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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have fraternal BG twins, as well as a singleton who is 11 months older. Yes, it is busy!

I've had some dumb and inappropriate comments/questions, and I'm curious if other parents of multiples have also heard similar remarks, or maybe even ones more bizarre than the ones I've heard.

I'll start with a list of just a few:

[b]1. Are they natural? [/b] No, they are plastic.

[b] 2. Are they identical? [/b] They are BG twins. They look nothing alike. They are not identical.

[b] 3. Did you plan to have twins? [/b] Does anyone PLAN to have twins?

[b] 4. Are they triplets? (Asking while looking at my six-month-old infants and a walking toddler) [/b] Yes, this one, the one who can walk, is just advanced.

[b] 5. Did you use IVF? [/b] How is that your business?

[b]6. You have your hands full! [/b] Do I?

[b]7. Are they all yours? [/b] I gave birth to them, so I think so!

[b]8. Why don't they have rhyming names? [/b] Because we didn't name them as a "set." They are two separate people.

[b] 9. Do you have help? [/b] Are you offering?

[b]10. Did you nurse them? [/b] Why does that matter?

[b] 11. How did you get a boy and a girl? [/b] We put in a specific order from Amazon.

[b] 12. They look normal. You must not have delivered them early.[/b] Normal? What does that mean?

[b]13. How do you tell them apart? [/b] One is a boy and one is a girl. One has brown hair and one has red hair. One is significantly larger than the other. Additionally, I am their mom. It isn't exactly challenging to tell them apart.

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Wow, you sound awful.  Lighten up, people are just trying to make conversationand this is better than "the weather is supposed to change tomorrow" or something similar.[/quote]

Most of these are not socially-appropriate topics of conversation with strangers. #1, #3, #5, #8, #10 #11, and #12 are particularly weird or rude to say to a stranger.  [/quote]

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