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<p>Everyone loves identical twin hijinks&mdash;that&#39;s why Mary Kate and Ashley and both Lindsay Lohans had careers as kids. The only people who don&#39;t find mixups funny, however, are the parents of identical twins, who lie awake at night worrying whether or not they got the names right after the hospital.</p><p>Parents of doubles are <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/epis01/parents_of_identical_twins_what_was_your_honey_i/">sharing their stories on Reddit,</a> and it&#39;s only a matter of time before they&#39;re adapted into Disney Channel Original Movies.</p><h2>1. I hope one of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OtherPassage/">OtherPassage</a>&#39;s twins has a mohawk.</h2><blockquote> <p>I have identical twin boys, adults now. As a parent you really always do know who is who.<br /> But I did lose one once in a playground because I thought it was the same kid twice. They were about 4 years old, going up and down the slide. I was sitting on a park bench about 10 feet away reading a book but still watching them. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye I see one of them running towards the entrance, about 40 feet away. I was so confused. I had been watching one son going up and down the slide, thinking it was both of them. He was just doing it fast! It scared me so much I gave them two different haircuts the next week so it couldn&#39;t happen again, which turned out to be a great thing because now everyone could tell them apart. Except outside in the winter, because hats.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_and_tired/">Old_and_tired</a>, you&#39;re doing a great job, old pal.</h2><blockquote> <p>My twin boys are 13 now. I&#39;ve never mixed them up but when they were younger I used to address them with very generalized words like &quot;son&quot; and &quot;buddy&quot;</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Spontanemoose/">Spontanemoose</a> is #blessed.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandmother baptized the same kid twice.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>4. It&#39;s easy to prank <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ZotDragon/">ZotDragon</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>We distinguished our identical twins usually through different colored outfits, but as a back up we used blue toenail polish on the big toes of one boy.</p> <p>One day we have them in similar but not identical outfits and my wife is bragging to friends that she can tell them apart. She takes off the socks of the boy she has identified as &quot;A&quot;. Blue toenails. It&#39;s &quot;B&quot;. Wife starts to panic. Our tween daughter starts laughing. She switched the boys without my wife knowing.</p> <p>Good times.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>4. Everyone&#39;s confused in the middle of the night, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/graceland3864/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">graceland3864</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>I have identical twin boys. In 3rd grade, Twin A stayed home sick. His name was called to win an award during an assembly and Twin B accepted it for him and no one knew the difference.</p> <p>It&#39;s hard to tell who&#39;s who in baby pictures unless it is a picture of the two of them. The features I use to tell them apart need to be compared.</p> <p>The closest I ever came to a switch is when Twin A crawled in my bed in the middle of the night. I thought it was Twin B. I woke up several times because he was restless. In the morning when I realized I&#39;d been thinking it was the wrong twin all along it was the weirdest feeling.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MiscLisa/">MiscLisa</a> has a color code.</h2><blockquote> <p>In the middle of the night when they were little babies I nursed and changed one baby twice thinking I had done both.</p> <p>When they were babies their colors were white and green and now that they are school aged they have grown out of the colors. A few months back I took them to a museum and the entire time I thought they weren&rsquo;t behaving or listening very well. About three hours into the day I realized that Green boy was dressed in a white shirt and White boy was dressed in green. I had reverted back to when they were babies/toddlers and called them by the wrong names all day just from looking at their shirts. Poor guys were as frustrated as I was!</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>6. Wishes come true, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LucyTraded/">LucyTraded</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>I took my two sons to the optometrist to get their eyes checked. One of the twins needed glasses. The other didn&#39;t. So I ordered the glasses, but when I got them I forgot which twin needed them so I asked them. (Keep in mind the twin that didn&#39;t need glasses wanted them for some reason) So the twin that didn&#39;t need glasses said they were for him. Long story short the glasses ended up straining his eyes and now they both need glasses.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>7. You do NOT want to prank the State Department, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/manofsteel911/">manofsteel911</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>We went to the passport office to get passport for our kids and I attached the photo of one kid on both forms. Apparently the lady on counter thought it was suspicious and spouse was outright mad. Kids thought it was funny.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bandito210/">bandito210</a> is off to a good start.</h2><p>My twins are less than a year old, so it&#39;s mostly been innocent stuff, like calling one the other&#39;s name, putting them in the wrong cribs, or mixing up the bottles. They&#39;ve survived so far, so we&#39;ll take it.</p><hr /><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/binarystar45/">binarystar45</a>&#39;s story about being a twin is too good not to include.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m an identical twin.</p> <p>My favorite story to tell is when we were two or three and the doctor looked in my ears instead of those of my brother, who had been crying about his ears hurting.</p> <p>&ldquo;Yeah, that&rsquo;s an ear infection.&rdquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;....that&rsquo;s the wrong twin. This one is the one who&rsquo;s in pain.&rdquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;Well, this one has an ear infection.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NachoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo0/">NachoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo0</a> will only ber nervous about this for the rest of her life.</h2><blockquote> <p>Mom of identicals here. Not really one moment --yet-- but I had them by c-section and for some reason it&#39;s always bothered me that I may have gotten them mixed up when we finally took the hospital bracelets off. They had no real differences as infants so I think about that at least 5 times a day. They&#39;re 4 now.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

10 parents of identical twins share stories of getting the kids mixed up.

Everyone loves identical twin hijinks&mdash;that&#39;s why Mary Kate and Ashley and both Lindsay Lohans had careers as kids. The only people who don&#39;t find mixups funny, however, are the parents of identical twins, who lie awake at night worrying whether or not they got the names right after the hospital.Parents of doubles are sharing their stories on Reddit, and it&#39;s only a matter of time before they&#39;re adapted into Disney Channel Original Movies.1. I hope one of OtherPassage&#39;s twins has a mohawk. I have identical twin boys, adults now. As a parent you really always do know who is who. But I did lose one once in a playground because I thought it was the same kid twice. They were about 4 years old, going up and down the slide. I was sitting on a park bench about 10 feet away reading a book but still watching them. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye I see one of them running towards the entrance, about 40 feet away. I was so confused. I had been watching one son going up and down the slide, thinking it was both of them. He was just doing it fast! It scared me so much I gave them two different haircuts the next week so it couldn&#39;t happen again, which turned out to be a great thing because now everyone could tell them apart. Except outside in the winter, because hats. 2. Old_and_tired, you&#39;re doing a great job, old pal. My twin boys are 13 now. I&#39;ve never mixed them up but when they were younger I used to address them with very generalized words like &quot;son&quot; and &quot;buddy&quot; 3. Spontanemoose is #blessed. My grandmother baptized the same kid twice. 4. It&#39;s easy to prank ZotDragon. We distinguished our identical twins usually through different colored outfits, but as a back up we used blue toenail polish on the big toes of one boy. One day we have them in similar but not identical outfits and my wife is bragging to friends that she can tell them apart. She takes off the socks of the boy she has identified as &quot;A&quot;. Blue toenails. It&#39;s &quot;B&quot;. Wife starts to panic. Our tween daughter starts laughing. She switched the boys without my wife knowing. Good times. 4. Everyone&#39;s confused in the middle of the night, graceland3864. I have identical twin boys. In 3rd grade, Twin A stayed home sick. His name was called to win an award during an assembly and Twin B accepted it for him and no one knew the difference. It&#39;s hard to tell who&#39;s who in baby pictures unless it is a picture of the two of them. The features I use to tell them apart need to be compared. The closest I ever came to a switch is when Twin A crawled in my bed in the middle of the night. I thought it was Twin B. I woke up several times because he was restless. In the morning when I realized I&#39;d been thinking it was the wrong twin all along it was the weirdest feeling. 5. MiscLisa has a color code. In the middle of the night when they were little babies I nursed and changed one baby twice thinking I had done both. When they were babies their colors were white and green and now that they are school aged they have grown out of the colors. A few months back I took them to a museum and the entire time I thought they weren&rsquo;t behaving or listening very well. About three hours into the day I realized that Green boy was dressed in a white shirt and White boy was dressed in green. I had reverted back to when they were babies/toddlers and called them by the wrong names all day just from looking at their shirts. Poor guys were as frustrated as I was! 6. Wishes come true, LucyTraded. I took my two sons to the optometrist to get their eyes checked. One of the twins needed glasses. The other didn&#39;t. So I ordered the glasses, but when I got them I forgot which twin needed them so I asked them. (Keep in mind the twin that didn&#39;t need glasses wanted them for some reason) So the twin that didn&#39;t need glasses said they were for him. Long story short the glasses ended up straining his eyes and now they both need glasses. 7. You do NOT want to prank the State Department, manofsteel911. We went to the passport office to get passport for our kids and I attached the photo of one kid on both forms. Apparently the lady on counter thought it was suspicious and spouse was outright mad. Kids thought it was funny. 8. bandito210 is off to a good start.My twins are less than a year old, so it&#39;s mostly been innocent stuff, like calling one the other&#39;s name, putting them in the wrong cribs, or mixing up the bottles. They&#39;ve survived so far, so we&#39;ll take it.9. binarystar45&#39;s story about being a twin is too good not to include. I&rsquo;m an identical twin. My favorite story to tell is when we were two or three and the doctor looked in my ears instead of those of my brother, who had been crying about his ears hurting. &ldquo;Yeah, that&rsquo;s an ear infection.&rdquo; &ldquo;....that&rsquo;s the wrong twin. This one is the one who&rsquo;s in pain.&rdquo; &ldquo;Well, this one has an ear infection.&rdquo; 10. NachoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo0 will only ber nervous about this for the rest of her life. Mom of identicals here. Not really one moment --yet-- but I had them by c-section and for some reason it&#39;s always bothered me that I may have gotten them mixed up when we finally took the hospital bracelets off. They had no real differences as infants so I think about that at least 5 times a day. They&#39;re 4 now. 

Everyone loves identical twin hijinks&mdash;that&#39;s why Mary Kate and Ashley and both Lindsay Lohans had careers as kids. The only people who don&#39;t find mixups funny, however, are the parents of identical twins, who lie awake at...