@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-square35fedilinkarrow-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-square35fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglish6•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_krishnalinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoYou likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglish3•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_krishnalinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoSounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
minus-square@CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink2•1 year agoSo like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoBy imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.
minus-square@corsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilink4•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!