At Nine Months Old My Twins Make Each Other Laugh

Twin life

Rose Thompson
The Shortform
Published in
1 min readNov 27, 2023

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Photograph of twins taken by the Author.

When my son came along, it was just before the first UK lockdown. All the baby groups closed and most of my experience in seeing babies laugh involved adults doing silly things to amuse babies.

Now my son has twin sisters. When I heard raucous cackling in the living room the other day, I assumed that my partner was doing something funny…

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Rose Thompson
The Shortform

I am a writer, artist, film maker and social scientist. I have a PhD in psychology and am interested in how creativity and creatives work.