CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoWhat's the closest thing you have to a life story/occurrence that would be the kind of story they'd tell on Untold Stories of the ER?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the closest thing you have to a life story/occurrence that would be the kind of story they'd tell on Untold Stories of the ER?CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWhen my mother was pregnant with me, it was said that I had an opposite gender twin, but then comes my birth and such a twin is nowhere to be found.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoI had the opposite: they didn’t know my bro was coming until I was already here and - look! - it’s another one!
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoYou likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat used to be a theory, but it was looked into and it doesn’t seem to be what happened (also didn’t know that doesn’t just happen to identical twins).
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
minus-squareCraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoSo like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoBy imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.
When my mother was pregnant with me, it was said that I had an opposite gender twin, but then comes my birth and such a twin is nowhere to be found.
I had the opposite: they didn’t know my bro was coming until I was already here and - look! - it’s another one!
You likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
That used to be a theory, but it was looked into and it doesn’t seem to be what happened (also didn’t know that doesn’t just happen to identical twins).
Sounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
So like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
By imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.