Twins - one left handed?

Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 4:54 am Post subject: Twins - one left handed?

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Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 5:09 am Post subject: re: Twins - one left handed?

Mine are both righties, like their dad. But then they are fraternal twins, to which I don't think this applies.

Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 5:17 am Post subject:

Mine are identicals, but they are only 18 months so we don't know yet.

I have a close friend who has fraternal twins, and one is left, one is right.

Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 5:36 am Post subject:

all identical twins I know are lefty and righty.
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Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 5:37 am Post subject: re: Twins - one left handed?

I am teaching twins this year, and they are identical but their mother told me once that they are "mirror image twins". Only some identical twins are like this.

Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 5:58 am Post subject: re: Twins - one left handed?

im an identical twin and my sister and I are right and left. and we are considered mirror image twins. I have a spot on one side of my face and she has it on the other and personality wise we are very opposite aswell.

Posted: Fri, Sep 19 2008, 7:31 am Post subject:

Wow I inspired a thread Smile

Nechama showed a preference for her left hand really early, but I never thought of it as a twin thing (dh and I are right handed, but we both have direct relitives who are leftys). My twins are not identical. At least they don't look much alike, we haven't done a dna test. We're pretty sure they are fraternal though.
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mirror image twins will be lefty-righty and will probably have different personalities, one more right-brain and one more left-brain. I think, though, people notice the diffs more b/c they're twins, the way you can tell that two pieces of cloth that look the same are NOT the exact same color only when they're side-by-side. If they were a year or two apart instead of twins you might remark more on their similarities than on their diffs.

Not all twins are mirror- image. Non-mirror-image identicals can both be one or the other.

Posted: Thu, Oct 23 2008, 9:10 am Post subject:

I find this subject very interesting. I think that our identical twins are regular, not mirrored. But honestly I haven't looked that closely. I do think they're both right handed.
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one of my twins writes with right hand the other twins writes with left hand.

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I have triplets but I don't know yet if any are lefties.