Any other Aspie twins out there?

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Hello! Our names are Sara and Cynthia. We're twin sisters with Asperger's. We've never known of any other twins wth the disorder. Being twins with Asperger's is like having Asperger's doubled. All of our phobias are amplified because we sort of feed off of each other. However, it's kind of cool because we both have someone who at least always understands what we're going through. We look forward to meeting others here.

I am one and felt mostly the same way. The problem is it gets worse if one twin decides to run away from home.

Just out of interest, why do you share an account? I don't mean to be offensive or anything, I'm just interested because you're the first set of twins I've encountered who are embracing the unity that is expected of identical twins (I assume you're identical, correct me if I am mistaken). All of the identical twins I have met, including my grandma and her twin sister, have strove to forge different identities for themselves.

The twins I knew best even went so far as refusing to have the same friends, and one of them wore contacts and the other wore glasses, etc. etc.

Twins are fascinating from many perspectives, I read a few studies into the field of identical twin sexuality, and gender (e.g. the rate at which the identical twin of a trans person was trans as well).

I am not a twin, and although I do not have the twin experience so I cannot say how I would have felt if I had, I have always felt apart from my family. I have always felt like I could not tell them how I felt about anything - which was evident from a very, very young child as I would go completely silent when I was upset which would infuriate my family and they would yell at me for sulking - and that I was in no way similar to them. I had a large vernacular, was rather well spoken, proper (children at school used to think I was 'posh') and extremely rigid in my views of right and wrong. My family ranged from semi-literate prostitutes to rather racist and half-assedly religious.

But you did not come here to hear about me.

Welcome to Wrongplanet. I hope you come to enjoy it here, and develop an indication system so we know which one of you is talking.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Replying to your response, we chose to have a joint account because we usually end up posting similar stuff anyway so we thought it would save time. Yes, we've never met any other twins who want to be the same either. all the others we've met want to be different. I (Sara is speaking here) think that because teachers and relatives wanted to separate us so much when we were young, we are rebelling against it. Society's norm is to make twins opposites. Just look at "The Parent Trap"! We're sick of this stereotype and we embrace being identical twins .
We know what you mean about being yelled at for sulking. We're always quiet at family gatherings too. This is usually because we don't get talked to or because the conversation around us is inane. Thanks for your reply and we look forward to chatting more in the future.


Just out of interest, why do you share an account? I don't mean to be offensive or anything, I'm just interested because you're the first set of twins I've encountered who are embracing the unity that is expected of identical twins (I assume you're identical, correct me if I am mistaken). All of the identical twins I have met, including my grandma and her twin sister, have strove to forge different identities for themselves.

The twins I knew best even went so far as refusing to have the same friends, and one of them wore contacts and the other wore glasses, etc. etc.

Twins are fascinating from many perspectives, I read a few studies into the field of identical twin sexuality, and gender (e.g. the rate at which the identical twin of a trans person was trans as well).

I am not a twin, and although I do not have the twin experience so I cannot say how I would have felt if I had, I have always felt apart from my family. I have always felt like I could not tell them how I felt about anything - which was evident from a very, very young child as I would go completely silent when I was upset which would infuriate my family and they would yell at me for sulking - and that I was in no way similar to them. I had a large vernacular, was rather well spoken, proper (children at school used to think I was 'posh') and extremely rigid in my views of right and wrong. My family ranged from semi-literate prostitutes to rather racist and half-assedly religious.

But you did not come here to hear about me.

Welcome to Wrongplanet. I hope you come to enjoy it here, and develop an indication system so we know which one of you is talking

Welkome to WP

Mick