera too - she has two different coloured eyes, one is golden brown, the other is really dark brown - and she has two different skin colours that swirl together in different areas.

@@tuathadesidhe1530 That sounds so awesome! I hope she learns to cherish and appreciate it later on in her life. Early on kids will be cruel though I'm sure. :( I once knew a girl that didn't have different "skin colors", but patches of pink skin like flower petals all over her body. It looked really, really cool and in a good way was as unique as her personality.

Chimera twins is one of the most interesting things I've ever seen! I think it's freakishly cool, I hope you don't have too much pain going through life! You're awesome :D

Were they okay? Being born so early, I mean?

@@criminyworldriseedify8962 yes they were born at 32 weeks and 3 ilbs each after 3 weeks in NICU they came home at 4 lbs each - first year was a nightmare but every year afterwards got a bit easier. They are 25 now. tkx

were they identical?

Can we hear names?🥰😅

@@anjali4440 over 95% of naturally conceived triplets are a "pair and a spare" identical twins and their fraternal triplet. So yes two are identical and the third is not.

Screw that sensitive presentation crap. I wanted high resolution close up photos of freaks!

@@tomjacobson7623 ok then

Ever since I found out I was having twins I have been fascinated with the science of it. Still don't know if mine are identical or fraternal and now partially identical! Probably identical though...

Kewtie that’s so cool! I have two single children, although my eldest child was big enough to be twins! (10lbs 6oz, or about 4.5kg) You may be able to ask the sonographer or the consultant if they know? Sometimes they can tell by how the placenta and amniotic sacks are presented. Good luck with everything!! Have you though of names yet? I always said if I had twins I would call them Heather and Fern is girls or Paris and Cairo if mixed/boys (Paris is unisex here). But that was when I was a kid lol, I’m kinda glad I didn’t have twins because those names might not be so good lol

@@terryenby2304 Oh, mine just turned 2 today. They are Michael and Calvin. They had separate placentas so they have a 30% chance of being identical. We'll have to do a DNA test to know for sure, but we think identical because they look super similar.

so two chimeras

That’s lowkey hilarious the way you worded rhat

Survival of the fittest at it’s finest 😂😂😂

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If identical twins married identical twins, their kids would be brothers or sisters AND cousins.

@@caroljomartin3051 Happened at least once. Twin brothers married twin sisters and each had twins with one of them having a single birth. Could have been a chimera, though.

Carol Jo Martin If their kids had kids what relationship would the kids’ kids have?

Pi an incest one.

@@alexwang982 They would be in superposition between cousins and second cousins.

I went to school with a girl who claimed she and her brother were identical twins. I always thought she meant fraternal but now watching this... maybe she did mean identical. Or that last one...

I think you may like to see the set of identical twins (Megan and Morgan Boyd), but one of them has heterochromia (one eye blue and other brown)

Ashley Johnson i want to meet you just- wow that so so soooo cool

I have a twin(identical) but we don't look identical,more fraternal (or half and half?)we both have blu eyes and brown hair(but those traits are common in my family)but my twin always looked more similar to my big brother!!So I always had the same questions as u!!. I developed 1 week later but we had 2 amniotic bags and one umbilical cord but we are monozygotic twins!!!I hope i will find answers like u!!

My sister, my unborn triplet and I shared a placenta, the triplet died and we absorved them, but we are fraternal, the placentas just... joined into a big one.

LMAO! I have friends that got in vitro fertilization, and as a result, despite hoping to be lucky enough to just have one baby, they got fraternal twins. It was the same with them, haha. As an aside, I have two kids, and they're not twins, except in the Irish sense... But when I was pregnant with my daughter, I got so big, so fast, that my ex-husband's first breathless words when they were first doing the sonogram, were... Lay it on me Doc, how many are there? Thankfully, there was only one, my daughter... but nevertheless, his response reminds me of yours, LOL.

Hahaha oh my god I feel that. Totally different backstory but I remember the lady doing the ultrasound saying "yes I see a heartbeat ..... And there's another heartbeat" We were like what?... And I can't remember what she said but it sunk in and she handed me a box of tissues and I yelled "Tissues aren't gonna help me now!!" Good times...

One baby, two babies, THREE babies, Mwahahaha!

@@charlottegrace6656 That reminds me of Monica and Chandler's twins where the birth mom thought "both heartbeats are strong" meant the baby's and hers, not two babies.

6 +6+11=23 not 21....

@@joandougan8682 thanks for correcting it. It was a typo error.

Whoah!