It’s Not You, It’s Me
thepointmag.com
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" Not coincidentally, twins are at strong risk of being objectified. First, we get reduced to our appearances: what matters most about us is how our bodies hit the senses. Second, we get treated as fungible: interchangeable with our fellow objects. Third, in many cases, our subjectivity is ignored. People don’t deny, exactly, that twins have rich and distinctive inner lives, just as sexists don’t deny, exactly, that hot young women do. But those lives often aren’t what’s interesting about us, and they’re easily glossed over. "
A lifetime of that means the twins are on a different plane of existence. We singletons can only imagine.
I have a pair of twins as sisters in law (who have a very different relationship than this pair) and even after more than 25 years of knowing them this article gave me insights about them.
Not only they don't have their emotional pair support, they also lost all their friends.
But, of course, there's a huge filter. People who wouldn't be able to stand that don't become immigrants in the first place.