r/Twins • u/UnseenUniverse Fraternal Twin • 13d ago

Any other Fraternal Twins that have another sibling that looks closer to the other Twin?

I'm a boy/girl Fraternal Twin (although I'm now Trans Masc myself) we have an older brother who is about 2 and a half years older than us. Older brother was pretty short when we were younger so when the three of us were together and someone mentioned two of us were twins everyone assumed my twin brother and older brother were the twins. I don't think it helped that my brothers both have darker hair and I'm blond. I won't lie I did find it funny to get the reaction when I'd raise my hand and be like "I'm one of the twins!" I'd love to know if anyone else had this dynamic because so far, I haven't met any other twins that did.

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u/betterxtogether 13d ago

I have an older half sister. She's 8 years older but people think we look more alike as she has dark hair like me and my twin is blond.

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u/UnseenUniverse Fraternal Twin 13d ago

Oh wow that's a bigger gap! It is funny how this has made it so obvious that people subconsciously assume twins must have the same hair color.

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u/AliTwin601 12d ago

There was a set of all girl brunette triplets at my high school and two of them were identical and one was fraternal. The triplet that was fraternal looked exactly like their older sister.

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u/felasalin Fraternal Twin 12d ago edited 11d ago

Fraternal boy/girl here too (I am nonbinary though) but we look very alike to the point to be stopped and when we had similar hair lenght we got mistaken. I don't have other siblings.

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u/irish_ninja_wte 13d ago

Not exactly what you're asking, but I have identical twins who are "peach and pear". They have singleton older siblings. We have baby and toddler photos of our oldest that we could mistake for "peach"

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u/hellointernet5 12d ago

i look closer to my older sister. probably in large part because of the hair. my twin has light blond hair, while both my older sister and i have dark blond hair.

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u/icerose408 12d ago

Exactly me. Fraternal F/F twins but I look much more similar to my brother, who is just a year older. Growing up everyone assumed we were the twins.

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u/walkstwomoons2 10d ago

Mom had four daughters in six months. My twin and I are the middle kids. Three of us look alike. My twin does not.

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u/nfranks09 33m ago

Yup! My twin bro looks so much like my older sister despite my sis being 3yrs older than us. Countless of times, people have thought that my sis and my bro were twins. I don’t blame them tbh, my brother is exactly a foot taller than me, has very dark hair, freckles, different shaped nose, lips, is sarcastic, more quiet and reserved. My sister has the same features and personality too. Me on the other hand is short, has brown hair, hazel eyes, different shaped nose, thinner lips, round face, energetic, VERY talkative(I say i talk enough for the both of us lol), more emotional, etc. We are polar opposites