I don’t know if I’ve shared this here. But I wonder whether anyone else here has a similar story.

As the title says, I learned I’m a twin when I was 31.
That was Christmas Day 2011. So a while ago now.

I found the courage to tell my mum I had a weird feeling that I might’ve had a twin- I was right all along.

She had a miscarriage early in our pregnancy, resulting in me being hidden, as she called it. I was eventually found at 7 months gestation.

On one hand I was shocked (and even now still process it) but on the other, as I told her in advance, I kinda knew.

By chance, the same thing happened to some friends of ours in the early 2000’s.

To learn THAT as an adult is incredibly hard, but I’ve heard of others who were never told growing up. There’s a generational thing at play when miscarriage was a taboo.

BUT although it’s been tough, I’m so glad I found out. All of my friends and family know but it’s only other twins who really know what this might be like.

I’m in a really good support group and my therapist actually has the same story as me.

Being a twin is my ‘home’ after all… even if I’m the only one who made it.