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How To Be A Twin Persuasive Essay

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“Wait, are you guys twins?”
This has to be the most frequently asked and the second most annoying question I receive on practically a daily basis. The first one being “Is it annoying getting asked if you’re twins all the time?” To further debunk any future ones: we do not have telepathic powers, yes we fight like any other siblings, and no we do not do everything together. It’s not quite as picture perfect as how The Parent Trap, Sister Sister, or Twitches tends to portray it. Many often try to create a competition to determine who must be “better”— which apparently involves asking about my intelligence, athleticism, and our five minute gap to determine who is superior. (As the younger twin, I was often put at a disadvantage.) I never understood …show more content…

I was rarely called Olivia as a child, it was often “Natalie and Olivia” or “the twins.” It has been tough striving to be an individual when you have involuntarily been given a second name to be called by. My entire life has consisted of my identity being mistaken, mixed up, and misguided. As I reached my teenage years, I wanted more and more to be known as myself and not just a package deal. I joined clubs. I participated in sports. I made new friends. I tried anything I could to stand out as myself. From bickering over wearing “too similar” outfits to dying my hair a shockingly bright pink(with some regrets), I made desperate attempts throughout my years of middle and high school to be different from my sister. And in the end, hardly any of it ever prevented getting a painful “Hey Natalie” in the hallway.
It was hard to come by this realization, but I have learned to embrace that being an identical twin is simply a part of who I am and who I always will be. And as I am growing older, I realize our lives are taking drastically different paths. Natalie has always been an introvert who loves working with computers, I am more extroverted and love the outdoors. I always wrestled with myself thinking that being a twin made me lose my individuality, but instead it has rather pushed me to discover myself and distinguish who I truly am. Being a twin is an incomparable experience and I wouldn’t trade it in for the

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