Please circle answer
Age: 17
Gender: Female
1) How well do you know a set of identical twins?
(C) Friends
2) Do you know one twin better than the other or do you have the same relationship with both twins?
(B) Same relationship with both twins.
3) Have they ever dressed alike?
(B) No
5) Have the twins you know ever switched places at school and pretended to be each other?
(A) Yes
6) Romantically do the twins:
(C) Don’t know
7) At home do you think they receive the same amount of parental attention?
(A) Yes
8) At school do they tend to have the same group of friends?
(A) Yes
9) Do you believe they have the same group of friends because they are twins?
(A) Yes
10) Have you asked either or both “What’s it like being a twin”?
(B) No
12) When you first met the twins, what did you think about them? (Can have more than one answer)
(B) You believed they were complete copies (clones) of one another.
(C) They were basically the same person with different personalities
13) Do you see identical twins as individuals, just as non-twins sisters and/or brothers are?
(A) Yes
14) When you first met twins do you believe you treated them differently than you would have if they were non-twins?
(B) No
15) Do you think most people treat them this way too?
(B) No
16) Do you believe identical twins have a special connection with each other?
(A) Yes
17) Do you believe identical twins can? (can circle more than one)
(A) Feel each other’s pain
(B) Read each other’s minds
18) What do you think are the advantages of being an identical twin?
Being able to fool friends when they swap places. Able to communicate with each other freely because they are the same age, have the same characteristics and you know, has the feeling of what the other is going through in all situations. Swap study notes if one has a bad teacher, study together and test each other in exam periods.
19) What do you think are the disadvantages of being an Identical twin?
The disadvantage is probably one twin sick and tired of being called the other one and has to constantly correct everyone if they call her the wrong twin
20) Would you like to be an identical twin?
(A) Yes
21) Why/Why Not?
Because then I’d have someone closer to me who I can confide secrets to, girltalk, gossip, study with etc. etc. I have a younger and older sister with a 2 year gap in between each of them however I’m not that close to them. I have a cousin who is only one year younger then me and we just talk like we’re sisters/best friends (oops! I mean gossip
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