That's numeralist!
Today was, once again, a pretty uneventful day. We did watch more of the Inbestigators, though, and that show continues to be just the cutest most wholesome thing of all time. They even had a sort of anti-numeralism episode, which, as identical twins ourselves, we appreciated. Although it did seem a liiiittle bit too hung up on the idea that twins feel the same way about everything all the time, which is not true...although, in Athena and my case, we do share a lot of a opinions. But not all of them.
Maybe I should define "numeralism," since this context doesn't make it exactly clear. We mostly use it facetiously, because it's not really an issue. But it is kind of an issue sometimes. The first example we can think of is when we went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and they sold replicas(?) of the sweaters Mrs. Weasley made for Ron and Harry, but not the ones she made for Fred and George, even though those were the only ones (in the books) that actually had letters on them. Or how you could only buy Fred and George's wands as a set. ...I think that was the case. I might be remembering wrong. But whether it is the case or not, that would be numeralism.
It's like, when you write an Ouran High School Host Club quiz, and you count Hikaru and Kaoru as one character. ...Oh wait, we did that. But we're allowed to, because we're actual twins. And inasfar as they are a type of host, they are sort of just one type of host. Someone called us out on it, actually, and we appreciated her concern. We thought about writing a new quiz to see if you're Hikaru or Kaoru, but we had lost our quiz-writing momentum by then. Anyway, what we did is still numeralism.
In retrospect, we probably should have chosen a different -ism than numeral. Not that either of us can come up with a better word for it off the tops of our heads. At any rate, it's when twins (or triplets, or quadruplets, or anyone not a singleton) get treated differently because there's more than one of them. That's all.
Obviously it's not really an issue we get all up in arms about. It's mostly just like they talk about in the Inbestigators--people always asking questions, the most annoying of which being, "Which one's more [fill in the blank]?" or "Which one's better at [whathaveyou]?" The other questions don't bother us too much, actually, but it does make us feel like minor disappointments when we can't honestly answer that yes, we have an empathy link or whatever you want to call it. But we do have a funny story about that! I may have told on this LJ somewhere before, but it would have been years ago, so here it is again.
It's actually not about us. We were at church camp with a bunch of other kids from our stake waaaaaay back when, and wouldn't you know, there was another set of twins. Two, actually, but this story only involves one of them. People were asking the usual questions, and one of those questions was, "So if one of you gets hurt, will the other one feel it?" And the guy who got asked said, "I don't know, go hit my brother and we'll see." And, boys being boys, somebody did just that. So the first twin in question said, "No, I didn't feel it. Try hitting him harder!"
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch more Inbestigators, getting to buy some more Nutella cookies at the grocery store today, the weather not being too too hot, not automatically adding to the victim list when one of us gets physically hurt, and learning that in Australia they pronounce the name of the letter H with a non-silent H at the beginning.
Maybe I should define "numeralism," since this context doesn't make it exactly clear. We mostly use it facetiously, because it's not really an issue. But it is kind of an issue sometimes. The first example we can think of is when we went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and they sold replicas(?) of the sweaters Mrs. Weasley made for Ron and Harry, but not the ones she made for Fred and George, even though those were the only ones (in the books) that actually had letters on them. Or how you could only buy Fred and George's wands as a set. ...I think that was the case. I might be remembering wrong. But whether it is the case or not, that would be numeralism.
It's like, when you write an Ouran High School Host Club quiz, and you count Hikaru and Kaoru as one character. ...Oh wait, we did that. But we're allowed to, because we're actual twins. And inasfar as they are a type of host, they are sort of just one type of host. Someone called us out on it, actually, and we appreciated her concern. We thought about writing a new quiz to see if you're Hikaru or Kaoru, but we had lost our quiz-writing momentum by then. Anyway, what we did is still numeralism.
In retrospect, we probably should have chosen a different -ism than numeral. Not that either of us can come up with a better word for it off the tops of our heads. At any rate, it's when twins (or triplets, or quadruplets, or anyone not a singleton) get treated differently because there's more than one of them. That's all.
Obviously it's not really an issue we get all up in arms about. It's mostly just like they talk about in the Inbestigators--people always asking questions, the most annoying of which being, "Which one's more [fill in the blank]?" or "Which one's better at [whathaveyou]?" The other questions don't bother us too much, actually, but it does make us feel like minor disappointments when we can't honestly answer that yes, we have an empathy link or whatever you want to call it. But we do have a funny story about that! I may have told on this LJ somewhere before, but it would have been years ago, so here it is again.
It's actually not about us. We were at church camp with a bunch of other kids from our stake waaaaaay back when, and wouldn't you know, there was another set of twins. Two, actually, but this story only involves one of them. People were asking the usual questions, and one of those questions was, "So if one of you gets hurt, will the other one feel it?" And the guy who got asked said, "I don't know, go hit my brother and we'll see." And, boys being boys, somebody did just that. So the first twin in question said, "No, I didn't feel it. Try hitting him harder!"
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch more Inbestigators, getting to buy some more Nutella cookies at the grocery store today, the weather not being too too hot, not automatically adding to the victim list when one of us gets physically hurt, and learning that in Australia they pronounce the name of the letter H with a non-silent H at the beginning.