We began asking the TWIN birth order of all mirrors we met (10 sets - 4 female, 6 male) and found out that every left handed twin of the mirrors was born first, including me(Gary), I have been unable to find statistics of the number of left handed twins born first vs. right.

There are many hypothesis about the cause of mirrors including a statement that blames lack of oxygen and brain damage to the second birth as the cause for left handedness. We could not find a left handed mirror twin that was born second, so that theory goes out the window for out small research group.

Of the 50 + twins we questioned during the festival about handedness, we found no set of twins that were both left handed. All twins we questioned were both right handed or mirror.

Hope to see more data on mirrors soon.

Gary and Barry Murphy

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GM

I am trying to find information regarding their vision - One supposedly has 20/40 but the other is 20/20. I thought that mirror twins would have the same vision (but in the opposite eyes). Any ideas? Bit baffled! My twins are the middle boys of four -- I have a 11 year old and a 5 year old singleton boys too!

thanks, connie

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Originally posted by Gary Murphy:
Hello all you Mirrors!
We are another subset of twins more unique and different than the non mirrors. I/We (Barry and Gary Murphy) never met mirrors until we went to the 2004 Twinsburg festival last week. What a great surprise!

We began asking the TWIN birth order of all mirrors we met (10 sets - 4 female, 6 male) and found out that every left handed twin of the mirrors was born first, including me(Gary), I have been unable to find statistics of the number of left handed twins born first vs. right.

There are many hypothesis about the cause of mirrors including a statement that blames lack of oxygen and brain damage to the second birth as the cause for left handedness. We could not find a left handed mirror twin that was born second, so that theory goes out the window for out small research group.

Of the 50 + twins we questioned during the festival about handedness, we found no set of twins that were both left handed. All twins we questioned were both right handed or mirror.

Hope to see more data on mirrors soon.

Gary and Barry Murphy

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