Today, I had to dig up my twin boys birth certificates for baseball registration. Turns out I had been calling both of them by the other twin's name for eight and a half years. FML
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Today, I found out that I've been calling my boyfriend's dad by the wrong name for the past two years. No one had told me sooner because they liked laughing at me for it when I wasn't around. FML
Today, I realized that since I was in elementary school, my friends, my workmates, and even my family, all call me accidentally by someone else's name instead of my actual name. I'm 30 years-old. FML
Today, I was mistaken for my twin brother twice. This probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't a girl. FML
Today, I realized that I've been using the wrong name for a coworker for the past 6 months. I just found out their real name when I saw their name tag. FML
Today, I found out I've been misspelling my middle name for 25 years. FML
Today, I came home to my wife crying. She had mixed up our newborn twin girls and couldn't tell which was which. I looked at the girls. Neither could I. FML
Today, I found out that my eight year old son is actually my nephew. FML
Today, I got an X-ray and the nurse happened to mention the old break in my leg. Mom always said it was my twin brother who'd broken his leg. Can you see where this is going? I have now confirmed that at some point mom mixed me and my brother up, so we’ve being using each other’s names for 35 years FML
Today, I learned that being a twin really isn't that cool. After laughing at my twin brother for getting a speeding ticket he turns to me and says "It's not mine." Confused, I look at the ticket and see my name. He used my license. FML
Today, I found out that my parents have been lying about my birthday. Now it makes sense how they "lost the birth certificate" or how many photos of me as a baby are dated before I was actually supposed to be born, because "the camera must've glitched, we must've confused the date we wrote in the back of that card." FML
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jshsmith1995 0
how would finding their birth certificates help distinguish their names?
sourkrout94 0
hahah way to go..
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zander2413 0
Ur a horrible mom
Snowble11 13
psshhh, so what. imagine if you had triplets or you were octomom
mrmerino 0
haha that's like a sitcom
nerdsgetmehot 23
Oh well! A name doesn't mean much. My real name is Katherine, but no one calls me that! So technically everyone I know has been calling me by the "wrong" name my whole life...And knew they were doing it. :P
djmacncheeze 6
yeah I don't go by my first name
snippyxD 7
Snippy doesnt use her name @ all O.
snippyxD 7
Snippy doesnt use her name @ all O.o
MA_COTA 0
ur mothering skills suck
imOaks 3
67 just made my IQ drop 56 points.
IndiRae 9
Judging by your photo, it wasn't that big of a drop.
Moobug 4
I'm really confused by all the 'but how do you know they're the wrong names' comments... one twin would have been born before the other (probably impossible that both arrive at the same time, even in caesarian), and the time of birth is on the Birth Cert. My understanding was that the mother had been calling the eldest by the youngest's name, etc...
Moobug 4
Just checked my own kids' certificates - my bad. The time of birth and weight at birth is on the letter you take with you to get the certificate. With multiples, does the certificate show the child is one of twins/triplets, etc? I'm curious now.
iamtwiggyme 0
I'm an identical twin and it doesn't say that I am on my birth certificate. Only the date and time I was born.
Kukua 5
Plus, as others have said, how can you tell by looking at your twins which one is older by a few seconds/minutes? My guess is that her twins aren't actually identical and when they were only a day or so old, she forgot which name she gave to each child. Either that, or the hospital put the wrong names on the paperwork and she just never noticed.
streborkcim 0
still, if they're identical she would only remember the times of birth by name.
Moobug 4
I figured that perhaps the mother thought the eldest was called X and the youngest Y, and always did remember which was the eldest by their birth weight or a birth mark or something, then discovered that she'd mixed the names around at some point in the first few days... but trying to get my head around this is confusing me even more!! I guess we'll never know unless OP turns up to clarify.
DeadxManxWalking 27
how'd you figure that out?
BellaMarta 19
if they're identical then who needs to know?
77wade 0
hi
marsha1239 4
people who are saying identical twins have the same fingerprints you are dumb, they may have really similar finger prints but they would be different bc you get scars and other minor details on your fingers which help tell you apart and alot of people are born with blue eyes which change when there older same thing with hair