Comments on: Left Handed Twins http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:11:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Judy http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17085 Judy Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:33:29 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17085 I am an identical/mirror twin and left handed and my twin sister is right handed. Our parents could not tell us apart nor our teachers and later our children when younger. Life has been most interesting! I intend to order the National Geographic "In the Womb: Multiples" as it must be very informative. I am an identical/mirror twin and left handed and my twin sister is right handed. Our parents could not tell us apart nor our teachers and later our children when younger. Life has been most interesting! I intend to order the National Geographic “In the Womb: Multiples” as it must be very informative.

]]> By: Gary http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17041 Gary Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:13:00 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17041 sorry - typo above: ...where one is left handed and the OTHER IS right handed. sorry - typo above:

…where one is left handed and the OTHER IS right handed.

]]> By: Gary http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17040 Gary Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:10:32 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-17040 Ok folks, lets do a bit of deductive reasoning here. If left handedness is caused by the left handed twin surviving this “vanishing twin syndrome” in mirror twins - then it stands to reason that there should be loads of sets of idenical twins alive today where one is left handed and the right handed. Unfortunately I dont know the stats regarding the amount of twins where this is the case but it doesn't sound like a common phenomenon. Although, I too am left handed - so maybe I am a 'twin-eater'! Ok folks, lets do a bit of deductive reasoning here. If left handedness is caused by the left handed twin surviving this “vanishing twin syndrome” in mirror twins - then it stands to reason that there should be loads of sets of idenical twins alive today where one is left handed and the right handed.

Unfortunately I dont know the stats regarding the amount of twins where this is the case but it doesn’t sound like a common phenomenon.

Although, I too am left handed - so maybe I am a ‘twin-eater’!

]]> By: claudia http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16963 claudia Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:57:01 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16963 cool!!! i'm 20, and i'm lefthanded and my mom told me this morning about that twin theory, so i started searching... and thats so cool, i dont know if i had a twin but i have always been a weird person, i would be weirder with a twin, love the idea. cool!!! i’m 20, and i’m lefthanded and my mom told me this morning about that twin theory, so i started searching… and thats so cool, i dont know if i had a twin but i have always been a weird person, i would be weirder with a twin, love the idea.

]]> By: sam http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16918 sam Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:40:11 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16918 i no this sounds weird there is no evedince that im a twin but all my life iv felt like im a twin somethings missing i think i was a twin im left handed and just feel that i was a twin and i miss it some how. i no this sounds weird there is no evedince that im a twin but all my life iv felt like im a twin somethings missing i think i was a twin im left handed and just feel that i was a twin and i miss it some how.

]]> By: Suzy http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16857 Suzy Wed, 21 May 2008 18:01:41 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16857 I am 24 and know I am the "survivor" of vanishing twin syndrome. My mother had bleeding very early on in her pregnancy and was sure she was expecting twins (they also run in our family). For the record I am left handed and its quite strange because despite always feeling like a part of me is missing (interestingly Alanna wrote it felt like a part of her soul is missing - well me too) I've also felt a strange feeling of being watched/looked over as if by my deceased twin. Quite a comforting thought in a rather tragic situation.. I am 24 and know I am the “survivor” of vanishing twin syndrome. My mother had bleeding very early on in her pregnancy and was sure she was expecting twins (they also run in our family). For the record I am left handed and its quite strange because despite always feeling like a part of me is missing (interestingly Alanna wrote it felt like a part of her soul is missing - well me too) I’ve also felt a strange feeling of being watched/looked over as if by my deceased twin. Quite a comforting thought in a rather tragic situation..

]]> By: ymke de decker http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16819 ymke de decker Sun, 04 May 2008 16:49:36 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16819 both my two kids are lefthanded, although i am not nor were their fathers lefthanded. i too believe in the vanishing twin syndroom. what other explaination could there be? twins run in the family, right? well, both my kids come from different fathers, and there were twins in their families, and in my family! when i saw this documentary, i was quite astonished, that's when i relised that it was quite odd, that both my kids are lefthanded... from a righthanded mom both my two kids are lefthanded, although i am not nor were their fathers lefthanded. i too believe in the vanishing twin syndroom. what other explaination could there be? twins run in the family, right? well, both my kids come from different fathers, and there were twins in their families, and in my family!
when i saw this documentary, i was quite astonished, that’s when i relised that it was quite odd, that both my kids are lefthanded…

from a righthanded mom

]]> By: Idetrorce http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16316 Idetrorce Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:27:16 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16316 very interesting, but I don't agree with you Idetrorce very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

]]> By: Alanna http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16153 Alanna Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:55:51 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16153 I am 17 and I am left handed. When my mom went to go for her first pregnancy check-up they said she was going to have twins (because the size of her cervix and something else, i dont remember) Well, by her first ultra sound there were no twins, just me. My mom jokes that I "ate my twin", it is a myth that left-handed people eat their twins (well, absorb them). I know that I didn't eat it, lol.. but I know that I am the only one who survived. Someone asked me If I've always felt like something was missing, and I often do. Like a piece of my soul is missing, sounds weird, i know. I am 17 and I am left handed. When my mom went to go for her first pregnancy check-up they said she was going to have twins (because the size of her cervix and something else, i dont remember) Well, by her first ultra sound there were no twins, just me. My mom jokes that I “ate my twin”, it is a myth that left-handed people eat their twins (well, absorb them). I know that I didn’t eat it, lol.. but I know that I am the only one who survived.
Someone asked me If I’ve always felt like something was missing, and I often do. Like a piece of my soul is missing, sounds weird, i know.

]]> By: sharon http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16017 sharon Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:10:40 +0000 http://charlestaylor.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/multiple-births/#comment-16017 My daughter is four and is left handed, I always had a weird feeling during pregnancy that there was more than one! However, what I do find really difficult is teaching her (trying to) read, write etc... she does everything and understands differently, she is ( I know) a clever wee girl, but I sometimes feel the way she is being taught is not really helping her, in away it's as though we are trying to get her to use a part of the brain that she does not understand! it's so frustrating cause she is soooo clever... I just want to understand the best way to help her and get over the whole 'right handed is normal' thing!!! My daughter is four and is left handed, I always had a weird feeling during pregnancy that there was more than one! However, what I do find really difficult is teaching her (trying to) read, write etc… she does everything and understands differently, she is ( I know) a clever wee girl, but I sometimes feel the way she is being taught is not really helping her, in away it’s as though we are trying to get her to use a part of the brain that she does not understand! it’s so frustrating cause she is soooo clever… I just want to understand the best way to help her and get over the whole ‘right handed is normal’ thing!!!

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