Matching outfits, looking alike and identical personalities are all things that come to mind when one thinks of twins, but not every set of twins is truly identical. As a child, there really isn’t a choice of what you want to wear, but as you get older, it’s easier to make your own decisions.

Siblings can be irritating, but can you imagine having one that looks almost exactly like you?

“It’s annoying having a twin brother, if I have to go somewhere he always feels the need to follow me,” Freshman Ava Colorito said. As Colorito stated, there can be many perspectives of being a twin.

“I like going through every situation together because we can always relate to each other,” Freshman Justin Eaton said about his twin sister, Kayla Eaton. According to news.discovery.com, one in every 30 U.S. babies are a twin and that number has skyrocketed over the last 29 years. Being a twin creates general assumption that both children will go through school together receiving the same grades, but that is in no way true at all. Everyone is born with a different personality and a different way of approaching life; including twins.

“People call me Josh and think we are the same exact person, when we aren’t,” Senior Zach Kugel said. Picture being a parent and having two copies of the same looking person running around the house, how does one react? There has to be some way to distinguish them, but calling them the wrong name could become a problem in the future.

“We always get comments saying ‘I don’t know how you do it’, but to me it’s the coolest thing in the world to have twin daughters,” Mr. Christopher Coennen, Freedom High Schools’ Physical Education teacher, said. Coennen’s daughters, Karissa Ruth, who is the oldest sister by four minutes, and Corinne Morgan both turned two in July.

There are several sets of twins in FHS including: Seniors Zachary and Joshua Kugel, Sophomores Madeline and Meghan Kiefer, Michael and Christian Kraus and Hunter and Austin Yeck along with Freshmen Dante and Ava Colorito, Justin and Kayla Eaton, Thomas and Justa Frisco and Jacklyn and Jordan Hartle. FHS also has a set of triplets: Freshmen Haley, Paige and Mason Velemirovich.

In a world that’s full of twins, it’s easy to call them by the wrong name and stereotype them: but just remember that twins are normal people too. Some twins have different relationships than others, so it’s always nice to see the interaction between siblings that are born so close together. Some have different interests and really have distinct personalities and others are able to go everywhere and do everything together. Remember, think twice before calling a twin by their name, you will never want to get it wrong.