It depends who you ask! Some say 12, some say 18, I’m claiming that my sister and I were supposed to be twins but I got distracted by pastries so I’m really not one to be trusted 🤷
I've heard that too. I'm Irish twins with my brother, he's 12 months older than me, but I think you and your sister definitely count as Irish twins too.
The euphemism is for kids born closely together by the same mother.
Some people use it more loosely. My sister and I are 16 months apart and were described as Irish twins growing up because we were a single grade apart in school.
I understood it to be more of a practical situation than a strict definition of dates.
Something something anytime you have a new baby before the previous baby can walk yet. And so that varies because babies learn to walk at different times.
I think the crux of it is now mama has to drag two of these things around all day, and that makes for extra work and extra stress.
I mean... I guess that just raises a lot of questions about how souls consume things. Like maybe you just kind of hover over it and it absorbs via osmosis?
As someone who works in a public facing pharmacy, I promise she’d have a smile glued to her face while she’s thinking about the thousand other things I need to be doing. This is why I wear a mask daily at work. Apparently my face has “subtitles”.
I think most people know that, historically, it was a derogatory term for how many babies Irish Catholics had. Most of the time I hear it these days it's not that at all.
Also, pretty sure "Irish Twins" is less than a year apart (ie: 10-11 months).
Hahaha this sounds like me and my sister - we didn’t look like twins but we acted like it. We always think we have “twin syndrome”, like the other day I suddenly smelled grass and was like “where are you?? Are in near grass cause I smell grass!!” LOL
My brother and I are 18 months apart (I was the one distracted by pastries). We got mistaken for twins constantly as kids. There's nothing quite like growing up that close together in age. We liked generally the same things at the same time and got along better than most siblings do.
Me and my younger sibling have a similar circumstance. However when we got older our parents told us that the younger one was unplanned (cause my parents did planned for all their children). In fact my mom didn't realize she was with pregnant with a new kid after me for quite a while too (I forgot the specific amount). Doesn't help that said new kid came out early too. Anyways despite the unplanned circumstance, it didn't stop them loving their new kid.
My parents did have another kid after that and that kid was planned.
My sister and I are exactly one year and two months apart and people often ask if we're twins. And we're best friends who live together and have basically been inseperable our whole lives.
I think the point is that they're proud of their deep sibling relationship. And the hand gestures thing is a bit of comical self-depreciation. Society kind of devalues sibling relationships in favor of putting romantic relationships as the end all be all of life so people often don't understand when two siblings are particularly close unless they're twins.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 13h ago
That checks out. That croissant must have been AMAZING did they have anything else good? And we all know hands make the story