When I submitted a
quick pitch to The Guardian about my frustrations with some people’s reactions
to studying alongside my twin at university – I never expected it to be
published!
I am currently in my
second year at Birmingham City University where myself and my twin are on the
same course and living together. Of course, we’re used to the typical, often
unfunny comments though find it unbelievable that we still are at the receiving
end of twin harassment. We get people pointing in the street and crude comments on nights out. Though university opened a wide
range of new, almost prejudice?
We understand
completely that others may see our studying together as a restraint of our
independence. Then parts of me wonders; why? Why does a small part of our day
at uni being on the same course mean that we can’t too be independent people?
We’re not in every class together, we lead separate lives and have separate
friends. We are individuals.
To the people who
ask why we didn’t just go our separate ways. I ask, why should we have? Why
should one of us have jeopardised our place on a course that offers fantastic
facilities and is highly acclaimed in a city that we both love? It isn’t forced
that we have the same interests, it happens that they cross.
Anyway, enough
whinging.
Read the full
article here http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/13/twins-at-uni-we-look-alike-but-were-very-different-people
