Do you notice a strong bond between your twins? Well, this man reckons that's not always a good thing.
Michael Cameron (23) from Australia admitted that he felt "liberated" when his twin brother David died, as it gave him a sense of "individualism" that he'd never felt before.
David took his own life when the pair were 16 and Michael said that he felt conflicted between his feelings of grief and relief.
On an upcoming episode of Aussie show SBS Insight, Michael said:
"All this is extremely unhealthy if you're an adolescent trying to figure out who you are. It seriously complicates that process of becoming your own person."
"I have fond positives in the death of my brother. It gave me something I had never had before and always craved - a sense of individualism."
He added: "It forced others but also me to see myself as my own man. Unexpected surges of relief would hit me for the next few months after his death and I was not sure why."
But Michael went on to feel guilty about his relief in subsequent years.
"The shame of that feeling was unspeakable and I could not even admit its existence to myself, let alone to anyone else," he said.
Michael revealed that he has embraced no longer being "two of a kind" and over the years he has made his peace with his feelings.
"I now feel unrestrained to do as I please without fear of copying or being copied, without that crushing feeling that I am no more than two of a kind," he said.
"I make no amends for how I feel. I do not wish to be the most bereaved person in the room or to justify to the world why my insides aren't dark and depressed 100% of the time."
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