Hi Friends,
I found this article titled, Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?, from the New York Times to be of interest and you might too. This is empathy to the max! I was fascinated by the shared vision and taste experiences. There is also mention of Christopher, a 6-year-old who has been told that he had a twin who died in the womb. The remnants of the twin, the doctors told his mother, were absorbed into his body, leaving only an unusual hairy patch on his back that still remains, the soft fuzzy shadow of a life that might have been. “If I don’t feel like being me, I can switch to how my twin feels,” Christopher told the author once, as he was playing a video game. “And if I’m mad, I can switch to how my twin feels. Then I can switch back to being me.” Heavy stuff for a 6-year-old, don’t you think? I sure hope they don’t do the reality show. I must warn you that the article is quite long. Here’s the link to it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html
Barbara M
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?
Hi Friends,
I found this article titled, Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?, from the New York Times to be of interest and you might too. This is empathy to the max! I was fascinated by the shared vision and taste experiences. There is also mention of Christopher, a 6-year-old who has been told that he had a twin who died in the womb. The remnants of the twin, the doctors told his mother, were absorbed into his body, leaving only an unusual hairy patch on his back that still remains, the soft fuzzy shadow of a life that might have been. “If I don’t feel like being me, I can switch to how my twin feels,” Christopher told the author once, as he was playing a video game. “And if I’m mad, I can switch to how my twin feels. Then I can switch back to being me.” Heavy stuff for a 6-year-old, don’t you think? I sure hope they don’t do the reality show. I must warn you that the article is quite long. Here’s the link to it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html
Barbara M
I found this article titled, Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?, from the New York Times to be of interest and you might too. This is empathy to the max! I was fascinated by the shared vision and taste experiences. There is also mention of Christopher, a 6-year-old who has been told that he had a twin who died in the womb. The remnants of the twin, the doctors told his mother, were absorbed into his body, leaving only an unusual hairy patch on his back that still remains, the soft fuzzy shadow of a life that might have been. “If I don’t feel like being me, I can switch to how my twin feels,” Christopher told the author once, as he was playing a video game. “And if I’m mad, I can switch to how my twin feels. Then I can switch back to being me.” Heavy stuff for a 6-year-old, don’t you think? I sure hope they don’t do the reality show. I must warn you that the article is quite long. Here’s the link to it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html
Barbara M
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