Thanks, I didn’t think of that! Being female I assumed it was gynae related. I will bring the urinary idea up with my current GP at my next appointment. (I have a different doctor now for a bunch of reasons, that visit was the last straw.)

I blame kids books. They - especially older ones - always show fraternal boy-girl twins who look almost identical apart from the length of their hair. 

LOL!

Well to be fair the pregnancy *felt* like it was 3 years longer than it needed to be...

‘Afters’ is a common word in NZ and Australia, as well as Great Britain. I’m pretty surprised you haven’t heard it before!

I have twins. One looks about 2-3 years younger than her age; the other looks about 2-3 years older than her age. It’s not just height it’s also facial features, etc. We get stick about them being twins (“Really???” yes, really, arsehat; I gave birth to them one after the other that is not an experience you forget…

Yep. And if you’re fat or obese, then *really* forget it, because whatever it is was caused by your fatness and so all you really need to do is starve yourself into the acceptable range... then we *may* treat you. May. (Fuck no I’m not bitter!)

Not making light of your pain, but chiming in with a ‘female doctor ignored me’ story of my own; a few years back now I was filling up the car at the petrol station with my two toddlers when I started to feel an excruciating pain way down on one side of my pelvis (about where the ovary is). It was so bad my vision…

Oh Fuck Yes. As a kid/teen I had horribly painful periods, to the point where I often needed to take a day off school. OTC pain meds didn’t do much. NO doctor, male or female, would do anything for me, and only one ever showed any sign of sympathy (I kept getting “yeah periods are hard when they first start”). Finally…

You need a dictionary dear.

There’s either a head injury there, or some other huge disconnect between eyes and brain. Remarkable though either way.

I’m trying to image being that delusional, but I’m not a white male American so I’m having trouble with it.

You didn’t watch the video. It’s obvious to all of us who did, that you did not. 

Oh God that fucking word sends shivers down my spine! 

I remember having a discussion once with an elderly lady who insisted that fraternal twins of the same sex did not exist; all twins of the same sex were identical.

You’re identical? I hope no-one dressed you alike, unless you wanted it. I used to get a little pressure to do that even though mine are fraternal.

That, and there’s this kind of fairytale thing that goes along with twins where people see the cuteness of having two little people at once but ignore the extra work that comes along with that. I had one woman out of nowhere come up and bark in my face “Don’t you dare call them double trouble!!” I know all mums get…

My girls (both sets turned out to be female) don’t look anything alike, and the oldest setin particular don’t even really look like they’re related, so they get “OMG you’re *twins*? Since when??” Last year they both had the same maths teacher (different classes though) and it took him almost all year to realise they…

(So glad I wasn’t the only one who winced when I saw the size of that noggin!)

How about a cake stuffed with jelly babies. “What are we having?” “Oh yay a human baby - I *am* relieved!”