For my first eight years, everyone could’ve seen me matching from head to toe with another human being, my twin sister. We’ve been the best of friends since we were born. We are inseparable. I hear all the time “Oh you’re so lucky! I wish I had a twin!” And although they are right; yes I got super lucky getting to grow up with my best friend, but once I got to high school, I noticed that I had gotten my individuality stolen from me. We share the same interests in almost everything, we have a lot of the same friends, and we barely spend any time apart. But as I grew up, it finally hit me that I wasn’t necessarily my own person. Instead of “Amelia Faust,” I was known as “one of the Faust Twins.” Everywhere we would go together it was always “The Faust Twins.” Twins and Individuality: a Parent’s Perspective, Kelli, a mother and author of the page, writes that there seems to be two basic schools of thought on the matter of becoming an individual. The first one is that individuality in twins must be encouraged and the second is that individuality naturally develops on it’s own with twins. Identical twins, have a distinctive bond, by sharing a womb, accomplishing every milestone together, and looking the same by having similarities in their appearances. I personally think that it naturally develops on its own over a period of time. I believe that in order to find yourself as an individual being a twin instead of always being a pair, you have to go out of your comfort zone and learn to experience things on your own. At the end of the article they say that, “twins are unique individuals, but also unique because they are twins. Both aspects should be embraced.”
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