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[waltermonkey]

Meet Ab-n-Brit, the only living dicephalous conjoined twins. Two spines, two hearts, one leg and one arm each - but they can play softball, swim, legally drive. No one has any idea, neurologically, how

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[joyquality]

I read something about these girls several years ago, when they were just learning to ride a bike. The dad said "Abby, watch where you're going!" and Abby said "I don't need to, Brittany's watching for me!" (It might have been the other way around). I found that pretty astounding.

In the scene where they're talking about their favorite part of driving (24:14), each of them gets sort of embarrassed. When one of them is embarrassed, they both touch the embarrassed one's face. It's really strange.

[waltermonkey]

Yeah, that also struck me as a bizarre thing, the face-touching, because it means they're both picking up on tiny subliminal cues in the other's demeanor and reacting instantly.

Then I thought about it some more and realized, that's much less, as you put it, astounding than the fact that they learned how to walk when they were babies, just like everyone else.

[roninspoon]

I have a suspicion that there is considerably more shared limb responsiveness than the twins themselves are even aware of. I'd also be willing to bet that they get a little embarrassed or annoyed about questions relating to it, and are deliberately evasive at times.

[roninspoon]

I'm gonna go ahead and say that you never really get out of the most-awkward-phase-of-ones-life when you have two heads.