Amazingly normal: Sisters with 1 body, 2 heads live it up

Emirates 24/7 ^ | Saturday, August 11, 2012

[thulldud]

If they each found themself in a separate, complete, fully functional body they would likely suffer from severe separation anxiety.

After being conjoined all their lives as they have, you can be sure of it. The original Siamese twins considered getting separated in order to get married, and they had the money and the doctor to do it. They decided against it because they could not imagine being apart.

(Well, they actually could imagine it...that was the trouble. It scared them completely out of having the operation!)

[thulldud]

Also, imagine the coordination when it comes to steering.

And I betcha they can use the HOV lane anytime they want!

[Larry Lucido]

The vagina would have to be occupied on a time-share basis.

[mamelukesabre]

The pressure to perform would be double! You’d have twice as much anger to deal with if they weren’t satisfied. You’d have twice as much foreplay requirements before getting busy. I think most guys would pass once the novelty wore off...which would probably happen after 5 minutes.

[momtothree]

“... their adaptation to it and their every day behavior is very normal and very human”.

Actually, I think their adaptation to their condition is above normal. I don’t know how many other people could decide to learn to drive, go to school, travel etc... knowing full well that they would be stared at (and yes, some mean people would probably point and laugh). Their human spirit just seems extraordinary to me. Bless them for what they have endured and risen above.

[grey_whiskers]

This really would be the only case I could think of that would legitimately support the claim that "Heather has two Mommies."

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like, “when they (the other twin and the guy) where into it, I just went to sleep.

No biggie. Apparently lots of women do that even without being conjoined in the first place.

Cheers!

[RegulatorCountry]

Gives a different perspective to a culture we perhaps too often assume was racist and backward.

What's this "we" business? You mean you, and people who think as you do. Speak for yourself. Would you be surprised to learn that there were Jewish people and free black people here in the antebellum era, too?

At least you learned something tonight. That's always a good thing.

[Sherman Logan]

I used “we” as shorthand for “the American people,” whose perspective on the South is based largely on its portrayal in the media.

Which I assume you will agree does indeed portray the prewar South as racist and backward.

[RegulatorCountry]

Name the enlightened region from which you hail that is historically free from racial bias, Sherman Logan. You've clearly spent entirely too much time at the knee of Marxist academics. The American south was not the sole bastion of human bondage in this country, let alone the world, and that practice did not end with the defeat of the Confederacy. Bias against black people was not uniquely southern, either. I'm really not certain just what point it is that you sought to make, but you only succeeded in regurgitating ignorant bias of your own.

[Sherman Logan]

You obviously have a bee up your butt. My comment was with regard to the common perception, not necessarily my own belief. I did not claim that the perception was accurate, merely that it is widespread.

Do you disagree that it is a common perception? If you do agree that there is a common perception of the South as racist, what is your argument with me?

In fact, my original comment was pointing out that the Engs’ experience in North Carolina indicates this common perception may be less than fully accurate. Do you disagree with that? Why would you object to my pointing out that the common perception of the South of the time as racist may be somewhat incomplete?

[RegulatorCountry]

Continue to question your prior assumptions, Sherman Logan. That is the best suggestion I can provide.

[Bellflower]

But, the fact is that these girls will never successfully marry, they will never have a "normal" job, they will always have severe limitations that most other people won't experience.

We do not know that they will not successfully marry. They may have limitations in some areas, but in other areas their lives may be far more varied and interesting than many other people's lives. They have already traveled in Europe, which is something that I never have done. They have many good friends and a loving family, which many "normal" people cannot boast.

It looks like their lives, though not "normal", may be of a higher quality and greater good than many other people's who would be considered "normal". I don't think we have to feel sorry for them at all, as they seem very well adjusted and quite happy, which is something that many, many people are not. Their handicap seems to have worked in their lives to help them become strong and resilient, because they have not let it stop them from being happy.

[fwdude]

We do not know that they will not successfully marry.

Give me a break. They share a body, including the private "marriage-relevant" part. How is that going to work?

The emperor has no clothes, and apparently, a lot of FReepers are pretending that he does.

[a fool in paradise]

Conjoined twins have married (and voted) in the past. Look up the Hilton Sisters from the 1920s-1960s for one example. Then there are the “Siamese Twins” (the Ing brothers?).