CraigOhMyEggo to Asklemmy · 7 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-square30fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down13
arrow-up141arrow-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 to Asklemmy · 7 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 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-squarev_krishnalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoYou likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 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_krishnalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoSounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
minus-squareCraigOhMyEggoOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoSo like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoBy imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoI had the opposite: they didn’t know my bro was coming until I was already here and - look! - it’s another one!
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.
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.
I had the opposite: they didn’t know my bro was coming until I was already here and - look! - it’s another one!