I decided to do my reflection post on the article "The Identity Dance." It was really interesting to read how two humans with the same genetic make-up can have two completely different personalities or experience traumatic events in completely opposite ways. I have a friend who has twin girls who are fraternal, but they look almost identical and share a lot of the same interests in clothes, TV, music and so on. They don't have the exact same genetic make-up, but they are more similar than some of the identical twins in the article. I suspect it could be some what genetic since they have the same parents, but also sociocultural because they are both girls of the same age, go to school together, share a room and are basically each others best friend.
The identical twins in the stories seem to share the biological factors such as hair color, body structure, habits and ability to know what the other sibling is thinking. In the case of the Pena sisters, the older sister, Sandra took the role of the big sister because she was born a few minutes before Marisa. She was confident and outgoing. Marisa was more reserved and shy. They both experienced losing their parents subsequently, but Marisa took it the worst and it had a huge impact on her life. She wasn't able to thrive without her counterpart. Sandra took it as an opportunity to change her circumstances, but realized she too felt a void without her sister. She was taking on the role of the nurturer at that point. The story didn't mention how they were brought up by their parents, but it the story made it sound like they were co-dependant.
What I took away from this article, was that the mind, body and spirit are very complex and individual, even in the case of genetics.
Joy
This article that you are reflecting on had so many things that were interesting to me as well. My twin sister and I are five minutes apart. I'm the "baby". My sister always took it upon herself to tell everyone that she was my "older" sister. As a child I just thought this was annoying due to the obvious, were twins! We were born on the same day! My sister was always the shy and timid one who couldn't go anywhere or do anything without me.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I haven't know a lot of twins in my life it has always been interesting to see how different they can be in personality but always seem to be complimentary to each other. There is definitely a special bond that twins have that no other people experience.
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