Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hear That Agents Were Twins and We know ASL

All twins had their own language as babies and toddlers. Remember the freaky Law&Order:SVU episode? Well we had our own language according to our mother and therapists, but we grew up and forgot our language so therefore we had been trying for years to make our own unique way to communicate that was foreign to non "us" ears. With many attempts and years later we got it. American Sign Language! We knew basic signs as toddlers why not become more advance with it? This way we can sign to each other in class and don't have to worry about talking loudly. It's perfect. Might I say we are coming along at it well and it's fun. So big props to Signing for Kids by Mickey Flodin. It's an awesome introductory to learning sign language.

Yes We Dress Alike!

There are people who are all for twins dressing the same, then there are thoughs who frown upon it. We think let twins decide if they want to dress alike. Not all identicals are carbon copies of each other. We are separate people with our own function and style. We went through a phase where we dressed completely different. I(Joy) dressed like a boy and Cherish not so much. We were expressing ourselves and now we prefer to dress the same or similar.

What Cherish and I have in common is our style. We love simple clothing. That includes hoodies, jeans, t- shirts and polo shirts. Luckily for us we wear uniform to school so yeah, you get a double dose of us dressing the same. When we are not in uniform we try to get t- shirts and things in our signature pink(Joy) and purple(cherish). If we see something we both like and there are no alternative colors we buy it anyway. No big deal.

People say that's not fair, you both are giving us a reason to mix you two up. Not really! Just because we dress the same doesn't mean we are the same. I have locks and Cherish doesn't. Duh not exactly the same. I'll blog on that another time. I(Joy) wear pink glasses and Cherish black what's the same in that? Waiting. . . there is no similarity.

Us dressing alike is a choice. We know who we are so we don't need to dress different for identity purposes. We just want people to reconigze that although identical we can still dress the same and be different.