I'm not much like anyone else in my whole family. They're by and large very outgoing and sociable and into different things than I am. I don't even have a particularly consistent appearance. While my face has a lot of my mom's features (all female babies in my entire family on her side look almost identical until they reach they age of six or so), I don't have anyone else's colouring. My hair is naturally ash brown (I dye it bright red), and my eyes are green. No one else has these traits. I'm also left-handed, which I know can occur quite easily as a spontaneous thing but usually it involves having a parent or grandparent who was left-handed. So far as I know, I only had one great-grandfather who was a lefty and everyone--really, EVERYBODY--else is a righty. They also mostly wear glasses and I've never needed them. (Actually I probably do now, I'm starting to have a lot of trouble seeing at night, particularly bright lights--they blur together and feather horribly to the point where I can't tell where one car begins and another ends or what reflective street signs say until I'm too close to react if it turns out to be a problematic situation.)
But I still have enough traits in common with them that I can't reasonably speculate that I was switched at birth or something. For one thing, my parents and I are apt to display exactly the same abusive techniques.
Also, years ago my younger brother was an obsessive player of the online MMO 'RuneScape'. He always played a female character and messed with people who tried to chat him up thinking he was a girl. It always gave him a cruel little giggle to crush the dreams of hopeless nerds all over the internet.
The problem is that that sounds like something I would totally do. If I were a guy I'd be SO on that shit.
The odds are not especially good that two unrelated people will develop such eerily similar and completely fucking deranged senses of humour.
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