I've encountered a few people that expressed scepticism that my sister and I were, well, sisters. Again, just rude.

I don't think we look particularly alike¹, but if you hang out with us for five minutes I think it's pretty damned obvious we were raised together.

¹: Though you'd be hard pressed to describe us distinctly.

Some people have said that my sister and I look nothing alike, and other people have said that we look exactly the same except for our coloring.

Though you'd be hard pressed to describe us distinctly.

But that's a whole nother thing -- people used to love to ask if a college friend and I were sisters, which was ridiculous for various reasons, but we really don't look anything alike. BUT you would have described us in the same way.

I posted a pic of my BFF and I for the silly "siblings week" on Facebook. We have been mistaken for sisters a lot. Also, when I work with her brother (he is a director) people who know he has a sister assume I am the sister. Possibly because in addition to looking alike, we grump at each other a lot.

In college, my BFF, myself and another girl got mistaken for sisters a lot. Not only are we all exactly the same age, the other girl is Jamaican/Italian and we are German /Italian. This may have been because we seemed to be the only three people at my college with brown hair.

Vortex, that's an imaginary pizza! Party isn't until next weekend. And um, sure.

I've been mistaken for a lot of things. Mostly by natives in eastern europe for one of them. Quelle surprise, I'm of swedish, german and anglo-irish descent and there's a lot that moved about prior to that. I've got pretty generic northwestern/central european features. But the utter weirdest was someone who insisted I must have a recent eastern native american ancestor. I think that person might've been delusional, because no one I know, including me, can extrapolate that from my features. Individual was very insistent and I don't get it. And to be really honest, the possible wayback lines through which that were possible? Way too racist to claim a child legitimate of such.

When I was in high school, people often thought my sister and I were twins. We are six years apart. I still can hear her answer to someone who asked how many months apart we were, without hesitation: "72".

In France, most common guesses as to my nationality were Italian and Swedish. That's right, Swedish.

In short, people are stupid.

My SIL looks more related to my brother than I do. When the 3 of us are out with the kids, 75% of the time, I'm assumed to be his wife & mom to the kids, my SIL his sister. We all recoil and assert the real relationships when this happens.

When you look at my sister and I--our skin tones are different, our lips and noses and eyes are easily described differently in comparison to each other. It's just not the stuff anyone thinks to use when describing us the first time (except maybe my big lips).

There was a girl at university with the both of us who looked like both of us. It was quite freaky. We both got mistaken for her--my sister would actually play along. She was our midpoint.

Never actually met her. She played rugby. I always thought she seemed cool, but, really, how much of that was arrogance?

We ended up in the same cafe once. We both watched each other in the mirror the whole time.

In France, most common guesses as to my nationality were Italian and Swedish.

I suspect there's only one person in the world who's Italian/Swedish: Isabella Rossellini.

Could be worse.

I suspect there's only one person in the world who's Italian/Swedish: Isabella Rossellini.

Well, and her twin.