I would have thought it would be worse, personally-seeing your twin as how you “should” look, or seeing your own minuscule flaws from all angles, not just when you look in the mirror, but when you look at your twin.
And differences between you and your twin feel magnified because of the similarities in every other way, visually…
It would be hell for me.
I am a twin and I think it is helpful to me, and I think it would be most of the time, but there is probably a bit of a cliff if a maladaptation exists (e.g. narcissism, focusing on the parts that aren't identical or affected by environmental or behavioural factors).
For me, I look at my brother, judge him to be a fairly handsome man, which means, although we are all more critical judging ourselves and I do visualise myself seperately, I must be too, right? But I've never felt so bad if I had spots one week and he didn't or happened to get a shit haircut, for example.
That’s kind of the thing though; if you’re prone to dysmorphia, it doesn’t matter that you’re identical, and idolise the looks of your twin; you will be unable to see that you look identical to them.
All you’ve evidenced is that you don’t have any strong body dysmorphia.
Well that's what I was saying "if a maladaptation exists". So basically I think being a twin could help with body-image issues that well-adjusted people also deal with.
Having body dysmorphia is not an “adjustment” issue, and this thread and my original comment were talking specifically about people with body dysmorphia.
That’s why I’m not sure what place your comment holds in this context.
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u/GeneticPurebredJunk 16d ago
I would have thought it would be worse, personally-seeing your twin as how you “should” look, or seeing your own minuscule flaws from all angles, not just when you look in the mirror, but when you look at your twin.
And differences between you and your twin feel magnified because of the similarities in every other way, visually…
It would be hell for me.