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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out that my sister has been telling people I’ve been dead for the last 3 months, to cover up the fact she used me to commit identity fraud. We’re identical twins. FML
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
Today, as I was getting x-rays of my arm, I heard one technician ask another, "Are you sure those are hers?" At 17, I have weaker bones than my grandma. FML
Today, I went to see the doctor for my daughter and myself. I fell two weeks ago, I thought I'd sprained my ankle but apparently I broke my leg instead. I’ve been limping around for two weeks. My daughter was sick, which is the only reason I got X-rayed. It may need screws. FML
Today, our mom hit my brother's head hard against the wall. He was taken to the hospital with a head wound. He came home in the evening, and said that his mom told him to say that it was his sister who'd hit him with a ball. My brother had told me the story and I'd recorded it on a tape recorder. FML
Today, I, a person who will be 21 in a few months, was mistaken for my mom's older brother. My mom is in her fifties. Apparently this is becoming increasingly common, because the world sucks. I didn't realize it was affecting me this badly. FML
Today, two days after leaving hospital with a broken left leg, I tripped and fell heavily on the floor. My dad quickly asked if I'd broken my other leg. When I reassured him that I hadn't, he disappointedly muttered that it would've been a hilarious story to tell his friends at work. FML
Today, I kicked my coffee table while barefoot, got an X-ray, and I’d cracked the bone. Got home, kicked the exact same table with the exact same toe, got another X-ray, the crack is now a full-on break. What a day. FML
Today, my son broke his arm roughhousing with his brother on a bunk bed. While at the ER, he thought it would be funny to tell a different story to each doctor and nurse, forcing me to speak over him. They found this behavior "suspicious" and reported us to child services. FML
Today, my dad has dementia and has been getting my name wrong with increasing frequency. During one of his lucid moments, he ended up admitting those wrong names are actually of his other 7 kids, my half siblings to various women, 5 in this country and 2 in Europe, but I’m not to tell my mother. FML
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Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Even worse, you may now no longer know which one of you is the evil twin!
Bogrbon 27
We have twins on the way, and that was frankly one of the most terrifying things for me. Fortunately it looks like we have a boy and a girl, so they should in theory be hard to mix up.
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Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Even worse, you may now no longer know which one of you is the evil twin!
Miss_Red 18
As an identical twin myself.. I can tell you with 100% certainty that its both. 😏😆😆
Yudith 28
Or worse, they will know for sure, since the evil one is the one without the ex-broken leg.
Bogrbon 27
We have twins on the way, and that was frankly one of the most terrifying things for me. Fortunately it looks like we have a boy and a girl, so they should in theory be hard to mix up.
tiptoppc 21
An accident with scissors may make that harder.
Liam Rowley 17
“In theory” 😂
RichardPencil 32
Does it really matter? Unless your parents did something like naming you Winner and Loser.
Plop 17
Worse, it means you've been using each other's partners, clothes, jobs, hobbies all this time! Quick, swap!
legalgravethief 8
Dude, we need more to this story
Marcella1016 32
So what happens now?? Do you guys switch back or what? Legally chance you’re names? Have an identity crisis to deal with the rest of your life? It’s kind of weird...you were old enough to break your leg and it fully heal, but not old enough to know your own name and notice when it “changed”? That Legal guy was right, come give us more details!
Justkidding100 41
maybe she just forgot which twin broke the leg, if you were too young to even remember then you were too young for it to matter much. neither of you were walking.