CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year 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@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year 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_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYou likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year 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-up9·1 year agoSounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
minus-squareCraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoSo like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBy imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year 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!