I was called by brothers name....

Unfortunately, no. My sister is lovely and I am very plain. People used to confuse my two sons, though, especially when they were about 6 years old. They thought they were twins. They actually are "Irish" twins, less than a year apart. Sometimes people recognize others by their manner and actions rather than their faces, especially if they see them from behind.

Oh dear, I have been mistaken for my brother several times in school which is so embarrassing when you are not the same gender. We had very similar hair and features. Of course we now look much less alike. My husband looks very like his late brother.

What I get is worse. People see me and they think I'm a teacher Or worse a mother type. I am neither.All you can do is set them straight and move on.

Nope, that has never happen to me before.. haha =D Firstly, my brother is alot taller than me, and he's much more slimmer too.. hehe ^_^ 2ndly, he has got a kind of exotic look, while is so different from me, so plain looking, and ugly, according to someone.. lol =D And even if i'm walking along side with my brother, nobody will be able to guesss we are actually siblings!! lol =D

When my father remarried he married a woman who looked an awful lot like she could be my mom which is great but for some odd reason everytime I visit their town everyone thinks I am my step sister, and guess what we dont share parents at all.

Yes, ALL THE TIME! I have a twin sister tho that looks exactly like me, well that's what other people say but my family members doesnt think so and my close friends as well, specially my fiance. he never thought we were twins because he said, when he first saw me and my twin together, we never looked the same, we got similarities but not really identical. So i guess there are people who doesn't think we are twins, my best friend thought so as well when we first met. It happens to me and my sister all the time, specially when I go to some place and a lot of strangers talk to me and mistaken me for my sister, they always end up being embarrassed after I explain to them that I am my sister's twin and not her. It's really funny most of the time and i liked it, i get to know some of my sister's secrets.

This has happened to me a lot of times... Many times I was mistook for my brother and my brother also has experienced the same... I'll tell you one incident... One day I had to give my brother a little money when he was studying in college.. I couldn't meet him that evening, so I decided to go to his college and find him and give him the money that he needed... This was a big task, as I hadn't been to his college before and it would be tough to find the pharmacy dept., where he studied. Then I'd have to find his class and then find hime etc... It would take 2 hours, I told myself and prepared myself... Well, I went to the college, asked an official about the pharmacy dept. He directed me and I went there... When I entered the pharmacy dept., I found many people saying 'hi' and 'hello' to me... I wondered 'Whats going on?' Then one of the staff members of the college actually called me by my brother's name and then it dawned upon me that many of the people in the college had taken me for my brother. It was easy to locate him, once I told the officials that I was his elder brother (and not him!). I had prepared to spend 2 hours searching him. But I spent 2 hours seeing his college with him and talking to his friends.. . There have been many such incidents in my life, when people were unable to distinguish between me and my brother. We're not twins! He is 4 years younger to me. He is fairer than me... Our height is almost equal and so is our body structure... Guess, that's why people still find it hard... :) Happy lotting!

it happened to me in my college days..my sister was very thin compared to me, but still don't know what people found and many times her friends used to pat on my back as if they have suddenly found their friend..... i was shocked when it happened first time....but then i became habituated...now after marriage....things have gone opposite...she has gained weight and i am as i was...no changes....there are some family characters...sometimes people also ask whether u are daughter of this and this person....

Hi, ronaldinu! How wonderful to see ourselves as we are, no matter how others may see us. My sister is incredibly beautiful, and we don't look as if we even know each other. On the phone, though, nobody could ever tell us apart, as we have the same voice. At least I think so. We haven't spoken or seen each other in decades!

Hi ronaldinu, i have two brothers who are chalk and cheese, but people always mistook them for each other, its just a family resembleance, but they hate it. Tamara

No it never happened to me, there were only two of us, me and my brother and since I was his sister not much chance of confusion. However I have been mistaken often for others, the older I get the worse it gets, I guess all us little old ladies look alike.

Ah yes. Those are the moments. Like you, I have been mistaken to be my brother. Who is 5 inches taller, almost 75 pounds heavier and about 7 years older. I was annoyed at this at first when I was growing up. But then I figured it must've been his influence on people. He was smart like me. More handsome. But he wasn't as loud all out like me. But I have to say he was older than me and was always the first to go out all over town building his own name. I followed a little later. So everyone mistook me for him and I found that very strange unless we were twins. I always get that "Hey there, you're Ruben right?" line or something like that. And many times I reply kindly "No, I'm his younger brother". Then I get an also annoying reply "Oh you're the brother who roughs people". Damn even they have a false impression of me. I only rough up people who take advantage of the weaker ones. Lol. Imagine that doing all your life. But to my closer friends they know me better as totally different from my older brother. These days, I don't get much of the mistaken brother thingy. I've built my own image thru the years but yeah sometimes it still does happen but not as often as 20 years ago.

It’s a strange thing because I don’t believe my sister and I look alike at all because she resembles our mother a lot whereas I look a lot like our father, yet we were in the supermarket together once and this young guy smiled at us and said, “You too must be sisters!” we replied that we don’t look alike but he disagreed. I guess there must be a family resemblance even if we are not aware of it. We put it down to our eyes, that is the only thing we have that is alike, maybe it’s the same with you and your brother like the security guard at your bank said.

Oh many times, and sometimes it`s even gotten to the extreme. Sometimes it eventually lead to being mad at my dad. We`ve had problems ever since me and my brother "look alike". It's kind of odd how people say people look alike but don't. It's even come to the point where my dad can't tell the difference between us and can't even tell how old we are because he doesn't know which son he's talking to. But I've gotten used to it.

hi ronaldinu you must really resemble your brother more than you think. I am sure I do not look at all like my younger sister but have had the unpleasant happening of someone thinking I was her. I got this. "who told you you could take courses here",I was applying at the junior college at the time. I looked at the woman clerk. I said, I beg your pardon.what did you say? She looked at me and said, you are retarded, so why are you even here? I restrained my temper. I said, I have an iq of 150, thats not retarded. she colored and said, arent you Mary Clark? I said, No I am her married older sister Patsie Hatley. My sister was actually more brain damaged at birth than retarded but the results were she had a very low IQ and was definitely handicapped. but even if she had been the one applying that would not have excused the clerk from being so rude. .,

I've gotten called by my younger sisters name often - however she gets my name much more often. And we do look very similar. The thing is we never really bother to correct them because we know atleast they have a general idea whos family we belong to.